Geico Insurance-posted about 2 months ago
Full-time • Manager
Hybrid • Seattle, WA
5,001-10,000 employees
Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

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. GEICO's PaaS organization continues to grow! We are actively seeking a Senior Staff Engineering Manager to lead the Database Platform team (DBaaS), guiding strategy and execution of building out the relational database platform. Our Senior Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions as well as leverage engineering solutions to solve critical operational problems. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in building database platforms (DBaaS), specifically with open source. At GEICO, our managers are technical members of our team and are expected to work with individual contributors to develop the system design and have the coding skills necessary to implement the solution.

  • Lead the team responsible for designing, building and operating SQL/Postgres/Cassandra as part of our database platform (DBaaS)
  • Work with your Director to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
  • Report on your team's progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
  • Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members
  • Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
  • Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust
  • Influence those you motivate and coach to be receptive to feedback by cultivating a culture that acknowledges and expects individuals to grow and be accountable
  • Identify where technical or analytical skill gaps put future team deliverables at risk and craft a plan to remediate, consistently challenge team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies
  • Proficiently execute difficult conversations on development and performance
  • Proven experience building out enterprise-scale platform services, ideally hosting relational and/or non-relational workloads
  • Strong knowledge of operating Cassandra at scale
  • Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
  • Working knowledge of object-oriented development
  • Proven ability to demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly
  • Strong Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) platform knowledge
  • Proficiency in Project Management and work item management tools such as Github and Azure DevOps
  • Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts
  • Fluency with RESTful Web Services and Event Driven Architectures
  • Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus
  • Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
  • Constructing, interpreting, and applying metrics to your work and decision making, able to use those metrics to identify correlation between drivers and results, and using that information to drive prioritization and action
  • 6+ years coding experience
  • 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
  • 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment
  • 2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing
  • Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 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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