Senior Software Engineer

Our leading-edge Agile team in the engineering group is looking for a motivated and energetic Senior Software Engineer who is eager to learn and make big changes to our mission critical applications. This is an exciting time to join as we continue to rapidly expand and look for new ways to improve our architecture and solution offerings to serve the millions of customers around the globe. Your opportunities for achievement are limitless with SquareTrade/Allstate. We embrace a fast-paced Agile XP environment where we practice pair programming and TDD. Youll have the opportunity to work with the engineering leads product and design teams as well as other developers to deliver applications which are scalable secure robust and highly performing. We adopt microservices architecture distributed technologies latest frontend frameworks and sophisticated monitoring tools.

Key responsibilities

• Participates in iteration planning meetings infusing backlogs with technical input
• Designs develops and maintains secure scalable and high-performance microservices and APIs using modern frameworks (e.g. Java Spring Boot Kafka ElastiCache)
• Performs continuous integration continuous delivery and continuous deployment pipelines on AWS and Microsoft Azure
• Monitors in production and improves system performance reliability and scalability
• Adopts XP methodology and practices paired programming and test-driven development (TDD) daily
• Participates in daily standups code reviews and retrospectives

Qualifications :

• Bachelors in Computer Science or related majors is REQUIRED
• 5 years of professional software development experience with a successful track record
• Strong proficiency in Java Spring Boot Kafka and microservices framework
• Hands-on experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and writes high-quality testable code
• Comfortable working in a pair-programming (XP) environment
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Github
• Familiarity with build pipeline such as Jenkins

Nice to have

• Familiarity with cloud and hybrid environments including Azure AWS and on-prem systems
• Familiarity with web related technologies such as Angular JavaScript CSS
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines Docker Kubernetes and DevOps practices
• Experience in the warranty insurance fintech or e-commerce domains

Additional Information :

At SquareTrade youll have access to:  

• Medical dental and vision coverage with network optionality and the ability to contribute to a savings account (HSA or FSA)   
• Up to 4% company match into 401(k) and contributions into your company-sponsored pension 
• $75/month budget to help prioritize your physical wellbeing 
• $80/month stipend to subsidize connectivity costs 
• Mental health resources including free 1:1 therapy coaching sessions and digital resources 
• Supportive leave policies 
• Flexible Time Off Policy in addition to 9 Company Holidays 
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5250 per year to further your personal educational advancement desires 
• Hybrid work arrangements with regular investment in gatherings/offsites to spend time together as team 
• Various corporate perks and discounts 

This role is a hybrid role associated with our Bay Area Office or Denver CO office.

SquareTrade estimates the possible base compensation for this role if hired in the San Francisco Bay Area California to be in the range : $160K - 190K

SquareTrade estimates the possible base compensation for this role if hired in the Denver Colorado to be in the range : $145K - 165K

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time