Product Engineering; Integration Java Developer

Company Overview

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.

Through our Employee Value Proposition, we have worked hard to develop and nurture a culture where employees feel valued, experience personal growth, have career options and truly enjoy the work they do.

We are excited to announce the establishment of a new Integrations Team within Allstate Canada (ACG) with a focus on improving and modernizing the state of ACG integrations. We are looking for an experienced Product Engineering (Integration Java Developer) to play a key role within this global team which will comprise members from ACG, Allstate Northern Ireland (ANI), and Allstate India Private Limited (AIPL).

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain organizational level APIs and microservices using REST based methods.
• Design, develop, test and deploy using middleware systems (e.g., using integration tools and deployment of JAR on containers).
• Understand technical non‑functional requirements and translate them into an API design.
• Document APIs using ACG standard tools.
• Leverage secure API standards to provide the appropriate level of security.
• Support development, testing and production APIs.
• Use and promote common development tools and practices within the team.
• Provide general support of fully integrated, highly available production integration environments.
• Analyze information systems processes, monitor key performance metrics and create standard performance dashboards/reports.
• As a senior team member, enhance the Integration team’s accomplishments and competence by answering technical and procedural questions, teaching improved processes and providing mentorship for less experienced team members.
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure consistent adherence to standards and make recommendations where necessary.
• Deliver high‑quality documentation as required.
• Communicate effectively with teammates, business stakeholders and other technology teams.
• Work effectively as part of a distributed team within agile delivery frameworks.

• Minimum of 6‑8 years’ experience designing, documenting, developing, testing, deploying and maintaining Web APIs using Java/Spring.
• Solid knowledge of integration design patterns and ability to properly document the design.
• Experience working in Windows or Linux environments.
• Experience with common development tools and practices (e.g., Visual Studio, IntelliJ, JUnit, Git Hub, Jenkins).
• Experience with transforming messages (e.g., XML to REST JSON).
• Experience with developing and designing high‑performance APIs.
• Experience with documenting interfaces (e.g., Swagger, interface control documents, non‑functional requirements such as volumetric).
• Working knowledge of RESTful software design practices.
• Working knowledge of RESTful API design and architecture.
• Experience with message transformation, orchestration and batch.
• Experience with API performance management tools.
• Experience working in Agile (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, XP) environments.
• Ability to perform basic database development and query (e.g., SQL).
• Good understanding of CI/CD architecture and its pipeline models.
• Good understanding of CI/CD tools.
• Understanding of logging and monitoring tools and integration (e.g., Splunk, IRIS, Data Dog).
• Knowledge of TDD, secure coding practices.
• Demonstrated reliability, professionalism, and accountability in a professional work environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience with API Gateway tools such as Datapower would be an asset.
• Experience with API transformation and orchestration tools would be an asset (Talend, Kafka, or Tibco).
• Understanding of microservice architectural approach in designing distributed systems.
• Experience with JavaScript or Python.
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