Software Engineering Manager (Java & Python)

Overview

Lead the architecture, development, integration, and support of Allstate's Legal Technology ecosystem as a hands-on Software Engineering Manager, with roughly 80% of time on software development and technical leadership and 20% on coaching engineers, resource planning, and stakeholder management.

What you'll do

• Lead the architecture, development, integration, and support of Legal Technology products and platforms.
• Design, develop, and maintain cloud-native applications, APIs, integrations, and event-driven services supporting Legal and Regulatory business capabilities.
• Actively contribute to software development through hands-on coding, code reviews, architectural design, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Integrate and orchestrate vendor-provided legal applications with enterprise systems, ensuring scalable, secure, and reliable solutions.
• Drive technical decisions related to cloud platforms, application modernization, data management, integration patterns, and AI services.
• Own product reliability, security, performance, and operational excellence, including incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Partner closely with product managers, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes.
• Design and implement AI-powered solutions using Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, and intelligent automation technologies to enhance legal operations and knowledge management.
• Partner with Legal and Compliance stakeholders to identify opportunities to leverage AI responsibly while maintaining governance, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead experimentation, innovation, and adoption of emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and legal technology solutions.
• Own the reliability, supportability, security, scalability, and performance of Legal Technology products in production.
• Manage vendor relationships, product upgrades, integration initiatives, and platform lifecycle activities.
• Define operational KPIs, service-level objectives, and engineering metrics to ensure platform health and business value realization.
• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of engineers while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Influence stakeholders and engineering teams to adopt modern engineering and AI best practices.

What you'll need

• Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs, and event-driven architectures.
• Proficiency in Python for automation and platform engineering.
• Experience designing and supporting highly available production systems with accountability for reliability, security, and performance.
• Strong experience with enterprise integrations, API management, workflow orchestration, SaaS platforms, and messaging technologies such as Kafka.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, container platforms such as Kubernetes, and cloud-native data services.
• Strong expertise with Microsoft Azure and/or AWS cloud platforms.
• Experience building or integrating AI-powered solutions using Azure OpenAI, LLMs, RAG, vector databases, or related technologies.
• Familiarity with AI frameworks such as LangChain, Semantic Kernel, or similar orchestration platforms.
• Experience working in Agile environments and collaborating directly with business stakeholders.
• 7 or more years of experience (Preferred).

Nice to have

• Experience in Legal Technology, Compliance, Risk Management, Regulatory Technology (RegTech), or similar domains.
• Experience with legal research, document intelligence, contract lifecycle management, eDiscovery, or knowledge management solutions.
• Experience managing relationships with technology vendors and SaaS providers.
• Experience leading cloud modernization, integration, or AI transformation initiatives.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value.
• Experience with AI-driven search, knowledge management, or information retrieval solutions is a plus.

Details

• Location: USA, Illinois (Remote).
• This job has supervisory duties.
• 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.