Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Position Summary  

GEICO is seeking an experienced senior software engineer with a passion for building high performance, low-latency 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 the Open-Source platform domain.  

  
Position Responsibilities  
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:  

• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems  

• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the organization including self-service, business continuity, backup/restores, incident response and paging platforms  

• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions  

• Lead projects from the front and interact with clients and sponsors on a regular basis   

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams  

• Take on-call and operational support  

Qualifications  

• Advance knowledge of at least one modern OOP language such as Python or Go (preferred) 

• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes  

• 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)  

• Understand open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. 

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

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

• Strong understanding of service integrations / communication standards (e.g., GRPC / REST)  

• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production  

• Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code  

• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches   

• Knowledge of developer tooling 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/Jenkin/CircleCI, and knowledge in Pulumi/Terraform/Ansible is a plus  

• Excellent communication skills  

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

Experience:  

• 4+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration and maintenance of software, and its ecosystem  

• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design  

• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, 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