Managing Engineer (Java Engineering)

Overview

Lead high-performing software engineering teams building and modernizing enterprise applications that support Allstate's Roadside Services business operations. This is a hands-on leadership role that includes active Java coding alongside people leadership.

What you'll do

• Lead, coach, and develop software engineering teams, providing mentorship, career guidance, and ongoing performance feedback.
• Remain hands-on with Java engineering by contributing production-quality code, reviewing code, troubleshooting complex issues, and supporting technical delivery.
• Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Security, and business leaders to translate strategic goals into technology solutions.
• Guide teams through product discovery, planning, prioritization, and delivery activities within Agile environments.
• Establish and evolve application architectures, technical roadmaps, and engineering standards.
• Drive engineering excellence through modern development practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, DevOps, observability, and secure coding.
• Ensure applications are scalable, secure, reliable, and effectively supported in production.
• Remove technical and organizational obstacles, helping teams effectively execute against priorities and commitments.
• Lead retrospectives and continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen delivery, quality, and team effectiveness.
• Foster collaboration across engineering teams to improve consistency, reusability, and organizational alignment.
• Support workforce planning, recruiting, onboarding, succession planning, and talent development activities.
• Define and monitor key engineering metrics related to quality, delivery, reliability, and operational performance.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to technology and business stakeholders on software engineering best practices and emerging technologies.

What you'll need

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading engineering teams delivering enterprise applications and services (or equivalent).
• Experience managing or leading software engineers in Agile development environments (or equivalent).
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to remain hands-on with coding while leading and developing an engineering team.
• Strong hands-on Java and Spring Boot development experience, including designing, coding, testing, and troubleshooting enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, microservices, distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native application development.
• Experience with relational database technologies.
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience supporting applications in production with a focus on reliability, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills.
• Experience leading technical planning, estimation, prioritization, and execution activities.
• Proven success attracting, developing, mentoring, and retaining engineering talent.
• Experience partnering with Product Management and business stakeholders to deliver customer-focused solutions.

Nice to have

• Experience leading development teams utilizing React, Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Oracle, and microservices architectures.
• Experience supporting distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and high-volume transactional applications.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Kubernetes-based environments.
• Knowledge of object-oriented design, domain-driven design, API-first development, and secure coding principles.
• Experience implementing automated testing strategies, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices.
• Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or similar platforms.
• Experience leading application modernization initiatives, including cloud migrations and monolith-to-microservices transformations.
• Strong understanding of application monitoring, logging, performance optimization, and reliability engineering.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional technology and business leaders to define roadmaps and deliver strategic outcomes.
• Experience within insurance, claims, financial services, warranty services, or other highly regulated industries.

Details

• Direct people leadership role with supervisory responsibilities: managing and developing engineering talent, performance management, hiring and onboarding, succession planning, and talent retention.
• Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
• Candidates offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
• Compensation: 120,000.00 - 193,725.00 annually, based on experience and qualifications.