Staff Engineer - Pricing Technologies

GEICO • Chicago, IL

2d • $110,000 - $260,000

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. Staff Software Engineer – Pricing Tech Position Summary GEICO is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture, design, development, and delivery of scalable, enterprise-level solutions for our Pricing organization. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in application architecture and software engineering with a focus on finance business applications. This position involves hands-on technical leadership, innovation, and collaboration to align technology solutions with business goals. Position Description In this role, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including business stakeholders, product experts, and other technical leaders, to deliver end-to-end pricing solutions that will transform how GEICO develops and manages pricing strategies. You will play a key role in the architecture, development, and deployment of cutting-edge solutions while ensuring best practices in software design, security, and performance. This role combines application solutioning, technical expertise, and strong functional knowledge of finance business applications.

Requirements

• 15+ years of professional experience in software development.
• 10+ years of professional experience working with large enterprise or business applications, preferably finance related.
• Deep understanding of object-oriented design with expertise in either Java or C#.
• Experience building high-performance web UIs, with proficiency in at least one modern JavaScript framework (React/Angular/Vue).
• Strong understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SqlServer) as well as cloud data platforms such as Snowflake.
• Experience working with cloud-native architecture and technologies (AWS, Azure) and containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in DevOps practices and tools for CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure management.
• Good knowledge of security protocols and products: understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, and OAuth.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate with various audiences (leadership, highly technical, and non-technical business partners)
• Bachelor’s degree in in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with insurance-related systems a plus

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and solution design of a vendor product or bespoke system to conduct complex calculations across multiple dimensions to support advanced Pricing processes and analytics.
• Leverage your knowledge and experience across a broad range of technologies to ensure end-to-end solutions are sound, scalable and capable of meeting both current and future business requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align technology solutions with business goals and requirements.
• Ensure seamless integration of financial, business and reference data from various sources to support the complex dimensional reporting and analytic requirements of Pricing systems.
• Lead and mentor other engineers, consistently share best practices, and improve processes within and across teams
• Innovate and prototype new tools or frameworks to improve development efficiency and product quality.
• Provide thought leadership in new technologies, design patterns, and best practices, staying ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Perform root cause analysis of performance issues and implement monitoring, profiling, and optimization strategies as needed.

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