Full-Stack Software Engineer – AWS & Identity

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. We're moving with urgency to become a Next Gen Good Neighbor, with technology that strengthens human connections and enhances the customer experience. As an employee, you'll spend less time navigating systems and more time applying judgment, empathy, and expertise in the moments that matter most. HYBRID: Qualified candidates (in or near hub locations listed below) 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; Richardson, TX; Tempe, AZ; Dunwoody, GA SPONSORSHIP: Applicants 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.

Grow Your Skills, Grow Your Potential

Responsibilities

The Federated Identity Team (FIT) exists to simplify the lives of users and developers by providing an easy, intuitive, and secure login experience - achieving one person, one identity. We own how applications across State Farm onboard to Microsoft Entra ID: app registration, single sign-on, and choosing the right authentication pattern - client credentials (secrets, certificates, or workload identity) for service-to-service, authorization code flow with PKCE for client applications. We build FedHub (the Federation Hub) to do that. FedHub gives application owners a single, straightforward place to manage their Entra applications, and it enforces security controls around application configuration that cannot be enforced through the Entra UI. It also handles permission requests, admin-consent workflows, and SAML/OIDC/SCIM configuration. The stack is React and TypeScript in the FedHub UI, a GraphQL API (Apollo Server) on AWS Lambda behind API Gateway, DynamoDB for state, and integrations into Microsoft Graph, ServiceNow, and ARTS. We ship through GitLab CI to AWS with infrastructure in Terraform, and we use AI-assisted development tooling as a normal part of how we build. This is a small team with a large surface area. Individual contributions are highly visible, additional ownership is available immediately to anyone who wants it, and we are specifically looking for someone who wants it.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, integrate, deploy, and support enterprise applications across the full software stack.
• Own significant portions of the migration from GitLab-based provisioning to an event-driven AWS architecture, including the design decisions - not just the implementation.
• Build and refine consumer-friendly interfaces for genuinely complex identity workflows: app registration, SAML and OIDC configuration, claims mapping, SCIM provisioning, permission requests.
• Extend the GraphQL API and its integrations into Microsoft Graph and other enterprise systems.
• Work within and strengthen our authorization model - Entra delegated tokens, an API Gateway token authorizer, and schema-directive-based RBAC with resource-level ownership enforcement.
• Contribute to Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and operational support of what you ship.
• Partner directly with application teams across the enterprise, translating their integration needs into product capability.

Qualifications

Key Skills & Abilities

• A track record of owning work end to end. You can take a loosely defined problem, ask the questions needed to scope it, and drive it into production without being assigned each next step.
• Initiative and follow-through. You notice the gap - the unclear requirement, the flaky test, the undocumented process, the thing nobody owns - and you close it rather than route around it. You see work through to done.
• An appetite for more scope. You look for the next hard problem instead of waiting for it to be handed to you, and you are comfortable being accountable for a system running in production.
• Ability to navigate and build relationships across multiple teams and levels of the organization.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to foster innovation, encourage diversity of thought, and incorporate new ideas.
• Learning agility. Identity is a deep domain; you will not know all of it on day one, and you should be genuinely interested in learning it.
• Experience or comfort working in an agile environment.
• A strong drive for results.

Technical Competencies Primary Skills

• Design, develop, integrate, deploy, and support enterprise applications.
• A track record of being able to deliver complex solutions with consumer friendly interfaces on AWS.
• An understanding of State Farm application engineering practices, and either a track record of helping other software engineers improve their craft or a genuine interest in growing into that.
• Strong JavaScript and TypeScript fundamentals - not just framework familiarity.
• Production experience building UIs with a modern component-based framework, React strongly preferred.
• Substantial back-end experience building and operating server-side services (Node.js preferred), including API design and working with a database.
• Hands-on AWS experience: Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, IAM, and event-driven design patterns. This is central to the work ahead.
• API development and usage (REST and/or GraphQL).
• Automated testing as a normal part of development.
• CI/CD experience (GitLab preferred) and comfortable Git-based collaboration. Preferred Skills Depth in several of these is more valuable than passing familiarity with all of them.
• UI frameworks: React - the framework the FedHub UI is built on.
• GraphQL specifically - Apollo Client and/or Apollo Server.
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform/OpenTofu).
• Identity and access management: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Graph.
• Credential management: workload identity (federated credentials), AWS Secrets Manager.
• Logging, tracing, and reporting (Dynatrace, AWS CloudWatch).
• MUI or another comprehensive component library used at scale.
• Accessibility standards and testing.
• Prior experience on a platform team whose users are other engineers.

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: $85,000 - $130,000
• 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!