Product Engineer - Lead Consultant (Hybrid)

Allstate NI; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Corporate bonus scheme

Pension scheme

Annual performance-related pay reviews

Life assurance and income protection

Flexible working options

Hybrid working

Private medical and dental insurance

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Two paid volunteering days each year

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Allstate NI is seeking Product Risk Engineers to design, build, and operate risk management software across front-end React, Spring Boot services, and data layers. You will own production capabilities end to end, including architecture, deployment, and ongoing operational support in a scalable, secure environment.

You will apply modern engineering practices (TDD, paired programming, code review, automated testing) and drive adoption of CI/CD.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of software engineering experience with ownership of production systems.
• Hands-on proficiency in React, Java, and Spring Boot.
• At least 1 year of coaching or mentoring engineers to raise team capability.
• Experience designing, developing, and integrating APIs, REST interfaces, SQL data stores, and event-driven components (e.g., Kafka).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate software products supporting risk management and control workflows.
• Own risk engineering product capabilities end-to-end including architecture and deployment.
• Write, test, and maintain production code across React front ends, Spring Boot services, SQL layers, and microservices.
• Apply test-driven development, paired programming, code review, automated testing, and CI/CD.
• Contribute to scalable, reliable, secure designs with focus on risk control outcomes.
• Evaluate new technologies to improve usability, performance, and automation.
• Collaborate with product managers and platform teams to align capabilities with risk needs.
• Participate in agile ceremonies and uphold production ownership.

Skills

React

Java

Spring Boot

APIs

REST

Microservices

TDD

CI/CD

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Your role in the team The Risk Engineering team is responsible for designing, building, and operating software products that support risk management and risk control capabilities across the ACC organization. The team applies modern software engineering practices to create scalable, reliable, and user‑friendly applications that help teams understand risk, manage control activity, automate workflows, and turn risk and control data into actionable outcomes.

Product Risk Engineers are full‑stack software engineers who own the full software development lifecycle — from design and implementation through deployment and production support. They build and maintain production applications using modern front‑end, back‑end, data, and event‑driven technologies, and are accountable for the reliability, usability, adoption, and effectiveness of the products they deliver. Success in this role is measured through outcomes such as product adoption, system reliability, improved control execution, reduced manual effort, and meaningful support for risk reduction.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate software products that support risk management, risk controls, control workflows, and TORC operational needs.
• Own risk engineering product capabilities end-to-end, including architecture, implementation, deployment, integration, and ongoing operational support in production.
• Write, test, and maintain high‑quality production code across React front ends, Spring Boot services, SQL data layers, and supporting microservices.
• Apply engineering best practices such as test‑driven development, paired programming, code review, automated testing, and continuous integration and deployment.
• Contribute to high‑level and low‑level system and component designs with a focus on scalability, reliability, maintainability, security, and effective risk control outcomes.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt technologies, frameworks, and patterns that improve the usability, performance, resilience, and automation of risk and control products.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, platform teams, control owners, and partner engineering groups to align product capabilities with ACC and enterprise risk needs.
• Participate in agile delivery ceremonies and contribute to a culture of fast feedback, incremental delivery, continuous improvement, and strong production ownership.

Essential Skills

• All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate.
• Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
• A minimum of 3 years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of production systems throughout the full software development lifecycle and hands‑on proficiency in React, Java, and Spring Boot.
• A minimum of 1 year of experience coaching or mentoring engineers, with evidence of improving individual or team technical capability across full‑stack, microservices, or risk product delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to design, develop, and integrate APIs, backend services, REST‑based interfaces, SQL data stores, and event‑driven components using technologies such as Kafka.
• Strong working knowledge of modern development workflows and engineering practices such as test‑driven development, paired programming, automated testing, code review, and continuous integration and deployment.

Desirable Skills

• Working knowledge of risk management, control management, compliance workflows, or technology risk concepts, with the ability to translate business needs into effective product capabilities.
• Experience implementing or integrating authentication, authorization, role‑based access controls, and identity‑based access patterns within applications and services.
• Knowledgeable in secure software development practices, resilient service design, data protection, and testing patterns for business‑critical applications.
• Practical exposure to containerized and cloud‑native environments, including Docker, Kubernetes, and public cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure.
• Exposure to large language models (LLMs), machine learning concepts, or systems that incorporate AI‑driven capabilities to improve productivity, automation, or risk insight generation.
• Ability to leverage AI‑assistant development tools such as Copilot or Cursor responsibly to improve developer productivity, code quality, testing, and documentation.
• Demonstrated commitment to building solutions that balance strong engineering quality, robust risk control outcomes, operational resilience, and an excellent user experience.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job does not have supervisory duties.

Job Posting date

Friday 16th October (11:59pm) #LI-TR3 #LI-Hybrid

Why join us?

Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate’s European Digital Centre of Excellence, a hub for innovation and engineering excellence. We’re recent winners of Best Place to Work in IT (100+ employees) and Best Use of Cloud Services at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards, and we’ve been recognised for our community and sustainability impact with Platinum in the Northern Ireland Environmental Benchmarking Survey. We’re a product‑driven, cloud‑first organisation delivering real outcomes through modern technology, a digital product‑centric talent model, and a culture rooted in engineering excellence.

Our teams work in cross‑functional structures, guided by an outcome‑based delivery approach that accelerates speed, agility, and value. We also invest in you. At Allstate NI, your career growth matters. You’ll have access to our Continuous Learning Hub, designed to support skills development and professional advancement through tailored learning paths, certifications, and mentoring opportunities. Whether you’re deepening technical expertise or exploring leadership roles, we provide the tools and support to help you thrive.

What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary, our reward package includes:

• Corporate bonus scheme
• Pension scheme
• Annual performance‑related pay reviews
• Life assurance and income protection
• Flexible working options
• Hybrid working
• Private medical and dental insurance
• Access to an employee assistance programme
• Discounted gym membership
• Two paid volunteering days each year
• Cycle to work scheme

Be part of a high‑performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way. At Allstate, we work hard to help people live a good life every day. Allstaters are dedicated to serving clients, customers, and communities, which allows employees to find meaning and value in their work. Allstate offers an environment that fosters innovative thinking where you’ll be able to explore your ideas and feel proud of the work you do. Allstate helps protect nearly 16 million households with auto, home, life, and retirement products. We want every professional connected to Allstate to be committed to giving our customers the best and that means finding the best talent.

We want you to be our next great addition.