Software Engineer Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL (NOW HIRING)

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 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 application in production, and ultimately becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs. The Software Engineer manager plans, directs, designs, and executes IT-related activities and programs that are of a complex and critical nature. The Software Engineer Manager selects, leads, counsels, motivates, sets expectations and evaluates medium to large teams. Additionally, they confer with and advise direct reports on administrative policies and procedures, risks, issues, problem resolution, sourcing decisions, budget and priorities.Key Responsibilities

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

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

• Leads and participates in retrospectives; demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy.

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

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

• Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.

• 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 practices.

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

• Serves as an expert on multiple business domain and a distinguished advocate of multiple technology stacks and shares that knowledge across organizations.

Experience

• 7 or more years of experience (Preferred)

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job has supervisory duties.

Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, API Development, API Integration, Back-End Development, CI/CD, Cloud Platform, Code Reviews, Communication, Database Administration, Data Logging, Data Management, Debugging, Docker Container, Front-End Development, Git, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), IT Leadership, IT Mentoring, Kubernetes, Load Testing, Microservices Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Monitoring Tools {+ 4 more}

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is 120,000.00 - 193,725.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

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. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

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Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse. Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.

When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.