Managing Engineer, Software Engineering -Remote

Overview

The Managing Engineer architects and designs digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems, owns their production running, and is accountable for achieving product KPIs. The role leads medium to large engineering teams.

What you'll do

• Lead and participate in knowledge sharing and contribute to the growth of team and organizational engineering practices
• Lead the design, build, and enhancement of software products
• Lead and participate in designing and implementing testing strategies to validate acceptance criteria
• Lead and promote pair programming 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
• Lead iteration planning, ensuring a shared understanding of backlog stories and technical requirements
• Lead daily standups, cross-site collaboration, and product team ceremonies
• Collaborate with other digital product teams and clearly communicate technical designs
• Lead and participate in retrospectives, encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy
• Serve as the anchor of the team and practice technical leadership, guiding technology choices, solving technical problems, and resolving technical conflicts
• Establish continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
• Lead collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios in partnership with product managers, peers and key stakeholders
• Serve as an expert on multiple business domains and an advocate of multiple technology stacks, sharing that knowledge across organizations
• Plan, direct, design, and execute complex and critical IT-related activities and programs
• Select, lead, counsel, motivate, set expectations for, and evaluate medium to large teams
• Confer with and advise direct reports on administrative policies and procedures, risks, issues, problem resolution, sourcing decisions, budget and priorities
• Own and manage the running of applications in production

What you'll need

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, product engineering, or a 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
• Understanding of cloud and hybrid environments, including Azure, AWS, and various on-premises systems
• Experience with relational/NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with schema standards (OpenAPI/JSON/AVSC)
• Practice of 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

Nice to have

• 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
• Kafka experience

Details

• Location: US, Remote
• This role has supervisory duties
• Compensation: $120,000.00 - $193,725.00 annually, based on experience and qualifications
• Candidates offered this position must submit to a background investigation
• Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position