Managing Engineer

ce in the communities in which it operates through partnerships with charitable organizations, employee giving and volunteerism. Serving Canadians since 1953, Allstate strives to provide reassurance with its "You're in Good Hands®" promise.

Through our core values, Opportunity, Flexibility, Community, Diversity and Family, we have worked hard to develop and nurture a culture where employees feel valued, experience personal growth, have career options and truly enjoy the work they do.

Benefits To Joining Allstate

• Flexible Work Arrangements

• Employee discounts (15% on auto and property insurance, plus many other products and services)

• Good Office program (receive up to 400$ back after purchasing office equipment)

• Student Loan Payment Matching Program for Government Student loans

• Comprehensive Retirement Savings Program with employer matched contributions

• Annual Wellness allowance to support employees with improving health and wellbeing

• Personal reflection day

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Working within the community and giving back!

Role Designation: Hybrid with a requirement to go into our Markham office once a week

Job Description

Are you passionate about creating intuitive digital experiences that have real impact? Join us as a Software Engineering Manager and lead the next phase of our platform's evolution. Our myAllstate and Allstate Mobile platforms empower customers to manage their policies anytime, anywhere. You'll play a hands-on technical leadership role, driving the development of innovative self-service features and shaping the future of how our customers interact with us.

In this role, you'll lead a skilled team in developing and enhancing self-service capabilities across Allstate Canada's digital platforms. You'll contribute to both optimizing existing products and building new features aligned with our strategic vision. This role blends hands-on development (60%+) with team leadership, while also helping shape IT policies, best practices, and overall technical direction.

Accountabilities

• Provide technical leadership to build real-time, customer-facing self-service capabilities across digital platforms.

• Guide architecture, system design, and technology decisions, ensuring alignment with product vision and business goals.

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers during discovery, scoping, and planning to translate user needs into scalable solutions.

• Lead agile ceremonies (standups, retrospectives, planning) and foster a culture of feedback, empathy, and continuous improvement.

• Champion engineering best practices, including paired programming, test-driven development, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Mentor and coach team members, supporting their growth through constructive feedback and leadership by example.

• Foster a high-performing, inclusive team environment built on trust, innovation, and accountability.

• Set team strategy and clearly communicate objectives to drive focus and alignment.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience developing and implementing scalable systems

• 2 years in a technical or people leadership role

• Deep expertise in Spring and React frameworks

• 5 years of mobile development experience across iOS and Android

• Strong foundation in object-oriented design, distributed systems, and backend development (including databases, messaging, and caching)

• Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines and applying automated testing and monitoring practices

• Skilled in multiple programming languages with the ability to quickly learn new ones

• Experience leading agile teams and collaborating across cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams

Nice to Have

• Experience building and documenting REST APIs (Swagger, OpenAPI, etc.)

• Background in responsive web and single-page app development for mobile

• Familiarity with test-driven development and frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, Jasmine, or Cucumber

Allstate Canada Group has policies and practices that provide workplace accommodations. If you require accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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