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

We are looking for a Software Developer who is a motivated self-starter, who loves to learn new technologies and put them to practical use, and is interested in engaging with a small dedicated team of developers who are responsible for building Property & Casualty data assets and provisioning the data to meet our downstream consumers. This team is utilizing agile practices to lead the way into industry-disruptive applications in the cloud.

* Possesses an understanding of how technology solutions meet the business outcomes and offers a range of solutions for business partners.
* 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, coding, data and testing standards, secure coding practices, 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 system software support for State Farm applications, components and testing software (testware).
* 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

Required Skills:

* 2-3 years of experience developing and managing applications on Amazon Web Services.
* Ability to develop solutions on variety of platforms according to business requirements.
* Big data development skills
* Knowledge of data development software and AWS technologies, such as:
* Python
* Glue
* Athena
* Lamda
* S3
* Terraform
* Hudi
* EMR Cluster
* Hadoop
* Spark
* Hive
* Impala
* Parquet
* JSON
* RESTful API Services, etc.

*** 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. ***