Senior Software Engineering Manager - Distributed Systems

Allstate Insurance Company; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 193,725; Full time

Job summary

Allstate Insurance Company is seeking a Software Engineer Manager to lead a team of engineers, design reference architectures, and drive adoption of scalable patterns across enterprise platforms.

You will partner with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to deliver high‑quality, production‑grade references and exemplars, while guiding architectural decisions and ensuring performance and security standards.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience in enterprise-scale applications.
• 2+ years in technical leadership, team leadership, or people management.
• Strong proficiency in Java and experience building distributed applications and services.
• Experience developing cloud-native applications in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with container technologies and Kubernetes-based deployments.
• Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, and service integration patterns.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, messaging platforms, or asynchronous processing frameworks.
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts including scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver technical solutions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence engineering decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers.
• Design and deliver reference architectures, sample applications, and reusable implementation patterns.
• Partner with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to address real‑world engineering challenges.
• Provide technical leadership for architecture, design reviews, and implementation decisions.
• Promote engineering best practices related to scalability, resilience, security, and maintainability.
• Build understanding of platform dependencies (e.g., caching, messaging, networking, identity, observability).
• Drive adoption of reusable patterns and standards across engineering teams.
• Participate in coding, prototyping, and troubleshooting activities as needed.
• Manage staffing, prioritization, delivery planning, and team performance.
• Influence engineering standards and platform adoption across the organization.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

APIs & microservices

Cloud-native apps

Kubernetes

Event-driven architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Leadership

Problem solving

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

Redis

APIs

Job description

Allstate Insurance Company is seeking a Software Engineer Manager to lead a team of engineers, design reference architectures, and drive adoption of scalable patterns across enterprise platforms.

You will partner with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to deliver high‑quality, production‑grade references and exemplars, while guiding architectural decisions and ensuring performance and security standards.