Software Engineer (All Levels)

Summary

Allstate is an insurance company focused on protecting families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties through innovative products and services. Software Engineers across Consultant II through Lead levels build and enhance digital products across frontend and backend systems, owning the full software development lifecycle. Responsibilities expand from hands-on development and collaboration to technical leadership, cross-product influence, and strategic partnership.

Responsibilities

• Participate in iteration planning to ensure shared understanding of stories and backlog items
• Engage in daily stand-ups across site, cross-site, and product teams
• Contribute to retrospectives and implement feedback to improve team performance
• Design, develop, test, and maintain applications across the full stack with guidance as needed
• Practice paired programming and test-driven development (TDD) to deliver high-quality code
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and continuous delivery practices
• Troubleshoot and support software products in user environments
• Collaborate closely with team members and actively participate in knowledge sharing
• Apply foundational engineering principles to solve well-defined problems
• Execute against product and enterprise strategies with a strong customer-centric mindset
• Contribute to technical decision-making, balancing simplicity, scalability, and performance
• Work more independently on complex features and system components
• Mentor and support junior engineers to elevate overall team capability
• Actively contribute to team knowledge and engineering best practices
• Significant contributions to inceptions, injecting technical strategy into backlogs
• Partner with product managers and stakeholders to align engineering and business strategies across products
• Serve as a domain expert and advocate for modern technology stacks and architectural best practices
• Drive cross-product collaboration and influence engineering direction across teams
• Coach engineers in TDD, paired programming, and agile practices
• Lead retrospectives with a focus on continuous improvement and team effectiveness
• Set technical direction and guide complex system design decisions

Skills

• Consultant II: 1+ years of experience
• Sr. Consultant I & II: 3+ years of experience
• Lead: 5+ years of experience with demonstrated technical leadership
• Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals and object-oriented design
• Must have experience working with (Java/Spring, JavaScript, and React)
• Backend development experience including APIs, databases (relational/NoSQL), caching, and messaging systems
• Frontend experience building responsive web or mobile applications
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Consultant II: 1+ years of experience
• Sr. Consultant I & II: 3+ years of experience
• Lead: 5+ years of experience with demonstrated technical leadership
• Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals and object-oriented design
• Must have experience working with (Java/Spring, JavaScript, and React)
• Backend development experience including APIs, databases (relational/NoSQL), caching, and messaging systems
• Frontend experience building responsive web or mobile applications
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position

Benefits

• Fully Remote
• Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.
• Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.