Software Engineer/Lead Software Engineer

State Farm is seeking a Software Engineer or Lead Software Engineer to help transform the platforms that support Property and Casualty claims operations. In this role, you will work on full-stack solutions with a strong focus on AWS, delivering scalable, secure capabilities that improve customer experience and help streamline claims processing for thousands of users.

You will partner with product teams, architects, and claims operations to translate operational needs into maintainable designs, while contributing to reliability, performance, and developer productivity across services and deployments.

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in transforming the platforms that drive Property & Casualty claims operations.
• Collaborate with product teams, architects, and claims operations to design and deliver scalable, secure, user-friendly solutions that elevate customer experience.
• Streamline claim processing and improve operational efficiency for thousands of users.

Requirements

• Full-stack software development experience, with strong backend/service engineering capabilities.
• Strong proficiency in at least one: Java (Spring Boot), TypeScript/Node.js, or Python, with the ability to work across the others as needed.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including reliability, failure modes, retries/timeouts, idempotency, and eventual consistency.
• Proficiency building and operating on AWS, including several of: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and/or RDS, S3, SNS/SQS, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, and IAM.
• Experience designing and maintaining REST APIs, including versioning, backward compatibility, and API contracts.
• Experience with event-driven integration patterns, including queues/topics, DLQs, and replay/backfill considerations.
• Experience with containers and deployment on Kubernetes/OpenShift (ROSA), including deployments, services/ingress, configuration/secrets, and rollout strategies.
• Experience with CI/CD and release management using GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or similar, including safe rollout and rollback strategies.
• Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted developer tooling (for example, GitHub Copilot) and LLMs to accelerate coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and other workflows.
• Ability to support production systems, including debugging, log/trace interpretation, incident triage, and collaboration across teams.
• Strong object-oriented programming (OOP) and service design fundamentals, with the ability to translate complex operational needs into maintainable designs.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
• Experience designing, building, or operating custom AI agents, agentic development workflows, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers/integrations.
• Observability tooling experience, including CloudWatch and Dynatrace.
• Security/IAM and PII-handling experience, including least privilege, encryption, secrets management, and auditability.
• Legacy modernization and migration experience, including strangler patterns, cutover planning, and migration/backfill strategies.
• Experience supporting single-page applications (SPA) and front-end integration patterns; Angular familiarity is a plus.

Technology Focus

• Java, Spring Boot
• TypeScript, Node.js
• Python
• AWS: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, IAM
• REST APIs
• Kubernetes, OpenShift, ROSA
• GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions
• GitHub Copilot, LLMs
• Dynatrace
• Angular, single-page applications (SPA)
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Benefits

• Potential starting salary range: $110,000 - $140,000.
• Potential yearly incentive pay up to 15% of base salary.
• Annual raise and bonus.
• State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium, plus robust health and wellbeing programs.
• 100% coverage for in-network preventative care.
• Vision, dental, telemedicine, and 24/7 mental health professionals.
• Educational benefits including industry-leading training programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
• Fertility/IVF/adoption assistance, college coaching, national discount programs, monthly financial workshops, free financial coaching, and more.
• Generous time off, initially up to 20 days annually plus parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave (40 hours/year), bereavement leave, and community service/education support days.
• Matching Gift Program, Good Neighbor Grant Program, and the Employee Assistance Fund.
• 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary.

Location: Bloomington, IL (onsite)
Compensation: USD 110,000 - 140,000 per year
Work style note: Compensation is based on a standard 38:45-hour work week.

At State Farm, “Being good neighbors” reflects helping people and investing in communities. The organization is moving with urgency to become a Next Gen Good Neighbor by using technology to strengthen human connections and enhance the customer experience.