Senior Engineer

GEICO • Palo Alto, CA

2d • $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 Senior 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 technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.

Requirements

• Advanced programming experience with at least two modern languages such as Java, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks, likes of React, NodeJs, Angular, including hooks, state management, and component architecture
• Proven understanding of microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Experience architecting and designing new and current systems
• Advanced understanding of DevOps concepts including Azure DevOps framework and tools
• Advanced PowerShell scripting skills
• Advanced understanding of security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth
• Advanced understanding of security protocols and products
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
• Experience following workflows and writing application interfaces using JavaScript
• Experience developing and maintaining front-end architectures that support user interfaces
• Experience with application design, implementation, maintenance, diagnosis, and correcting issues
• Experience managing security vulnerabilities, and maintaining compliance with industry security standards under minimal direction
• Experience in enterprise-scale Event driver architecture and enterprise grade queue management
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment
• Proficiency in crafting prompts using AI tools for software development tasks
• 4+ years of professional software development experience using React and/or Flutter concepts to implement responsive components of the user interface
• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

Responsibilities

• Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems
• Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution
• Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle
• Lead in design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
• Define, create, and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective
• Utilize programming languages like JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Objective C, C#, Dart, Python, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
• Debug application code and troubleshoot interface software
• Mentor other engineers
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Benefits

• Great Company
• Great Culture
• Great Rewards
• Great Careers
• 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