Lead Software Engineer

State Farm

State Farm

Software Engineering

Richardson, TX, USA

Posted on May 11, 2026
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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Responsibilities

State Farm (Richardson, TX) seeks a Lead Software Engineer with strong DevOps and SRE expertise to join the Digital Aggregation Service Layer (DASL) product, which supports the State Farm Mobile App and serves over nine million monthly digital customers. This role requires a full stack developer and involves continuous improvement, maintenance, creation, testing, monitoring, and production support of more than 12 J2EE APIs hosted on RedHat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) and collaborating across multiple business lines integrating with over 100 providers. Specific duties include: apply skills, tools, security processes, applications, environments and programming language(s) to complete complex assignments; apply advanced engineering practices to design full-stack applications using industry-adopted languages and frameworks; diagnose and resolve complex problems/issues; maintain advanced understanding in software engineering topics, including classes, functions, security, containers, version control, CI/CD, and unit tests; maintain advanced understanding in programming (e.g. Java, JavaScript), and database functionality (e.g.SQL, non-SQL); maintain advanced understanding in compute environments, including but not limited to Linux, Hadoop, Mainframe, Public Cloud, and containers; apply advanced understanding regarding technology trends/changes, best practices, and processes to complete assignments and influence the direction of product solutions; apply advanced understanding of product design, data design and movement and test to ensure quality outcomes; leverage an advanced understanding of the State Farm organizational structure to navigate the organization; provide mentorship, technical guidance, training, and may delegate work to others; take on several simultaneous work stories or focus on a single complex story; understand, support, and help define the vision and direction for product development; champion and lead others to design and develop for exceptional user experience; have membership and engage with technical groups in the organization, like dev guilds; leverage inner source best practices to encourage code discoverability and collaboration across the enterprise. Must take and pass pre-hire Java coding test in HireVue/CodeVue. Option for hybrid work environment, allowing work from home with required travel to local office at least once per quarter. Required to live within 180 miles of local office and within the United States. Infrequent domestic travel required to other State Farm hub locations.


Qualifications

Position requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Web Technologies and Systems, or a closely related field of study, plus 5 years of experience in the job offered, or as a Sr. Software Developer, Programmer Analyst/Systems Analyst, or similar technical development position. Specific experience must include working with the following: Java, spring-boot, spring-framework; API development, including REST, SOAP – Swagger, and OpenAPI; API security including OAuth2 and JSON Web Tokens (JWT); dependency management (Maven/Gradle), including software composition analysis (e.g. SNYK); GitOps and CI/CD Pipelines (e.g. GitHub/GitLab); Test Automation Framework (e.g. Karate/Cucumber); RedHat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA); Kubernetes and Docker; a variety of AWS managed services, including Secrets Manager and ElastiCache; Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g. Terraform & Scalr); Apache Camel and Mapstruct; Application Health and Availability Monitoring; and distributed tracing using tools such as Splunk and Dynatrace; communicating through writing and verbally in a consistent, clear, concise, accurate manner and using an appropriate tone; technical incident and problem management, including using distributed tracing tools to diagnose complex, cross-product issues by identifying root causes and interdependencies; applying broad technical insight to ask probing questions that uncover underlying problems and their organizational impact; and maintaining composure and effective collaboration under pressure, especially when resolving critical production incidents with technical leaders and teams. Must take and pass pre-hire Java coding test in HireVue/CodeVue. Option for hybrid work environment, allowing work from home with required travel to local office at least once per quarter. Required to live within 180 miles of local office and within the United States. Infrequent domestic travel required to other State Farm hub locations.

Full time position. Apply by submitting resumes at https://jobs.statefarm.com/main/jobs, Job ID: 44218

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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: $XX,XXX - $XXX,XXX
    • 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 XX% 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!