Software Engineer at State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company – Bloomington, Illinois

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!

HYBRID 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.
HUB LOCATIONS: Bloomington, IL

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.

Join State Farm as a Software Engineer – Finance Modernization Team

State Farm is seeking two talented Software Engineers to join our Finance Modernization area within the General Department and Billing & Payments division. You will have the opportunity to contribute to innovative products, including:

• Common Services and Financial Reporting User Interface Tool
• RPA (Reinsurance Pool and Associations)

As a key member of these product teams, you will play a vital role in the full software lifecycle—developing, supporting, maintaining, and enhancing critical financial applications. We are at the cutting edge of technology, empowering business units with improved data access and insights.

If you are passionate about applying software engineering best practices to build robust, scalable solutions that drive business success, we want to hear from you!

Key responsibilities include:

• Utilizes up-to-date coding, testing, security, DevOps, and software engineering practices to maintain and create new applications that support business requirements
• Maintains deep understanding in software engineering topics, including classes, functions, security, containers, version control, CI/CD, and unit tests
• Responsible for the analysis, design, deployment, support, documentation, and security of technology to ensure the organization is efficiently managing its technology and data-related assets in accordance with market best-practices and external regulations
• Exhibits DevOps and Agile mindset where team is accountable for product from inception to sunset
• Maintains knowledge of engineering tools, processes, applications, programming languages and environments to lead strategic work and utilizes application architecture to increase efficiency and effectiveness of complex issues
• Provides support for issue resolution and provides technical consultation and direction to business and product team members
• Examines existing code repositories to improve upon and augment current performance capabilities and code readability
• Documents code through commenting and necessary Technical Mapping or Writeups
• Drives required product testing practices and solutions to ensure product quality

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar field (Data Science)
• Java/Scala Experience
• Python Experience
• React or Angular Experience
• Strong Written and Verbal Communication for Collaboration and Documentation
• Big Data Manipulation Framework Experience (Pandas/Spark)

Additional Relevant Experience:

• Scripting/Command line experience
• API and Data services knowledge
• Prior Use of Terraform and Git
• Knowledge of Industry Standards utilizing DevOps, CI/CD, GitOps
• AWS Lambda,S3, EventBridge, StepFunction, EMR experience
• Prior experience refactoring existing codebases

* Qualified candidates may be considered for other positions.

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: $80,600 - $95,000
• 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.

Visit our State Farm Careers page for more information on our benefits, locations, and the hiring process of joining the State Farm team!