Senior Engineer – Telematics (Android)

GEICO • Chevy Chase, MD

1d • $105,000 - $215,000

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 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 knowledge of emerging technologies to drive business results, enhance our customer’s online experience, impact bottom-line operations and deliver award-winning apps to the Play Store.

Requirements

• Advanced programming experience in Kotlin, in building and deploying Android applications
• Experience architecting and designing new and current systems
• Strong desire and commitment to learning new technologies quickly
• Excellent analytical skills and problem-solving ability
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
• Understanding of Operational Portals such as Azure DevOps Portal
• Understanding or exposure to continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
• Understanding or experience with Gradle
• Advanced understanding of monitoring concepts and tooling
• Advanced understanding of security protocols and products
• 4+ years of professional software development experience building native Android Applications
• 3+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Nice To Haves

• Understanding or experience working on location services, core motion and activity tracking
• Understanding of various core concepts like foreground, background processing, background task management, multithread programming and resource optimization techniques
• Basic understanding of telematics data
• Experience with application monitoring tools, debugging, logging and performance assessments
• Understanding or experience leveraging performance analysis tools to optimize code toward performance improvements
• Understanding or experience in using Mobile UI and API Automation scripting frameworks/tools like Appium.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable, high-quality features for our product.
• Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle
• Utilize programming languages like Kotlin, Java, SQL, and NoSQL databases
• Collaborate as a team and work with minimal oversight

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level