National General is a part of The Allstate Corporation, which means we have the same innovative drive that keeps us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. We offer home, auto and accident and health insurance, as well as other specialty niche insurance products, through a large network of independent insurance agents, as well as directly to consumers.

Job Description

Software Engineer Senior Consultant II implements applications following 12-factor principles to build out the product and iterative enhancements. They own the full stack of software products, developing and implementing frontends (web or mobile), and backend services. They leverage test driven development and continuous integration to ensure agility and quality of products. They actively participate in the decision-making process of the team ensuring that the simplest appropriate technology and design is chosen to meet user needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides input into the architecture and design of the product; collaborating with the team in solving problems the right way.
• Practices daily paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building product.
• Participates in executing the strategy, keeping the customer needs and wants in mind.
• Serves as an expert on a specific business domain and demonstrates leadership and accountability on at least one technology stack.
• Coaches more junior team members around different technologies and XP practices.
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices.
• Provides support for software products in user environments.
• Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.
• Participates in retrospectives to gather feedback and derive actionable items to improve the team and the product.
• Participates in iteration planning meetings ensuring that the team has a common understanding of each story and chores in a team’s backlog.

Required Skills

• Great communicator
• Expert in multiple programming languages with depth of knowledge within specific tech stacks (application languages, algorithms, database normalization, data structures, common tools)
  • Microsoft Stacks knowledge and hands-on experience
    • Azure Devops
    • Azure Messaging System
    • Azure Cloud Storage
    • AWS Integration
  • MS Dot Net Core (C#)
  • JavaScript
  • MS SQL Server
  • Cosmos DB
  • Mongo DB
• Influences engineering peers by pairing as needed to augment engineering proficiency and quality.
• Relentlessly pursues upgrading skills and proficiency of team members.
• Design and simplification along with reuse of enterprise tools.
• Co-owns and leads all incident responses and root cause management in partnership with Managing Engineer.

Additional Skills:

• Identifies opportunities to pivot on stories or technical approach to achieve intended outcomes faster.
• Holds decision rights on timing for what the engineers need to work on and works in partnership with Managing Engineer on ongoing prioritization.
• Influences decisions on Managing Engineering.
• Drives breaking work down for digital product inception ceremonies, ensuring technical approach and meaningful iterations align to targeted outcomes.
• Demonstrates a solid understanding and application of enterprise standards, tools and patterns.
• Has a deep understanding of integration points across upstream and downstream systems.
• Responsible for coaching Product Engineers on systems thinking and design principles.

Experience

• 3 or more years of experience (Preferred)

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Education & Experience (in lieu)

• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Skills

.NET Core, AWS Application Integration, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Devops, Azure Storage, C#.NET, C Sharp (Programming Language), It Communication, JavaScript, Messaging Systems, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Communication Services, Microsoft Azure Domain Name System (DNS), Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Programming Languages

Compensation

Base compensation offered for this role is $90,700.00 - $140,000.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

*** Total compensation for this role is comprised of several factors, including the base compensation outlined above, plus incentive pay (i.e., commission, bonus, etc.) as applicable for the role.

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

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National General Holdings Corp., a member of the Allstate family of companies, is headquartered in New York City. National General traces its roots to 1939, has a financial strength rating of A– (excellent) from A.M. Best, and provides personal and commercial automobile, homeowners, umbrella, recreational vehicle, motorcycle, supplemental health, and other niche insurance products. We are a specialty personal lines insurance holding company. Through our subsidiaries, we provide a variety of insurance products, including personal and commercial automobile, homeowners, umbrella, recreational vehicle, supplemental health, lender-placed and other niche insurance products.

Companies & Partners

Direct General Auto & Life, Personal Express Insurance, Century-National Insurance, ABC Insurance Agencies, NatGen Preferred, NatGen Premier, Seattle Specialty, National General Lender Services, ARS, RAC Insurance Partners, Mountain Valley Indemnity, New Jersey Skylands, Adirondack Insurance Exchange, VelaPoint, Quotit, HealthCompare, AHCP, NHIC, Healthcare Solutions Team, North Star Marketing, Euro Accident.

Benefits

National General Holdings Corp. is an Equal Opportunity (EO) employer – Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of any characteristic protected by law. Candidates must possess authorization to work in the United States, as it is not our practice to sponsor individuals for work visas. In the event you need assistance or accommodation in completing your online application, please contact NGIC main office by phone at (336) 435-2000.

Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse. Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.

When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.