Full Stack Engineer (hybrid or remote)

About Us

The world isn’t standing still, and neither is Allstate. We’re moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers’ evolving needs. That’s why now is an exciting time to join our team. You’ll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.

You’ll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards – a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.

Allstate operate a very flexible hybrid working policy that will allow you to design your working week in collaboration with your manager with a blend of remote and office working for NI based employees as well as condensed working patterns (4 day week/9 day fortnight). Employees based in GB will be employed on a permanent remote working contract.

Join our team and you’ll find challenge and reward in a culture of innovation, support and balance.

Location

Northern Ireland/Remote GB

Your role in the team

As a Full Stack Engineer in Identity and Access Management (IAM) you will be part of a core team within Identity and Access Management. We have a key focus on building out a centralized platform and core services for customer identity and access management (CIAM) as we look to rearchitect how customers’ needs are best met.

The full stack team you will be a part of, will establish core Digital Identity services, using architecture patterns that focus on interoperability, utilizing a vendor product (ForgeRock) that leverages user journeys with an emphasis on customer experience. Incorporating a digital identity ‘source of truth’ leading to improved and simplified customer connections therefore enabling a one-Allstate vision by centralizing our digital identity store. Building these core services we plan to improve monitoring and detection using event driven data sharing to ensure best CIAM practices and security standards are upheld.

We are seeking a candidate with significant full stack engineering experience to be part of an XP team. If you are an enthusiastic developer fully immersed in the latest technology stack this role would be ideal for you.

Responsibilities

We are searching for talented and technical engineers who can help design and develop our products. The successful candidate will collaborate within the team and across engineering teams to help maintain, implement, and deliver features.

• Use your technical skills and aptitude to meet/exceed delivery velocity expectations as a full stack developer
• Build and maintain frameworks/libraries/reusable components, Applications, REST APIs, frontend and Abstraction Layers
• Participate in daily product stand-up, iteration planning, and retrospective meetings
• Participate in the effort of shaping the architecture and design of the product; actively help the team in choosing the right technology and solving technical problems
• Establish and follow continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
• Create and update technical product documentation
• Provide support to developers/engineers who use the team’s products

So, what are the essential criteria to apply?

• All candidates must evidence an existing right to work in the UK
• At minimum 5 years’ software development experience; and
• Experience with Java, React JS, Javascript, CSS; and
• Experience with testing frameworks: such as (junit, Mockito, jest, jasmine); and
• Experience with database technologies, such as SQL Server; and
• Experience designing, developing, and implementing systems at scale and
• Experience with multi-threading, asynchronous, and parallel programming; and
• Experience with understanding of distributed systems, operating systems, networking, databases, security and analytics; and
• Experience with Agile development methodologies - in particular XP preferred.

We also have some desirable criteria

• Experience with designing and developing frameworks/libraries/reusable components
• Experience using Git Hub and Jenkins
• Experience in Cloud Computing Environments in particular Google Cloud Platform or AWS, Azure.
• Experience in Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
• Strong desire to continue learning and growing (technical and non-technical areas).
• Experience providing guidance and support especially for less-experienced colleagues.
• Experience with, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience of leading an engineering team as tech lead or engineering manager.
• Experience of the ForgeRock product.
• Experience of working within an Information Security focused team, including familiarity with PEN testing and IAM best practices.

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.

The closing date for receipt of applications is Tuesday 18th April 2023

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