Job Specifications
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 Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.
Position Description
Our Senior Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Engineer, You Will
Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems.
Design, Develop and implement enterprise data governance solutions.
Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution
Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle
Lead in design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
Define, create, and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective
Mentor other engineers
Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
Qualifications
Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
Expertise in Python and Typescript/JavaScript. Experience with other programming languages like Java/ Kotlin or Golang, React (Clean Architecture) or Angular and GIT
Experience in backend development: Develop backend micro-services using RESTful APIs, Graph QL, BFF (Backend for Frontend), ORMs, orchestration frameworks like Airflow, Fast API, Spring Boot framework and/or other Spring technologies
Experience developing and scaling open-source applications such as Datahub, Soda, DBT, etc.
Experience with modern software development tools including VS code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor and Claude to enhance coding efficiency
Experience with Open-Source Data Governance solutions like Datahub a plus
Experience in the complete software development life cycle and knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
Experience with container orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and various Azure tools and services
Experience with relational and non-relational database technologies (SQL, Snowflake, Oracle, Cosmos DB, Postgres, NoSQL etc.)
Experience with Load test tooling (Gatling or equivalent)
Experience with monitoring Data Observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus or equivalents
Advanced understanding of DevOps concepts including Azure DevOps framework, CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Gradle, Artifactory, Microsoft Azure DevOps
Experience working on different operating systems like Linux (Alpine, Ubuntu, Red Hat) & Windows
Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
Advanced shell scripting skills
Advanced understanding of monitoring concepts and tooling
Strong problem-solving ability
Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment
Annual Salary
$100,000.00 - $215,000.00
The 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.
At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The GEICO Pledge
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About the Company
GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) offers a variety of insurance such as vehicle, property, business, life, umbrella, travel, pet, jewelry and more. The company, which was founded in 1936, is the third-largest auto insurer in the United States and insures vehicles in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. GEICO, a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies, constantly strives to make lives better by protecting people against unexpected events while saving them money and providing an outstanding customer e...
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