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    SquareTrade Software Engineering Manager - Belfast, United Kingdom - Allstate Benefits

    Allstate Benefits
    Allstate Benefits Belfast, United Kingdom

    3 weeks ago

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    Description

    About Us

    The world isn't standing still, and neither is Allstate. We're moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers' evolving needs. That's why now is an exciting time to join our team. You'll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.

    You'll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards – a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.

    Allstate operate a very flexible hybrid working policy that will allow you to design your working week in collaboration with your manager with a blend of remote and office working for NI based employees as well as condensed working patterns (4 day week/9 day fortnight).

    Join our team and you'll find challenge and reward in a culture of innovation, support and balance.

    Location

    Northern Ireland

    Your role in the team

    Allstate Northern Ireland provides a wide range of IT Services across the Allstate Family of companies and we are excited to be partnering with fellow group member Squaretrade, in standing up a new team to support the company's rapidly growing European growth strategy.

    Squaretrade specializes in extended warranty services for consumer electronics and appliances. The EU Business is experiencing hockey-stick growth and has ambitious goals to be a $500 million business by the end of 2022. The business plans to grow aggressively in the Consumer Electronics category as well as the B2B segment of providing protection plans for small businesses. The Squaretrade Allstate NI Engineering team will play a critical role in supporting the EU business meet its growth targets and contribute to the delivery of key offerings that will facilitate the growth strategy.

    In this role as a Software Engineer Manager, you will manage at least 2 strong scrum teams of both software and quality assurance engineers and be a driving force behind metric driven engineering excellence.

    Responsibilities include (but are not limited to)

    Along with being a mentor and a driving force to your teams you will be partnering with Product Owners, DevOps teams, other Software Engineering Managers, a Central Quality Assurance team and an Architecture group to deliver on company initiatives.

    You will report to the Senior Director of Engineering, with whom you will partner on defining the technical vision and direction of each group. This is an exciting position that offers autonomy and teamwork, with opportunities for career development.

    So, what are the essential criteria to apply?

  • Applicants must demonstrate they meet one of the following criteria for employment at Allstate: Must be either a British/Irish Citizen or An EEA national and hold valid settled status or pre settled status or Be a Non-UK/EEA national with UK permanent residency status at the point of offer.
  • Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
  • 5+ years of Object-Oriented development experience.
  • 2+ years hands-on experience of Java, Spring Boot and microservices
  • 2+ years in a formal technical leadership role with evidence of coaching and mentorship activities
  • 1+ years' experience in setting and tracking goals to improve quality and efficiency or contribution to goal setting and measurement.
  • We also have some desirable criteria

    A minimum of 1 year's hands-on experience implementing or supporting solutions that make use of any of the following technologies.

  • One or more Java Testing Frameworks (JUnit, Spock, Cucumber, TestNG, ...)
  • Gradle
  • Mockito
  • Kafka
  • Angular
  • Docker
  • CI/CD
  • Relational Databases (preferably PostgreSQL)
  • Linux or MAC Systems
  • Experience or understanding in one or more of the following:

  • Splunk
  • Sonarqube
  • Contract Testing
  • Test-driven Development
  • Paired-programming
  • Selenium Test Automation
  • What we offer

    As Digital DNA's Workplace of the Year 2020 & 2022 winners, we offer a generous benefits package that includes flexible annual leave entitlement, dental and healthcare insurance, an attractive pension package and discounts on gym memberships, public transport and parking.

    Allstate invests heavily in your development, as an employee you will have access to multiple world-class learning platforms and courses from our award-winning in-house Learning & Development team.

    We pride ourselves in providing clear career paths and opportunities for internal mobility allowing you to further develop within the organisation.

    We encourage a better work life balance and you'll have the opportunity to apply for various flexible working arrangements.

    Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities

    Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability.

    We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit.

    Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.

    The closing date for receipt of applications is Wednesday 5th June 2024

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