Sr. Manager, Staff SW Engineering - (Enterprise) Hybrid

GEICO • Seattle, WA

34d • Hybrid

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. GEICO is seeking an experienced and strategic Senior Manager, Staff Software Engineering, who will lead 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. Our opportunity space is Enterprise Engineering where our associates are our customers. Our team sits at the intersection of IT operations, asset management and associate experience which creates a unique opportunity to impact overall company efficiency while improving our associate’s day-to-day work life. While not required, experience with IT Asset Management & IT Service Management concerns is a differentiator.

Requirements

• People First Mindset
• Champion people growth and career development by coaching managers and engineers, setting clear growth paths, and fostering a culture of continuous learning, feedback, and psychological safety.
• Lead with empathy and trust by actively listening, understanding individual and team needs, and creating an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued and people feel supported to do their best work.
• Build and sustain high-performing teams through thoughtful hiring, onboarding, performance management, and recognition, balancing accountability with compassion to enable long-term team and individual success.
• Technical: Thought Leadership
• Architect and evolve scalable, resilient platforms by defining system architecture, design patterns, reliability, and long-term technical direction across cloud-native and enterprise systems.
• Set technical standards and best practices across DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, security, and developer tooling throughout the full software development lifecycle.
• Drive modern engineering approaches by leveraging cloud platforms (Azure), low-code/pro-code solutions, and AI/ML services to solve complex business problems in fast-paced environments.
• Technical: Hands On
• Build and ship production systems using service-oriented architectures and extensible REST APIs with strong attention to performance, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Develop in modern languages (e.g., Java, C#, Python, C++) with deep expertise in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving.
• Operate and secure cloud infrastructure through hands-on work with Azure services, networking, identity and authentication (AD, OAuth, SAML), scripting (PowerShell), and DevOps pipelines.
• 6+ years of coding experience
• 5+ years of development of tooling and engineering solution in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
• 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment
• 3+ years of experience with one of the public cloud - AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Nice To Haves

• experience with IT Asset Management & IT Service Management concerns is a differentiator

Responsibilities

• Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams.
• Own complete solution across its entire life cycle.
• Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications.
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization.
• Utilize programming languages like Java, Python, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services.
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.
• Be responsible for building and mentoring a new team of software engineers
• Drive the team towards building solutions towards the long-term goals while ensuring that high priority tech debts are solved in an efficient way.

Benefits

• We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.
• 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: Manager