Senior Engineer, Software (SWE) – GIA Platform

GEICO•Seattle, WA

9d•$105,000 - $215,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Advance knowledge of at least one modern OOP language (Go is preferred, .Net is a plus)
Extensive first-hand experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly scalable, available and reliable system in production
Strong Test-Driven Development practices (e.g., unit, functional, integration, load, etc.)
In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
Understanding of security best practices (e.g., certificates, encryption)
Familiar with relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
Familiar with No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, etc.
Experience in architecting, designing, building automation, workflows, and distributed applications
Strong understanding of service integrations/communication standards (e.g., gRPC/RESTful)
Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD with IaaC
Experience in solving complex problems with quantitative approach
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)
Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and best practices on a K8s environment (including K8s operators)
Experience in supporting high-volume production workloads and managing incidents
Excellent communication skills
Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
4+ years of professional experience in software development
3+ years of experience with architecture and design
3+ years of experience with Azure, AWS, GCP, or hybrid data center
2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Nice To Haves

Go is preferred
.Net is a plus
knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a plus

Responsibilities

Collaborate with product managers, internal & external business partners, peers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems in our partner integration platform
Contribute to our technical roadmap and execute software development strategy to enhance the capabilities of various platform components.
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)
Act as a technical project lead and collaborate with partnering teams as well as communicate with cross-discipline stakeholders on a regular basis
Leverage data to measure success, identify opportunities, and recommend solutions.