Senior Engineer, Software (SWE) – GIA Platform

Why Join GEICO ?

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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.

Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. 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: 

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Collaborate with product managers, internal & external business partners, peers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems in our partner integration platform

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Contribute toour technical roadmap and execute software development strategy to enhance the capabilities of various platform components.

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Champion software development best practices and safe deployment processes to enable continuous, incremental delivery of business values.

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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)

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Act as a technical project lead and collaborate with partnering teams as well as communicate with cross-discipline stakeholders on a regular basis

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Leverage data to measuresuccess,identify opportunities, and recommend solutions.

Qualifications  

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Advance knowledge of at least one modern OOP language (Go is preferred, .Net is a plus)

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Extensive first-hand experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly scalable, available and reliable system in production

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Strong Test-Driven Development practices (e.g., unit, functional, integration, load, etc.) 

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In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms 

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Understanding of security best practices (e.g., certificates, encryption) 

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Familiarwith relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.

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Familiar with No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis,etc.

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Experience in architecting, designing, building automation, workflows, and distributed applications

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Strong understanding of service integrations/communication standards (e.g., gRPC/RESTful)

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Experience in building and maintainingCI/CDwith IaaC

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Experience in solving complex problems with quantitative approach

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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) 

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Knowledge ofKubernetes, containers, and best practices on a K8s environment