Software Engineer – API (Hybrid or Remote)

Company: Allstate
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Location: Belfast
Job Description:

Overview

At Allstate in Northern Ireland, we’re not just keeping pace — we’re setting it. As Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Your role in the team

Key responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and maintain secure APIs, microservices, and systems for IAM and related security functions.
  • Develop APIs using test-driven and contract-driven approaches to ensure reliability and scalability.
  • Investigate and resolve development and production issues across multiple services and layers of the stack.
  • Provide production support on a rotational basis, ensuring service availability and incident resolution.
  • Apply solid knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), OOP/SOA principles, and enterprise design patterns.
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and security teams to deliver business-aligned solutions.
  • Contribute actively to improving engineering standards, tooling, and development processes across the team.
  • Prepare systems for AI-driven capabilities and future scalability.
  • Support monitoring and observability through tools like Datadog and MS Sentinel SIEM.
  • All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 2 years’ experience with REST APIs and common data formats (JSON, XML) or Spring Boot (AOP, Data, JDBC, Security).
  • Minimum 1 year of exposure to security concepts such as authentication, authorization, and secure communication (OAuth2.0, JWT).
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and build tools (Maven, Gradle) and Git for version control.
  • Familiarity with databases (RDBMS and NoSQL) and ability to write simple to moderate SQL queries.
  • Knowledge of unit testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito).
  • Familiarity with Integrating APIs with identity and security systems (Active Directory, SailPoint, CyberArk, HashiCorp Vault).
  • Experience with Python
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure)
  • Exposure to API gateways (Apigee or similar)
  • Exposure to event streaming (Kafka).
  • Front-end familiarity (React, Angular, NodeJS)

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Job Posting End Date

Thursday, 9th October 2025 (11:59pm)

Joining our team

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate’s European Digital Centre of Excellence—recent winners of ‘Best Use of Cloud Services’ at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards 2024, and recognised for our community and sustainability impact at the 2024 Business in the Community Awards and Gold accreditation for Environmental Responsibility.

We’re a product-driven, cloud-first organisation delivering real outcomes through modern technology, a digital product-centric talent model, and a culture rooted in engineering excellence. Our teams work in cross-functional structures, guided by an outcome-based delivery approach that accelerates speed, agility, and value.

Benefits

  • A generous, flexible benefits package including annual leave, healthcare and dental cover, pension, and lifestyle discounts
  • Access to world-class learning platforms and award-winning L&D
  • Clear career paths, internal mobility, and a strong focus on growth
  • A people-first culture with flexible working options

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.

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Posted: March 27th, 2026