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GEICO · 4 months ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer- GIA Platform (REMOTE)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$130K/yr - $260K/yr

10+ years exp

GEICO is a leading insurance company dedicated to providing quality coverage to millions of customers. They are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to drive the technical roadmap for the GIA Platform organization, focusing on building and enhancing systems to improve customer experience and operational efficiency.

Auto InsuranceFinancial ServicesGovernmentInsuranceInternetMobile

No H1B

Responsibilities

Develop and drive the overall technical roadmap for the GIA Platform organization, aligning it with the organization's business goals and objectives

Work closely with executive leadership, tech teams, and other cross-discipline stakeholders to build optimal strategy for delivering platform services

Leverage technical and domain expertise to influence partners and leadership to create a force multiplier in achieving milestones in the team’s technical roadmap

Provide thought leadership in GIA Platform, staying ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies to create effective strategy that minimizes business disruption while balancing the modernization of legacy platform components

Lead the design and architecture of resilient and scalable platform services, considering both on-premises and cloud-based solutions

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)

Develop and maintain comprehensive incident response plans to address various disaster scenarios across multiple partner integration points

Spearhead collaboration with various stakeholders in production readiness assessment and operational excellence

Hands-on software engineering and SDLC best practices (Technical Review Documents, Architecture, Software Development, Code Reviews, Testing, Production Readiness Reviews, among others)

Evaluate, select, and implement modern technologies and tools to enhance our integration with various partners including but not limited to processes, compliance, and visibility

Stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies to continuously improve our partner integration platform capabilities

Act as a trusted advisor to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community

Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans

Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning

Qualification

GoCloud architectureDevOps practicesIncident managementSQLNoSQLInfrastructure automationSecurity best practicesAnalytical skillsLeadership skillsProblem-solving abilities

Required

Fluency in at least one modern language (Go is preferred, .Net is a plus)

Proven track record of designing, implementing, and maintaining highly scalable, available and reliable system in production

Understanding of security best practices and data encryption technology

Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, including stateful services management and storage

Understanding of networking, caches, key/value stores, load balancing, global load balancing, queues, DNS and CDN

Deep knowledge of DevOps practices, methodologies, and principles, along with a solid understanding of on prem and public cloud-based network, compute, and storage technologies

In-depth knowledge of hybrid cloud architecture, IaaS and PaaS technologies, container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes), cloud efficiency and observability etc

Strong background in incident management

Ability to create incident response playbooks, runbooks, incident triaging strategies, and post-incident analysis to drive continuous improvement in system reliability and availability

Experience with open-source management and monitoring tools

Experience with infrastructure automation, tooling, and configuration management frameworks (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Pulumi, Terraform, etc.)

Familiarity with cloud security best practices and compliance standards

Excellent leadership skills with a passion for mentoring and fostering professional growth

Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a keen eye for detail and a passion for driving operational excellence

Visionary thinker with the ability to anticipate future challenges and opportunities

Exceptional leadership and communication skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities

Proven track record of successfully leading and building software in large and complex organizations

10+ years of professional experience in software development

8+ years of experience with architecture and design

6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud service providers

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.

Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.

Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.

Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

Company

GEICO

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GEICO, Government Employees Insurance Company, has been providing affordable auto insurance since 1936. It is a sub-organization of Berkshire Hathaway.

Founded in 1936

Chase, Maryland, USA

10001+ employees