Senior Staff Software Engineer- GIA Platform

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 software engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation and platform engineering domain modernization as we redefine experience for our customers. Position Description Our Senior Staff Software Engineer works with our Manager, Distinguished and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of technology, risk management, engineering best practices and strategic planning to design and implement highly scalable, available, and reliable systems with effective observability. Position Responsibilities As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will:

• Develop and drive the overall technical roadmap for the GIA Platform organization, aligning it with the organization's business goals and objectives.
• Work closely with executive leadership, tech teams, and other cross-discipline stakeholders to build optimal strategy for delivering platform services.
• Leverage technical and domain expertise to influence partners and leadership to create a force multiplier in achieving milestones in the team’s technical roadmap.
• Provide thought leadership in GIA Platform, staying ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies to create effective strategy that minimizes business disruption while balancing the modernization of legacy platform components.
• Lead the design and architecture of resilient and scalable platform services, considering both on-premises and cloud-based solutions.
• Champion software development best practices and safe deployment processes to enable continuous, incremental delivery of business values.
• Contribute directly to and leading by example in day-to-day engineering activities (writing feature code and automated tests, raising PRs and reviewing peers’ PRs, developing and managing CI/CD pipelines, production support, among others)
• Develop and maintain comprehensive incident response plans to address various disaster scenarios across multiple partner integration points.
• Spearhead collaboration with various stakeholders in production readiness assessment and operational excellence.
• Hands-on software engineering and SDLC best practices (Technical Review Documents, Architecture, Software Development, Code Reviews, Testing, Production Readiness Reviews, among others)
• Evaluate, select, and implement modern technologies and tools to enhance our integration with various partners including but not limited to processes, compliance, and visibility.
• Stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies to continuously improve our partner integration platform capabilities.
• Act as a trusted advisor to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community.
• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning

Qualifications

• Fluency in at least one modern language (Go is preferred, .Net is a plus)
• Proven track record of designing, implementing, and maintaining highly scalable, available and reliable system in production
• Understanding of security best practices and data encryption technology
• Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, including stateful services management and storage
• Understanding of networking, caches, key/value stores, load balancing, global load balancing, queues, DNS and CDN
• Deep knowledge of DevOps practices, methodologies, and principles, along with a solid understanding of on prem

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