Lead Software Engineer

Overview

Being good neighbors – helping people, investing in our communities, and making the world a better place – is who we are at State Farm. It is at the core of how we operate and the reason for our success. Come join a #1 team and do some good!

State Farm (Richardson, TX) seeks a Lead Software Engineer with strong Dev Ops and SRE expertise to join the Digital Aggregation Service Layer (DASL) product, which supports the State Farm Mobile App and serves over nine million monthly digital customers. This role requires a full stack developer and involves continuous improvement, maintenance, creation, testing, monitoring, and production support of more than 12 J2EE APIs hosted on Red Hat Open Shift Service on AWS (ROSA) and collaborating across multiple business lines integrating with over 100 providers.

Specific duties include: apply skills, tools, security processes, applications, environments and programming language(s) to complete complex assignments; apply advanced engineering practices to design full-stack applications using industry-adopted languages and frameworks; diagnose and resolve complex problems/issues; maintain advanced understanding in software engineering topics, including classes, functions, security, containers, version control, CI/CD, and unit tests; maintain advanced understanding in programming (e.g. Java, JavaScript), and database functionality (e.g.SQL, non-SQL);

maintain advanced understanding in compute environments, including but not limited to Linux, Hadoop, Mainframe, Public Cloud, and containers; apply advanced understanding regarding technology trends/changes, best practices, and processes to complete assignments and influence the direction of product solutions; apply advanced understanding of product design, data design and movement and test to ensure quality outcomes; leverage an advanced understanding of the State Farm organizational structure to navigate the organization;

provide mentorship, technical guidance, training, and may delegate work to others; take on several simultaneous work stories or focus on a single complex story; understand, support, and help define the vision and direction for product development; champion and lead others to design and develop for exceptional user experience; have membership and engage with technical groups in the organization, like dev guilds;

leverage inner source best practices to encourage code discoverability and collaboration across the enterprise. Must take and pass pre-hire Java coding test in Hire Vue/Code Vue. Option for hybrid work environment, allowing work from home with required travel to local office at least once per quarter. Required to live within 180 miles of local office and within the United States.

Infrequent domestic travel required to other State Farm hub locations.

Position requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Web Technologies and Systems, or a closely related field of study, plus 5 years of experience in the job offered, or as a Sr. Software Developer, Programmer Analyst/Systems Analyst, or similar technical development position. Specific experience must include working with the following:
Java, spring-boot, spring-framework; API development, including REST, SOAP – Swagger, and OpenAPI; API security including OAuth2 and JSON Web Tokens (JWT); dependency management (Maven/Gradle), including software composition analysis (e.g. SNYK);
Git Ops and CI/CD Pipelines (e.g. Git Hub/Git Lab);
Test Automation Framework (e.g. Karate/Cucumber);
Red Hat Open Shift Service on AWS (ROSA);
Kubernetes and Docker; a variety of AWS managed services, including Secrets Manager and Elasti Cache;
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g. Terraform & Scalr);
Apache Camel and Mapstruct;
Application Health and Availability Monitoring; and distributed tracing using tools such as Splunk and Dynatrace; communicating through writing and verbally in a consistent, clear, concise, accurate manner and using an appropriate tone; technical incident and problem management, including using distributed tracing tools to diagnose complex,…