Senior Product Engineer (Hybrid)

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Your role in the team

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Senior Product Engineer to join our dynamic team. The Product Engineer will be responsible for the design, development, and enhancement of our products. The role is pivotal in ensuring product agility, quality, and user satisfaction. In this Agile environment, you'll own the end-to-end development of backend services, following test driven development and XP practices. They own and manage running their application in production, and ultimately becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs.

Key Responsibilities

• Participates in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team backlog.
• Participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.
• Participates in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product.
• Collaborates within the team in designing systems and apps.
• Practices daily paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products.
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices.
• Provides support for software products in user environments.
• Serves as an expert on a specific business domain and demonstrates leadership and accountability in all forums including ECC (Production Support Calls) and SWAT calls.
• Provides input into the design of the product, collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way.
• Participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the team.
• Coaches more junior team members around different technologies and XP practices.
• Using APM tools to monitor/investigate production issues.

Key Skills & Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in Java/J2EE development, with exposure to REST API design and implementation using IntelliJ IDEA.
• 2+ years of experience with Spring Framework, ReactJS, and NodeJS.
• Exposure to tools like GitHub for version control, and basic knowledge of monitoring tools like Splunk (or similar APM/logging tools).
• Basic understanding of databases such as Oracle or MongoDB; ability to write queries and work with data.
• Comfortable working in Agile environments, with familiarity in Test-Driven Development (TDD) and collaborative coding practices.
• All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins.
• Understanding of DevOps principles or interest in cloud technologies.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job does not have supervisory duties.

Job Posting End Date: Wednesday 23th April 11:59pm

Joining our team isn't just a job - it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good.

You'll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, we've proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live.

Good Hands. Greater Together.

What we offer:

As Digital DNA's Workplace of the Year 2020 & 2022 winners, we offer a generous benefits package that includes flexible annual leave entitlement, dental and healthcare insurance, an attractive pension package and discounts on gym memberships, public transport and parking.

Allstate invests heavily in your development; as an employee, you will have access to multiple world-class learning platforms and courses from our award-winning in-house Learning & Development team.

We pride ourselves in providing clear career paths and opportunities for internal mobility allowing you to further develop within the organisation.

We encourage a better work life balance and you'll have the opportunity to apply for various flexible working arrangements.

Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities:

Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit.

Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.

Posting End Date: 17 April 2025