At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.
Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most.
We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.
When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here.
That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.
Position Summary
GEICO is seeking an experienced senior software engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications.
You will help drive our insurance business transformation and platform engineering domain modernization as we redefine experience for our customers.
Position Description
Our Senior Software Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Staff Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems.
You will lead thestrategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities.
The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise inengineering best practices, extensive experience with DevOps, proven track record indesigning and implementinghighly scalable and available solutions, as well as owning production services and applications.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
Collaborate with product managers, internal & external business partners, peers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problemsin our partner integration platform
Contribute toour technical roadmap and execute software development strategy to enhance the capabilities of various platform components.
Champion software development best practices and safe deployment processes to enable continuous, incremental delivery of business values.
Contribute directly to and leading by example in day-to-day engineering activities (writing feature code and automated tests, raising PRs and reviewing peers’ PRs, developing and managing CI/CD pipelines, production support, among others)
Act as a technical project lead and collaborate with partnering teams as well as communicate with cross-discipline stakeholders on a regular basis
Leverage data to measuresuccess,identify opportunities, and recommend solutions.
Qualifications
Advance knowledge of at least one modern OOP language (Go is preferred, .Net is a plus)
Extensive first-hand experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly scalable, available and reliable system in production
Strong Test-Driven Development practices (e.g., unit, functional, integration, load, etc.)
In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
Understanding of security best practices (e.g., certificates, encryption)
Familiarwith relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
Familiar with No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis,etc.
Experience in architecting, designing, building automation, workflows, and distributed applications
Strong understanding of service integrations/communication standards (e.g., gRPC/RESTful)
Experience in building and maintainingCI/CDwith IaaC
Experience in solving complex problems with quantitative approach
Knowledge of development tools across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)
Knowledge ofKubernetes, containers, and best practices on a K8s environment (including K8s operators)
Experience in open-source tools like Git/Jenkins/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a plus
Experience in supporting high-volume production workloads and managing incidents
Excellent communication skills
Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
Experience:
4+ years of professional experience in software development
3+ years of experience with architecture and design
3+ years of experience with Azure,AWS, GCP, or hybrid data center
2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
Education:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
Annual Salary
$105,000.00 - $215,000.00The above annual salary range is a general guideline.
Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate.
Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns.
Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.
We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success.
From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.
Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind.
You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.
Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset.
Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives.
Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.
As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.
Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.