Managing Engineer, Software Engineering
Allstate
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Job summary
Allstate is seeking a Managing Engineer to architect and design digital products, lead technical teams, and own production success. You will apply systematic engineering practices to design, implement, test, and document software while ensuring KPI-driven outcomes.
You will drive testing strategies, CI/CD pipelines, pair programming, and TDD, collaborating with product managers to align on backlogs and priorities.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, product engineering, or similar skill.
- Strong proficiency in Java 17+ and Spring Boot 3.x+.
- Understanding of frontend engineering – ReactJS/AngularJS/Typescript.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs and distributed systems.
- Experience building microservices and event-driven systems (Kafka preferred).
- Understanding of cloud and hybrid environments (Azure, AWS).
- Experience with relational/NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with OpenAPI/JSON/AVSC schema standards.
- Practice Test-Driven Development (TDD) and secure development principles.
- CI/CD experience with Jenkins and GitHub Actions; Docker and Kubernetes.
Responsibilities
- Leads and participates in knowledge sharing and contribute to the growth of team and organizational engineering practices
- Leads Design, build, and enhance software products
- Leads and participates in design and implement testing strategies to validate acceptance criteria
- Leads and promotes pair programming and test-driven development as part of daily engineering work
- Collaborate with the team on system and application design, selecting effective technical solutions
- Leads iteration planning and ensures shared understanding of backlog stories and technical requirements
- Leads daily standups, cross-site collaboration, and product team ceremonies
- Collaborate with other digital product teams and clearly communicate technical designs
- Leads and participates in retrospectives, encouraging feedback with empathy
- Serves as technical lead; guides technology choices and resolves conflicts
- Establishes CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices
- Leads cross-product strategy alignment with product managers and stakeholders
- Acts as expert across multiple business domains and technology stacks
Skills
Tools
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.
The Managing Engineer architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. They own and manage running their application in production and ultimately becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs. The Managing Engineer plans, directs, designs, and executes IT-related activities and programs that are of a complex and critical nature. The Managing Engineer selects, leads, counsels, motivates, sets expectations and evaluates medium to large teams. Additionally, they confer with and advise direct reports on administrative policies and procedures, risks, issues, problem resolution, sourcing decisions, budget and priorities.
- Leads and participates in knowledge sharing and contribute to the growth of team and organizational engineering practices
- Leads Design, build, and enhance software products
- Leads and participates in Design and implement testing strategies to validate acceptance criteria
- Leads and promotes pair programming practice and test-driven development (TDD) as part of daily engineering work
- Collaborate with the team on system and application design, selecting the simplest and most effective technical solutions
- Leads iteration planning, ensuring a shared understanding of backlog stories and technical requirements
- Leads daily standups, cross-site collaboration, and product team ceremonies
- Collaborate with other digital product teams and clearly communicate technical designs
- Leads and participates in retrospectives, demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy
- Serves as the anchor of the team and practices technical leadership; helping guide the team in choosing the right technology, solving technical problems, and resolving any technical conflicts within the team
- Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
- Leads collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders
- Serves as an expert on multiple business domain and a distinguished advocate of multiple technology stacks and shares that knowledge across organizations
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering, product engineering, or similar skill.
- Strong proficiency in Java 17+ and Spring Boot 3.x+
- Strong proficiency in JVM and Application Performance Architecture/Management
- Understanding of frontend engineering – ReactJS/AngularJS/Typescript
- Understanding of building responsive, accessible, data-driven User Experiences
- Strong understanding of REST APIs and distributed systems
- Experience building microservices and event-driven systems (Kafka preferred)
- Understanding of cloud and hybrid environment(s), including Azure, AWS, and various on-premises systems
- Experience with relational/NoSQL databases
- Familiarity with schema standards (OpenAPI/JSON/AVSC)
- Practice Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Strong understanding of secure development
- Comfortable working in a pair-programming (XP) environment
- CI/CD experience (Jenkins/GitHub Actions), Docker, Kubernetes
- Leverage Datadog or similar tools for application monitoring and troubleshooting
- Working knowledge of Python
- Understanding of MongoDB Performance Tuning
- Understanding and ability to leverage, and or build, generative and agentic AI tooling to build solutions
- This job has supervisory duties.
- Accountability, Accountability, AngularJS, Application Design, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Application Monitoring, Application Performance, Budgeting, Business Software, Collaboration, Communication, Computer Science, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integrations, Design, Docker (Software), Documentations, Engineering Software, GitHub Actions, Give Feedback, Java (Programming Language), JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), Key Performance Indicators (KPI), Kubernetes {+ 18 more}
Compensation offered for this role is 120,000.00 - 193,725.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level.
One that encourages you to challenge the status quo.
One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you.
Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.
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Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse. Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs. When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload. To help create a more personal and engaging experience, we ask that you join with your camera on if your interview is virtual. Please also have a Valid Photo Identification available at the start of your interview. If you require any accommodations or have questions ahead of your interview please reach out to your recruiter. Note: Internal candidates are only asked to join on video; a Valid Photo Identification is not needed for the interview.
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.
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.
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