Staff Engineer, Software Engineer

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 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 Staff Engineer is a lead 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 Staff Engineer, you will:

Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams

Own complete solution across its entire life cycle

Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications

Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions

Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization

Utilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and No

SQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services

Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential

Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams Qualifications

Fluency and specialization C# .Net and at least one additional modern language such as Java, C++, Python including object-oriented design

Experience in building products using micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs

Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems

Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code Fluency in Dev Ops Concepts and Cloud Architecture Experience in leveraging Power Shell scripting

Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments

Experience in security protocols and products:
Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth

In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms

Strong problem-solving ability

Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

Ability to document and improve workflow and system topology using Microsoft Visio

Ability to use Azure Dev Ops (ADO) and document task and story progress, as well as create new tasks and user stories

Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)

Experience

6+ years of professional software development experience within the .NET framework (C# including object-oriented design)

4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks3+ years of experience with architecture and design3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

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