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

Individual responsibilities may vary by role.

The Small Business Insurance product team is working to improve and simplify the sales and service experience for our State Farm Agents and Customers. This job is for you if you are passionate about user experience and have a strong desire to work on a product that will directly impact our customers. You will have the opportunity to innovate on new ideas, get feedback directly from users, and develop new capabilities that will drive Business Lines growth for our organization.

Individual responsibilities may vary by role and level.

* 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
* 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

Skills and qualifications may vary by role.

* Seeking either:
* Strong front-end web development skills, preferably with Micro frontend architecture experience
* And/or excellent hands-on experience with Java and/or GOSU
* Understands and practices DevOps, e.g. Test Automation, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment.
* High aptitude in architecture design, development best practices, web app security, and code quality.
* Strong critical thinking and the ability to independently debug/troubleshoot issues.
* Strong oral and written communication skills that can communicate complex and technical solutions effectively.
* Team player, takes initiative and is proactive with assignments.
* Ability to quickly adapt to a changing and fast-paced agile development environment.
* Applies an expert understanding of development tools, processes, applications, programming languages and environments to assignments
* Designs and develops full-stack applications using industry-adopted languages and frameworks
* Enables solution modernization activities through design and development-related work items and architectural engagement

Preferred Technical skills:

APIs such as GraphQL, REST, Full Stack Developer with hands on experience with:

* Frontend: React - Functional,HTML/CSS/JS,Typescript,Other framework/library such as Angular/Ember/Vue/etc,CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap, Material, etc.
* Backend: Java/Spring Boot,SOAP,Gosu, PolicyCenter, other Guidewire products,JS/NodeJS,NGINX/Express
* Developer Tools: CodeceptJS/Selenium/Karate or similar Automated Acceptance Testing frameworks,Security scan tools, e.g. NIQS, Checkmarx,Code quality tools, e.g. Jacoco, Pit Mutation, Checkstyle, ESLint, etc,npm/Yarn,Git,Gitlab & Gitlab DevOp Tools, ChromeDevTools,Splunk,SOAPUI/Postman,Maven/Gradle