Software Engineer Senior Consultant II
Allstate Insurance Company · United States
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
Law & Regulations provides expert legal services that protect Allstate and its customers while supporting compliance with evolving regulatory, privacy, and ethical standards. The organization delivers comprehensive support across claims litigation, legal operations, matter management, document management, and enterprise-wide compliance programs. Through this work, Law & Regulations enables the business to address complex legal and regulatory challenges with confidence, consistency, and integrity.
Role Summary
The Senior Software Engineer is a hands-on Full Stack Developer who leads the design, development, testing, deployment, and operational support of enterprise applications within the Law & Regulations technology ecosystem. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, this role provides technical leadership for secure, resilient, scalable, and cloud-native solutions supporting matter management, legal operations, document management, claims litigation, regulatory compliance, and business process automation.
The engineer translates complex business requirements and user stories into maintainable solutions across React, Java and Spring Boot microservices, APIs, databases, integrations, messaging platforms, and Kubernetes-based cloud environments. The role also drives solution design, code quality, engineering standards, production reliability, mentoring, and continuous improvement while partnering with Legal, Compliance, Product, Architecture, Data, Security, and Engineering teams in an Agile environment
Key ResponsibilitiesTechnical Leadership & Solution Delivery- Lead the end-to-end design, development, testing, deployment, and support of enterprise-scale applications across the full technology stack.
- Own technical designs and implementation decisions for cloud-native applications, microservices, APIs, event-driven integrations, and user interfaces.
- Translate complex legal, compliance, and operational requirements into secure, scalable, maintainable, and supportable solutions.
- Provide technical guidance, conduct design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and promote engineering standards, reusable patterns, and continuous improvement.
- Estimate and plan technical work, identify delivery risks and dependencies, and partner with architects and product teams on roadmaps and modernization initiatives.
Legal Technology & Full Stack Engineering- Design and support matter management, legal operations, case management, document management, claims litigation, workflow, and regulatory compliance solutions.
- Build responsive, accessible web applications using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, Material UI, and contemporary state-management and testing frameworks.
- Develop secure RESTful APIs and cloud-native microservices using Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Data, and related enterprise frameworks.
- Integrate legal platforms with claims systems, document repositories, enterprise services, and data platforms using APIs, Kafka, Azure Service Bus, and event-driven patterns.
- Design and optimize relational and document data models using SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, and DocumentDB.
Cloud, DevOps & Operational Excellence- Design and deploy containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service, and/or Amazon EKS.
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, automated testing, security scanning, and deployment controls.
- Implement authentication, authorization, secrets management, encryption, logging, monitoring, tracing, and observability using enterprise security standards.
- Improve application performance, resiliency, availability, recoverability, and scalability; lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and production remediation.
- Participate in Agile planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, releases, upgrades, incident response, and post-production support.
Required Qualifications- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 5+ years of hands-on full stack development in enterprise Agile environments.
- Advanced proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, microservices architecture, RESTful API design, object-oriented design, and secure coding practices.
- Strong experience with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, responsive design, reusable component patterns, and frontend testing.
- Experience designing distributed, event-driven systems using Kafka, Azure Service Bus, or comparable messaging technologies.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud-native application patterns, and deployments in Microsoft Azure and/or AWS.
- Experience with CI/CD, source control, automated testing, code quality, security scanning, and release automation using GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar tools.
- Strong database experience across relational and NoSQL technologies, including SQL Server or Oracle and MongoDB or DocumentDB.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical design, troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root cause analysis, and improve system reliability and performance.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to explain technical decisions to engineering and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience mentoring engineers, reviewing code, and driving engineering standards and delivery quality.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience with matter management, legal operations, case management, claims, litigation, document management, or regulatory compliance platforms, including TeamConnect or comparable products.
- Experience with Spring Cloud, API gateways, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, enterprise identity providers, Vault or comparable secrets-management platforms.
- Experience with Azure App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Service Bus, ADLS, Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, AWS EKS, Amazon S3, or related cloud services.
- Knowledge of domain-driven design, centralized observability, infrastructure as code, SRE practices, performance engineering, and disaster recovery.
- Experience working in regulated environments with privacy, records management, audit, accessibility, and security requirements.
- Cloud, Kubernetes, Java, security, or architecture certifications are advantageous.
- Required: Demonstrated experience delivering and supporting enterprise-scale applications and integrations throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Preferred: Experience serving as a senior engineer, technical lead, or primary technical owner for complex, cross-functional initiatives.
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Skills
Java (Programming Language), Microservices Architecture, React.js, Software Development, Spring Boot
Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is 90,700.00 - 153,925.00 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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