Product Software Engineers - (Multiple levels) - Hybrid in Belfast

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. For more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. Your role in the team Allstate Information Security is advancing its embedded security product strategy by launching three new engineering teams dedicated to building security controls seamlessly integrated into Allstate's technology ecosystem. This is an opportunity for a product engineer to build tools for other product engineers to improve the security and developer experience of Allstate's SDLC and platforms.

The Product Engineer architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. They own and manage running their application in production and ultimately become accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs. Product Engineers at Allstate are considered Software Engineers who take pride in building solutions without compromise-demonstrating an unwavering commitment to both developer friendliness and security.

The Security Engineering group this position would be a part of is tasked with developing security controls as digital products that enhance or contribute to the enhancement of security within Allstate.

Key responsibilities:

• Participate in the ideation of security controls that challenge the status quo and push the organization to a higher level of embedded security.
• Demonstrate technical skills and aptitude needed to meet/exceed delivery velocity expectations as a full stack developer.
• Actively learn different technologies as needed for delivery of stories.
• Deliver on all phases of development work from initial kick-off, technical setup, application development, and support.
• Embrace approach of making collaborative, fast, local decisions; then course correct as/if needed (test/learn/iterate).
• Active participation in regular agile meetings (e.g., site standup, product team standup, iteration planning meeting, retrospective, lunch & learns).
• Utilizing Paired programming.
• Leveraging Test-Driven Development.
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices.
• Daily interactions and open communication channels with you and your Managing Engineer.
• Participate in high-level and low-level component and system designs.
• Partners in collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders.

Essential Skills:

• A minimum of 3 years' experience delivering production grade applications using (Java, Python, .NET, JavaScript etc) with measurable impact (e.g., improved performance, reduced incidents).
• Familiarity with the tools such as, Intellij-IDE or equivalent, Git and REST APIs.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines that reduced deployment time and increased release frequency without compromising quality.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies (especially Agile XP), including paired programming and test-driven development.
• Hands on experience architecting and deploying distributed systems in the cloud including MicroServices architectures, achieving scalability and uptime targets.

Additional criteria for Lead and Expert level:

• A minimum of 1 years' experience coaching or mentoring engineers with evidence of improving team capability.
• Proven ability to lead technical design and architecture decisions for complex, distributed systems, resulting in measurable improvements in scalability, security, or performance.
• Track record of driving cross-team collaboration to deliver integrated solutions, achieving alignment across multiple product portfolios.

Desirable Skills:

• Familiarity with OWASP top 10 and MITRE attack framework.
• Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML.
• Experience with behavioral driven development.
• Knowledge of LLMs and Machine Learning.
• Knowledge of AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Cursor) and ability to leverage them for productivity gains.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

There are no supervisory responsibilities for this role.

Why join us?

Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate's European Digital Centre of Excellence-recent winners of 'Best Use of Cloud Services' at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards 2024, and recognised for our community and sustainability impact at the 2024 Business in the Community Awards and Gold accreditation for Environmental Responsibility. We're a product-driven, cloud-first organisation delivering real outcomes through modern technology, a digital product-centric talent model, and a culture rooted in engineering excellence. Our teams work in cross-functional structures, guided by an outcome-based delivery approach that accelerates speed, agility, and value.

We offer:

• A generous, flexible benefits package including annual leave, healthcare and dental cover, pension, and lifestyle discounts.
• Access to world-class learning platforms and award-winning L&D.
• Clear career paths, internal mobility, and a strong focus on growth.
• A people-first culture with flexible working options.
• Be part of a high-performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way.

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.

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