Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Allstate Insurance Co. is seeking a Managing Engineer to lead a team focused on software development and container workloads. This role involves designing and building reference applications, promoting engineering best practices, and influencing organizational standards while also being a hands-on technical leader.
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
- 7 years or more of software engineering experience building enterprise-scale applications and services
- 2 years or more of technical leadership, team leadership, or people management experience. (Or Equivalent)
- 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
- Experience designing enterprise reference architectures, reusable frameworks, or implementation patterns
- Experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms
- Experience with Python, Node.js, JavaScript, or React
- Experience with observability solutions including logging, monitoring, tracing, and performance analysis
- Experience with caching technologies such as Redis or similar platforms
- Experience working on platform engineering, developer platform, or internal developer experience initiatives
- Experience with NoSQL technologies and modern data platform architectures
- Experience evaluating emerging technologies and establishing engineering best practices
- Experience supporting highly regulated or large-scale enterprise environments
- Previous experience leading geographically distributed engineering teams
Benefits
- 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.
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