Job Description

Job Description
Overview

We are not just offering a job but a meaningful career! Come join our passionate team!

As a Fortune 50 company, we hire the best employees to serve our customers, making us a leader in the insurance and financial services industry. State Farm embraces diversity and inclusion to ensure a workforce that is engaged, builds on the strengths and talents of all associates, and creates a Good Neighbor culture.

We offer competitive benefits and pay with the potential for an annual financial award based on both individual and enterprise performance. Our employees have an opportunity to participate in volunteer events within the community and engage in a learning culture. We offer programs to assist with tuition reimbursement, professional designations, employee development, wellness initiatives, and more!

Visit our Careers page for more information on our benefits, locations and the process of joining the State Farm team!

Responsibilities

This position is for a cloud-native Java developer to join an existing highly-effective agile team. You can be a part of this forward thinking team that provides solutions that are leveraged by State Farm's industry leading Auto and Fire online applications. You will be part of a team that is continuously modernizing our own solutions, while continuing to provide reliable high-transaction rate API-based services to meet the demands of the State Farm's core Auto and Homeowner products. This position will contribute to our cloud-based modernization efforts by developing synchronous and asynchronous SOAP and RESTful API's using relational and No-SQL database technologies, all with DevOps mindset. Our developers leverage the latest continuous integration and continuous delivery tools and processes to deliver incremental value for our cloud-ready solutions.

Duties and Responsibilities:

* Possesses an understanding of how technology solutions meet the business outcomes and offers a range of solutions for business partners; understand business current and aspirational needs
* Participates in sprint planning; provides work estimates to deliver product stories; owns development stories
* Develops solutions on variety of platforms according to business requirements
* Completes required coding to satisfy the defined acceptance criteria and deliver desired outcome
* Leads solution design, considering risks, mitigations, performance, user experience, and testability
* Assists in development of automated testing and supporting code as necessary
* Completes required documentation to communicate information to deployment, maintenance, and business teams
* Utilizes agile software development practices, data and testing standards, code reviews, source code management, continuous delivery, and software architecture
* Participates in the full software development cycle including coding, testing, implementation, support and sunset
* Designs, develops, tests and supports software in support of big data objectives
* Possesses an understanding of User Experience practices to improve usability and interaction between the customer and product
* Adopts Service Design, where appropriate, through architecture modularity to enable continuous delivery
* Considers applying emerging technology solutions to increase efficiency and effectiveness; expectation of continuous innovation
* Resolves problems that result in a decreased time to market; improves quality, enhances flexibility, and embraces the solution provider mindset
* Provides input into overall testing plan; contributes to test approach and scenarios for requirements
* Provides product and/or process expertise necessary to support design, development, testing and execution of solutions
* Exhibits DevOps mindset where team is accountable for product from inception to sunset

Qualifications

We Are Looking for Candidates With

Required technical skills and experience:

* Understanding of Object Oriented software design principles, design patterns, and code quality
* Experience with Software Development using Java and other OO-based language (C, Ruby, etc..)

Desired technical skills and experience:

* Familiarity with Software Development Tooling (Git, etc.)
* Experience with Relational DBs
* Experience with Spring (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring CXF, etc.)
* Experience with Build frameworks (Maven)
* Experience with web-based unit testing (JUnits, Mockito)
* Experience or an understanding of API development technologies; REST, JSON, Swagger, SOAP, XML, WSDL
* Experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)
* Experience with Continuous Delivery Pipelines(Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD, Pipelines, and static scanning tools )

What's In It For You:

* Competitive Benefits, Pay and Bonus Potential: Who doesn't want money, right?
* 401k Plan
* Dress Code: We trust our employees to dress for their day. That's right, we trust you...
* Discount Program: Are you in the market for electronics, jewelry, travel or more?
* Volunteer opportunities: Give back to the community!
* A Learning Culture: Mentoring, Tuition Reimbursement, Health Initiatives, and more!
* We embrace Diversity and Inclusion--It's simply the right thing to do!
* Learn more about our benefits at State Farm Careers!



What You Can Expect:



Next Steps: Competitive candidates may be invited to participate in the interview process. This is where the excitement begins! Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity.