Lead Software Engineer

Overview
Being good neighbors – helping people, investing in our communities, and making the world a better place – is who we are at State Farm. It is at the core of how we operate and the reason for our success. Come join a #1 team and do some good!
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Qualified candidates must live within a
180-mile radius
of a hub location listed below and should plan to spend time working from home and some time working in the office as part of our hybrid work environment
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HUB LOCATIONS: Bloomington, IL; Richardson, TX; Dunwoody, GA; or Tempe, AZ**
SPONSORSHIP:
Applicants for this position are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity.
Responsibilities
Grow Your Skills, Grow Your Potential
State Farm is investing in building a Customer-First, Future-Ready Unified Insurance Platform. The API Strategy and Enablement team will be at the forefront of this endeavor building out the federated GraphQL API layer of this new platform. This is an awesome opportunity to work on a team that will be creating and supporting a foundational piece of our new Unified Insurance Platform. If you enjoy solving hard technical problems, building modern cloud services, and working with new agentic processes you will find a lot to be excited about in joining this team. This position will be highly visible and give you the opportunity to collaborate with many different teams and departments. The enablement, integration, and support work will be challenging, help to further develop your engineering skillset, and be incredibly rewarding.
Qualifications
We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer who is highly technical, possesses effective communication skills, and has both a strong customer and developer experience mindset.
What You Will Be Doing:
Individuals in this role will be responsible for the following scopes of work.

• Assist team in scaling out the subgraph builds of new and existing GraphQL APIs that will be put on the Federated GraphQL Supergraph.
• Work with our partners on the Merna and ROSA Enablement teams, building new automation and integration capabilities for the Unified Insurance Platform.
• Enhancing the Supergraph security architecture to support multiple IDPs and MCP server interactions.
• Providing support of the Federated GraphQL platform and its underlying components, e.g., router management, schema management, cluster management, and assisting teams in security configuration setup.

Qualifications:

• Self-driven and has experience with software and infrastructure design.
• Experience writing GraphQL schema and resolvers.
• Experience with Federation Spec 2.0+
• Experience with running a federated supergraph for an organization.
• Experience writing code in Node.js and GO (Experience with Java could be considered but not required)
• Experience with building, deploying, and testing with Docker.
• Experience with IaC using terraform, tofu, and scalr.
• Experience with common AWS technologies and services such as ECR, EKS, Route 53, API Gateway, IAM
• Experience working with Elasticache (Redis)
• Experience working with Kubernetes clusters, especially any experience with custom resource operators or Kustomize.
• Experience working with deployment controllers (flux, helm) is a plus.
• Experience working with Microsoft Entra and IAM, specifically experience in using and designing things that require federated access management.
• Knowledge of supply chain security and zero-trust engineering practices
• Experience working with Eventing architecture patterns using Kafka.
• Experience designing and running intermediate to complex CI/CD Pipelines
• Platform Engineering Experience is a plus.
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases.

Our Benefits
Because work-life balance is a priority at State Farm, compensation is based on our standard 38:45-hour work week!

• Potential starting salary range: $110,000 - $135,000

• Starting salary will be based on skills, background, and experience
• High end of the range limited to applicants with significant relevant experience

• Potential yearly incentive pay up to 15% of base salary

At State Farm, we offer more than just a paycheck. Check out our suite of benefits designed to give you the flexibility you need to take care of you and your family!

• Get Paid! On top of our competitive pay, you are eligible for an annual raise and bonus.
• Stay Well! Focus on you and your family’s health with our robust health and wellbeing programs. State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium, and we offer multiple healthcare plan options, including a high deductible plan. All medical plans provide 100% coverage for in-network preventative care, AND you and your family have access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals, and much more!
• Develop and Grow! Take advantage of educational benefits like industry leading training programs, top-notch tuition assistance programs, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
• Plan Ahead! Plan for those big moments in life with benefits like fertility/IVF/adoption assistance, college coaching, national discount programs, interactive monthly financial workshops, free financial coaching, and more. You can also start a savings account or consider financing through our State Farm Federal Credit Union!
• Take a Little “You” Time! You will have access to our generous time off policies designed so you can plan around holidays, family events, volunteering, or just to take a relaxing day off. With the opportunity to initially earn 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, there will be plenty of time for you!
• Give Back! We offer several ways to give back through our Matching Gift Program, Good Neighbor Grant Program, and the Employee Assistance Fund.
• Finish Strong! Plan for retirement using free financial advisors and a 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary.

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