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