Senior Software Engineer
Position Summary
GEICO is seeking an experienced 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
- 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
- Utilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
- Mentor other engineers
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
Qualifications
- Advanced programming language experience within open source technologies (Python, Java, C#, C+, Angular, Ruby, Go)
- Proven understanding of microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
- Experience architecting and designing new and current systems
- Advanced understanding of DevOps concepts including Azure DevOps framework and tools
- Advanced PowerShell scripting skills
- Advanced understanding of monitoring concepts and tooling
- Advanced understanding of security protocols and products
- Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
- In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment
- Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
- Architecture assessment and proposals
Experience
- 4+ years of professional software development experience within open source technologies.
- 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
- 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
- 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience