Allstate
Software Managing Engineer (Java)
Role overview
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.
Your role in the team
The Managing Engineer will lead a team focused on replatforming legacy products onto our modern tech stacks. They will be responsible for software design and development which includes, configuration, integration and support of a portfolio of applications. The Managing Engineer collaborates with engineers, DPMs, and business architects to deliver high-performing high-quality software products in an agile setting.
The Managing Engineer architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They own and manage running their applications in production, and ultimately become accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving key performance indicators. Additionally, they advise direct reports on administrative policies and procedures, risks, issues, problem resolution, and priorities. The managing engineer influences team and business results.
Key Responsibilities
- Leads and participates in retrospectives, demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy.
- Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.
- Leads and participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the DPM.
- Acts as a player coach in leading by example in day-to-day execution of the build out of technical product capabilities.
- Coach and develop a high-performing team, empowering engineers and driving impactful outcomes and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products.
- 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.
- Collaborates on strategy across product portfolios in partnership with DPMs, other peers and key stakeholders.
- Leads and participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the Engineering community.
- Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices and advocates for a strong culture through personal behaviors and coaching.
- Evaluates engineer skillsets, sets development plans, and strengthens technical and product knowledge within the team.
Essential Skills
- All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
- 4 or more years of hands-on experience with software development and/or configuration and accountability with architecting, designing, implementing applications, including microservices architectures
Desirable Skills
- Experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs, testing and management, experience using API gateways a plus.
- Strong Java development skills preferably with experience in Spring
- Experience in mentoring or leading software engineer
- 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.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- This has supervisory duties.
Posting end date – Friday the 28th February 2025
#LI-EM2 #Hybrid
Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good.
You’ll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, we’ve proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live.
Good Hands. Greater Together.
What we offer
As Digital DNA’s Workplace of the Year 2020 & 2022 winners, we offer a generous benefits package that includes flexible annual leave entitlement, dental and healthcare insurance, an attractive pension package and discounts on gym memberships, public transport and parking.
Allstate invests heavily in your development, as an employee you will have access to multiple world-class learning platforms and courses from our award-winning in-house Learning & Development team.
We pride ourselves in providing clear career paths and opportunities for internal mobility allowing you to further develop within the organisation.
We encourage a better work life balance and you’ll have the opportunity to apply for various flexible working arrangements.
Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities
Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit.
Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.
Posting End Date:
20 February 2025
Keys to Success
At Allstate, it’s all about teamwork, flexibility, and thinking ahead. We all contribute to the bigger picture, combining unique ideas to design innovative, more affordable protection solutions for customers.
We look for candidates with these skills to help us achieve that goal:
Learning agility
Quickly adapt to new situations, continually build new skills, experiment, and embrace new ways of doing things
Customer centricity
Deliver exceptional experience with a customer-first mindset and human-centered design
Digital literacy
Discover and apply emerging digital technology tools, data and insights.
Results-oriented
Start with measurable outcomes and drive results with speed
Inclusive leadership
Integrate diverse viewpoints into decision-making processes to enhance creativity and innovation
Together, we’re all working toward Our Shared Purpose, using our strengths to make a real difference for our people, our customers, our company, and the world around us.
Working in Sales
What We Do:
As an expert on our products and services, you can give customers personalized attention and innovative solutions to make their lives easier.
How We Support You:
Starting day one, you’ll have access to resources and incentives to keep you feeling challenged and excited about your careers.
Make An Impact:
As a member of our sales team, you’ll bring a sense of ease and support to customers looking for a better understanding of their protection options. Whether in the field or talking to customers over the phone, you’ll continue to build trust in who we are and what we do.
Working together
You’re in Good Hands ® is more than a promise we make to our customers. It’s a promise we make our employees, too.
As part of our team, we want you to love where you work, and that starts by giving you the freedom to be yourself. Our workplace flexibility and focus on inclusion creates an environment where you can connect and belong. Our goal is for you to feel trusted, heard and empowered to express yourself. When you thrive, we all thrive. And this year, we’re proud to share that we’ve been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers For Diversity, and one of America’s Best Large Employers.
When you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to push your skills to the next level each day. Our dedication to continuous learning ensures that you have access to development programs designed to propel your career forward. As you learn and grow, so do we.
Working here also means getting the chance to do meaningful work and make a real impact in your community. We have been driving change for over 90 years, but the mark we leave on the world, can be even greater when we work together.
Good Hands. Greater Together.
Role overview
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.
Your role in the team
The Managing Engineer will lead a team focused on replatforming legacy products onto our modern tech stacks. They will be responsible for software design and development which includes, configuration, integration and support of a portfolio of applications. The Managing Engineer collaborates with engineers, DPMs, and business architects to deliver high-performing high-quality software products in an agile setting.
The Managing Engineer architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They own and manage running their applications in production, and ultimately become accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving key performance indicators. Additionally, they advise direct reports on administrative policies and procedures, risks, issues, problem resolution, and priorities. The managing engineer influences team and business results.
Key Responsibilities
- Leads and participates in retrospectives, demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy.
- Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.
- Leads and participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the DPM.
- Acts as a player coach in leading by example in day-to-day execution of the build out of technical product capabilities.
- Coach and develop a high-performing team, empowering engineers and driving impactful outcomes and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products.
- 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.
- Collaborates on strategy across product portfolios in partnership with DPMs, other peers and key stakeholders.
- Leads and participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the Engineering community.
- Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices and advocates for a strong culture through personal behaviors and coaching.
- Evaluates engineer skillsets, sets development plans, and strengthens technical and product knowledge within the team.
Essential Skills
- All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
- 4 or more years of hands-on experience with software development and/or configuration and accountability with architecting, designing, implementing applications, including microservices architectures
Desirable Skills
- Experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs, testing and management, experience using API gateways a plus.
- Strong Java development skills preferably with experience in Spring
- Experience in mentoring or leading software engineer
- 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.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- This has supervisory duties.
Posting end date – Friday the 28th February 2025
#LI-EM2 #Hybrid
Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good.
You’ll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, we’ve proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live.
Good Hands. Greater Together.
What we offer
As Digital DNA’s Workplace of the Year 2020 & 2022 winners, we offer a generous benefits package that includes flexible annual leave entitlement, dental and healthcare insurance, an attractive pension package and discounts on gym memberships, public transport and parking.
Allstate invests heavily in your development, as an employee you will have access to multiple world-class learning platforms and courses from our award-winning in-house Learning & Development team.
We pride ourselves in providing clear career paths and opportunities for internal mobility allowing you to further develop within the organisation.
We encourage a better work life balance and you’ll have the opportunity to apply for various flexible working arrangements.
Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities
Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit.
Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.
Posting End Date:
20 February 2025
Keys to Success
At Allstate, it’s all about teamwork, flexibility, and thinking ahead. We all contribute to the bigger picture, combining unique ideas to design innovative, more affordable protection solutions for customers.
We look for candidates with these skills to help us achieve that goal:
Learning agility
Quickly adapt to new situations, continually build new skills, experiment, and embrace new ways of doing things
Customer centricity
Deliver exceptional experience with a customer-first mindset and human-centered design
Digital literacy
Discover and apply emerging digital technology tools, data and insights.
Results-oriented
Start with measurable outcomes and drive results with speed
Inclusive leadership
Integrate diverse viewpoints into decision-making processes to enhance creativity and innovation
Together, we’re all working toward Our Shared Purpose, using our strengths to make a real difference for our people, our customers, our company, and the world around us.
Working in Claims
What We Do:
Your ability to quickly and calmly make smart decisions can make a huge difference in how confident customers feel throughout the claims process. And as you support our customers, we’re there to support you.
How We Support You:
We empower your success starting day one. You’ll have access to everything you need to grow professionally while helping our customers get their lives back on track.
Make An Impact:
Helping customers with their claims is about learning their stories, not just processing their paperwork. You can take pride in the fact that you’re providing invaluable guidance and helping to build continued trust in our company.
Working together
You’re in Good Hands ® is more than a promise we make to our customers. It’s a promise we make our employees, too.
As part of our team, we want you to love where you work, and that starts by giving you the freedom to be yourself. Our workplace flexibility and focus on inclusion creates an environment where you can connect and belong. Our goal is for you to feel trusted, heard and empowered to express yourself. When you thrive, we all thrive. And this year, we’re proud to share that we’ve been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers For Diversity, and one of America’s Best Large Employers.
When you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to push your skills to the next level each day. Our dedication to continuous learning ensures that you have access to development programs designed to propel your career forward. As you learn and grow, so do we.
Working here also means getting the chance to do meaningful work and make a real impact in your community. We have been driving change for over 90 years, but the mark we leave on the world, can be even greater when we work together.
Good Hands. Greater Together.
Role overview
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.
Your role in the team
The Managing Engineer will lead a team focused on replatforming legacy products onto our modern tech stacks. They will be responsible for software design and development which includes, configuration, integration and support of a portfolio of applications. The Managing Engineer collaborates with engineers, DPMs, and business architects to deliver high-performing high-quality software products in an agile setting.
The Managing Engineer architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They own and manage running their applications in production, and ultimately become accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving key performance indicators. Additionally, they advise direct reports on administrative policies and procedures, risks, issues, problem resolution, and priorities. The managing engineer influences team and business results.
Key Responsibilities
- Leads and participates in retrospectives, demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy.
- Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.
- Leads and participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the DPM.
- Acts as a player coach in leading by example in day-to-day execution of the build out of technical product capabilities.
- Coach and develop a high-performing team, empowering engineers and driving impactful outcomes and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products.
- 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.
- Collaborates on strategy across product portfolios in partnership with DPMs, other peers and key stakeholders.
- Leads and participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the Engineering community.
- Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices and advocates for a strong culture through personal behaviors and coaching.
- Evaluates engineer skillsets, sets development plans, and strengthens technical and product knowledge within the team.
Essential Skills
- All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
- 4 or more years of hands-on experience with software development and/or configuration and accountability with architecting, designing, implementing applications, including microservices architectures
Desirable Skills
- Experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs, testing and management, experience using API gateways a plus.
- Strong Java development skills preferably with experience in Spring
- Experience in mentoring or leading software engineer
- 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.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- This has supervisory duties.
Posting end date – Friday the 28th February 2025
#LI-EM2 #Hybrid
Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good.
You’ll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, we’ve proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live.
Good Hands. Greater Together.
What we offer
As Digital DNA’s Workplace of the Year 2020 & 2022 winners, we offer a generous benefits package that includes flexible annual leave entitlement, dental and healthcare insurance, an attractive pension package and discounts on gym memberships, public transport and parking.
Allstate invests heavily in your development, as an employee you will have access to multiple world-class learning platforms and courses from our award-winning in-house Learning & Development team.
We pride ourselves in providing clear career paths and opportunities for internal mobility allowing you to further develop within the organisation.
We encourage a better work life balance and you’ll have the opportunity to apply for various flexible working arrangements.
Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities
Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit.
Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.
Posting End Date:
20 February 2025
Keys to Success
At Allstate, it’s all about teamwork, flexibility, and thinking ahead. We all contribute to the bigger picture, combining unique ideas to design innovative, more affordable protection solutions for customers.
We look for candidates with these skills to help us achieve that goal:
Learning agility
Quickly adapt to new situations, continually build new skills, experiment, and embrace new ways of doing things
Customer centricity
Deliver exceptional experience with a customer-first mindset and human-centered design
Digital literacy
Discover and apply emerging digital technology tools, data and insights.
Results-oriented
Start with measurable outcomes and drive results with speed
Inclusive leadership
Integrate diverse viewpoints into decision-making processes to enhance creativity and innovation
Together, we’re all working toward Our Shared Purpose, using our strengths to make a real difference for our people, our customers, our company, and the world around us.
Working together
You’re in Good Hands ® is more than a promise we make to our customers. It’s a promise we make our employees, too.
As part of our team, we want you to love where you work, and that starts by giving you the freedom to be yourself. Our workplace flexibility and focus on inclusion creates an environment where you can connect and belong. Our goal is for you to feel trusted, heard and empowered to express yourself. When you thrive, we all thrive. And this year, we’re proud to share that we’ve been recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers For Diversity, and one of America’s Best Large Employers.
When you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to push your skills to the next level each day. Our dedication to continuous learning ensures that you have access to development programs designed to propel your career forward. As you learn and grow, so do we.
Working here also means getting the chance to do meaningful work and make a real impact in your community. We have been driving change for over 90 years, but the mark we leave on the world, can be even greater when we work together.
Good Hands. Greater Together.SM
Benefits
Experience the benefits that make Allstate a great place to work.
*Benefits vary based on position.
Health
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- HSAs and FSAs
- Wellbeing programs
- Free therapy sessions
Retirement
- 401(k) plan
- Pension plan
- Free financial counseling
Work-life balance
- Paid time off
- Work flexibility
Career development
- Talent shares
- Tuition reimbursement
- Learning opportunities
For a full description of Allstate’s benefits visit our benefits page
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