Software Engineer/Lead Software Engineer
State Farm2 days ago
Base Salary
$110k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver scalable, secure, user-friendly full-stack solutions for property and casualty claims operations.
- Build and operate distributed services and REST APIs with reliable event-driven integrations, queues, topics, dead-letter queues, and replay or backfill strategies.
- Develop and deploy solutions using AWS, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and CI/CD release workflows.
- Support production systems through debugging, log and trace analysis, incident triage, and cross-team collaboration.
- Contribute to legacy modernization, migration planning, SPA and frontend integration, observability, security, IAM, and PII handling.
- Use AI-assisted developer tooling and build or operate custom AI agents, agentic workflows, or Model Context Protocol integrations.
Requirements
- Full-stack software development experience with strong backend and service engineering capabilities.
- Strong proficiency in at least one of Java with Spring Boot, TypeScript with Node.js, or Python, with the ability to work across the others.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, including reliability, failure modes, retries and timeouts, idempotency, and eventual consistency.
- Experience building and operating AWS solutions using services such as Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB or RDS, S3, SNS/SQS, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, and IAM.
- Experience designing and maintaining versioned REST APIs with backward compatibility and defined API contracts.
- Experience with containers and Kubernetes/OpenShift, including deployments, services and ingress, configuration and secrets, and rollout strategies.
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or similar release-management tooling and safe rollout and rollback practices.
- Experience supporting production systems, interpreting logs and traces, triaging incidents, and collaborating across teams.
- Strong object-oriented programming and service design fundamentals.
- Experience designing, building, or operating custom AI agents, agentic development workflows, or Model Context Protocol servers or integrations.
- Experience with observability tools including CloudWatch and Dynatrace.
- Experience with security, IAM, least privilege, encryption, secrets management, auditability, and PII handling.
- Experience with legacy modernization, strangler patterns, cutover planning, migration, and backfill strategies.
- Experience supporting single-page applications and frontend integration patterns; Angular familiarity is a plus.
- Strong analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
Benefits
- Potential starting base salary of $110,000–$140,000, with starting pay based on skills, background, and experience.
- Potential yearly incentive pay of up to 15% of base salary.
- 38:45-hour standard work week.
- Health, dental, vision, 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, discounts, financial workshops, financial coaching, and credit union access.
- Paid time off, up to 20 days initially, 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 of up to 7% of salary and access to financial advisors.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBAngularAWSGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDJavaKubernetesNode.jsOpenShiftPythonSpring BootTypeScript
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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.