Position Summary  

GEICO is seeking an experienced senior 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 Software Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Staff Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as 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 deep technical expertise in engineering best practices, extensive experience with DevOps, proven track record in designing and implementing highly scalable and available solutions, as well as owning production services and applications. 

  
Position Responsibilities  
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:  

• Collaborate with product managers, internal & external business partners, peers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems in our partner integration platform 

• Contribute to our technical roadmap and execute software development strategy to enhance the capabilities of various platform components. 

• 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) 

• Act as a technical project lead and collaborate with partnering teams as well as communicate with cross-discipline stakeholders on a regular basis 

• Leverage data to measure success, identify opportunities, and recommend solutions. 

Qualifications  

• Advance knowledge of at least one modern OOP language (Go is preferred, .Net is a plus) 

• Extensive first-hand experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly scalable, available and reliable system in production 

• Strong Test-Driven Development practices (e.g., unit, functional, integration, load, etc.)  

• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms  

• Understanding of security best practices (e.g., certificates, encryption)  

• Familiar with relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. 

• Familiar with No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, etc.  

• Experience in architecting, designing, building automation, workflows, and distributed applications 

• Strong understanding of service integrations/communication standards (e.g., gRPC/RESTful) 

• Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD with IaaC 

• Experience in solving complex problems with quantitative approach 

• Knowledge of development tools across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)  

• Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and best practices on a K8s environment (including K8s operators) 

• Experience in open-source tools like Git/Jenkins/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a plus  

• Experience in supporting high-volume production workloads and managing incidents 

• Excellent communication skills  

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment 

Experience:  

• 4+ years of professional experience in software development 

• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design 

• 3+ years of experience with Azure, AWS, GCP, or hybrid data center  

• 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks  

Education:  

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience