Software Engineer Associate Manager

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

Job Description

The Software Engineer Associate Manager will lead a team responsible for software design and development efforts for the Law & Regulations department. The role entails overseeing the development, configuration, integration and support of a portfolio of applications for the Corporate division within Law&Reg including the Legal Data & Analytics platform. The Software Engineering Manager collaborates with engineers, designers, and business architects to deliver high-performing high-quality software products in an agile setting.

The Software Engineering Manager architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. They own and manage running their applications in production, and ultimately become accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs. The Software Engineer manager plans, directs, designs, and executes IT-related activities. The Software Engineer Manager selects, leads, counsels, motivates, sets expectations, and evaluates small to medium size team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads the effort of shaping the architecture and design of the product.

• Participate in product scoping, discovery and framing, and inceptions providing technical input and helps translate user features into system design.

• Leads and participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the digital product manager.

• Leads and participates in daily ceremonies including product team standups.

• Leads collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers, and key stakeholders.

• Coach and develop a high-performing team, empowering engineers and driving impactful outcomes.

• Serves as the anchor of the team and practices technical leadership; helping guide the team in choosing the right technology, solving technical problems, and resolving any technical conflicts within the team.

• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and technical best practices within the team.

• Leads and participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the Engineering community.

• Evaluates engineer skillsets, sets development plans, and strengthens technical and product knowledge within the team.

Functional Skills:

• Hands on experience with software development and/or configuration and accountability with architecting, designing, implementing  applications, including microservices architectures.

• Strong Java development skills preferably with experience in Spring 

• Experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs including tooling for documentation (Swagger, REST-docs, Open Api spec), versioning, service discovery/registration, testing and management; experience using API gateways a plus.

• Experience with data modeling and familiarity with XML and JSON schema standards

• Experience in backend development design and implementation; database (relational, NoSQL, caching), distributed messaging systems, security best practices, performance analysis and tuning

• Knowledge using distributed version control systems (git), artifact management systems, build and packaging systems (Maven, Gradle, Artifactory, etc ) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, etc).

• Experience developing continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines for distributed apps.

• Experience working in an agile work environment across organizational and geographical boundaries.

Education and Experience:

• 5+ years of designing and developing technical solutions with 3+years’ experience in mentoring or leading software engineers.  (Preferred)

• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Supervisory Responsibilities: