Senior Software Engineer (Data Governance)
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 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
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience developing, scaling and supporting open-source applications such as Datahub, Soda, DBT, etc.
- Experience with programming languages like Java, Python, SQL, and NoSQL databases
- Experience with GIT and version control concepts including branching, merging, and conflict resolution
- Experience with design, deployment, scaling, troubleshooting and performance tuning of Elastic Search is a plus
- Experience with Open-Source Data Governance solutions like Datahub is a plus
- Experience with container orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and various Azure tools and services
- Experience with relational and non-relational database technologies (SQL, Oracle, CosmosDB, Postgres, NoSQL etc.)
- Experience in the complete software development life cycle and knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
- Experience with Load test tooling (Gatling or equivalent)
- Advanced understanding of Data Observability concepts and tools such as Grafana, Titan, Loki, Prometheus or equivalents
- Proven understanding and experience with microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs and GraphQL
- Advanced understanding of DevOps concepts including Azure DevOps framework and tools
- Understanding and experience working with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Gradle, Artifactory, Microsoft Azure DevOps
- Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
- Advanced shell scripting skills
- Experience specifically with React (Clean Architecture) or Angular and GIT
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment
- 4+ years of professional software development experience with Java and/or Python programming
- 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
- 3+ years of experience with Azure, AWS, GCP, or another cloud service
- 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience
Responsibilities
- Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems.
- Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle
- Participate in design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
- Utilize programming languages like Java, Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
- Define, create and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective
- Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
- Design, Develop and implement solutions to manage data products, data contracts and data dictionaries
- Mentor other engineers
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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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
