Data Services Engineer II

Geico Insurance•Chevy Chase, MD

27d

About The Position

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 to join our team and drive our insurance business transformation as we shift from a traditional IT model to a cutting-edge tech organization. As a key member of our team, you will leverage your passion for building high-performance, low-maintenance, and zero-downtime platforms and applications to help us achieve engineering excellence and create a culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement. Position Description As a key member of our engineering staff, the Engineer II plays a critical role in delivering a seamless and high-quality experience to our customers, while ensuring the highest standards of protection and availability across the organization. Thriving in a fast-paced, hyper-growth environment where priorities shift rapidly, this individual must possess a broad and deep technical expertise, spanning front-end UIs, back-end systems, and all points in between, to drive the development of innovative technology products and services that meet the evolving needs of our customers.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of experience with architecture and design
2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

Responsibilities

Under general supervision, DESIGNS and BUILDS high performance, low latency platforms and applications across Business Services, Data, Platform, and Infrastructure Engineering.
SCOPES, DESIGNS, and BUILDS scalable and resilient distributed systems.
ENGAGES in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle.
PARTICIPATES with peers in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization.
UTILIZES programming languages (GO, Python, Java, SQL), cloud datawarehousing platforms (Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery), relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, etc.) NoSQL services (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra), Container Orchestration services (Docker and Kubernetes), in-memory data store (Redis, Valkey), and a variety of Azure tools and services.
SHARES best practices and IMPROVES processes within and across teams.
INFLUENCES product definition and LEVERAGES technical skills to determine solution.
ADHERES to the Code of Conduct, company policies, and operating principles.
MEETS attendance standard at business location to perform necessary job functions and to facilitate interaction with management and co-workers.
MEETS the requirements specified below.
Must be able to, with or without accommodation, perform the essential functions which include, but are not limited to seeing, hearing, typing and speaking
Must be able to use a PC
Must be able to follow complex instructions, resolve conflicts or facilitate conflict resolution, and have strong organization/priority setting skills
Must be able to multi-task
Must be able to learn and apply large amounts of technical and procedural information, and follow processes that have been published
Must be knowledgeable of software coding and following standards and processes that have been published and the guidelines for the design
Must be able to provide system training to team members as needed
Must be able to communicate in a clear, concise, professional oral or written manner, to be understood by customers, clients, co-workers and other employees of the organization
Must be able to perform under pressure and stressful situations
May be required to be on call for production support 24x7
Must be able to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly

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.

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