Managing Engineer – (Software Development/Container Workloads)

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

Requirements:

• 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