Lead Software Engineer (Federated GraphQL)
State Farm2 days ago
Richardson, TX, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$123k - $142k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve the Policy GraphQL schema with architects and data model stewards.
- Build federated subgraphs that read from databases, policy administration system APIs, or owned read models.
- Define entity design, schema composition, schema evolution, and reusable engineering patterns for other domains.
- Collaborate with architecture, consuming domains, policy administration teams, and the GraphQL platform team.
- Own p99 performance targets through load testing, profiling, and tuning.
- Build integrations that handle slow or failing dependencies using techniques such as timeouts, retries, and batching.
- Develop automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to prevent regressions.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of software engineering experience.
- Production experience with federated GraphQL, including entity and key design and schema composition and evolution across teams.
- Backend development experience in one or more of Go, Java, or Node.js/TypeScript.
- Ability to learn new languages and technologies quickly and use AI coding assistants effectively.
- Experience integrating services that call other systems and handling slow or failing dependencies.
- Experience building automated unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
- Preferred qualifications include leading federated GraphQL adoption or schema governance across multiple teams.
- Preferred experience includes gqlgen, Spring for GraphQL, Netflix DGS, Temporal or another durable workflow engine, Dynatrace or OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS, ACORD, insurance, gRPC, event-driven systems, or caching.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Richardson, Texas, requiring approximately 40% in-office time each month beginning in late 2027.
- Health, vision, dental, telemedicine, mental health, and wellbeing programs, with State Farm paying most healthcare premiums.
- Training programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
- Fertility, IVF, adoption assistance, college coaching, financial workshops, financial coaching, and credit-union services.
- Paid time off, parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave, bereavement leave, and community service or education support days.
- Matching Gift, Good Neighbor Grant, and Employee Assistance Fund programs.
- 401(k) plan with company contributions and access to free financial advisors.
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About State Farm
State Farm is a U.S. mutual insurance group that sells auto, home, renters, life, health, and small-business coverage, plus select financial services. It markets policies primarily through a large network of local agents and earns revenue from premiums and investing customer reserves. Founded in 1922 and headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, it is among the largest personal lines insurers in the United States.