Senior Engineer – Full Stack Web Applications

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 experiencedEngineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Position Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Senior full stack Engineer within our Capacity and workload management organization. This role is within the capacity management platform team, and its goal is to build a full stack platform to address the infrastructure demand, capacity and quota needs of a hybrid cloud environment.The platform would be built using open-source technologies and would be scalable to handle Geico’s growing infrastructure needs.The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between and is willing to contribute across the stack depending on the needs of the team. We would also prefer the candidate to have good insights into capacity management within Hybrid cloud.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineer, you will :

Contribute towards the development of intuitive and responsive UI’s using ReactJS,Typescript and BootstrapJS within a Django framework ensuring seamless integration with backend microservices.

Design and Implement loosely coupled microservices that are API-driven using Python,Django,andGolang, as well as event-driven microservices using Kafka and Apache spark for backend data processing.

Work closely with engineering leads, product owners and other engineers to gather requirements, break them down into actionable tasks, and build a well-defined backlog that captures the implementation details and timelines.

Contribute to all layers of the technology stack, includingUX and UI development, backend service implementation and DevOps tasks based on team’s need and priorities.

Contribute towards the development of Microfrontends backed by microservices and work with other teams to integrate them with their single page web applications.

Ensure seamless integration of backend microservices with front-end applicationsleveraging both RESTful API’s and gRPC for efficient communication between the layers.

Provide technical and thought leadership across multiple areas, focusing on the design and implementation of UI and backend API integration.

Take ownership of delivering high quality performant and maintainable code with a focus on meeting deadlines and aligning with the overall architecture and design specifications.

Continuously explore and adopt new technologies, frameworks and best practices to improve the development process, enhance system performance to deliver the best customer experience.

Maintain clear and concise communication with cross-functional teams, stakeholders and other engineers in the team.

Qualifications

Advanced expertiseon back-end programming languages with Python, Golang, Java, docker / K8s.

Advanced programming experience on front-end technologies with Django,ReactJS,Typescript,Bootstrap JS,Redux, and Jest.

Advanced understanding of building microservices using REST or gRPC and integrating them with frontend UI.

Advanced understanding of micro-frontend architecture with client-side composition methods

Experience building architecture, design patterns, reliability, security and scaling of new and existing web applications.

Experience in creating structural micro-frontend applicationswithin a single page application

Expertise in developing event driven microservices using Kafka and Apache spark

Understanding of existing monitoring concepts and tooling

Understanding of DevOps Concepts and Cloud Architecture

Understanding of Azure platform and its native services.

Preferred experience on building applications / solutions for capacity management.

Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD)

Knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms

Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)

Strong problem-solving ability

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

Experience

4+ years of professional software development experience using modern technologies and frameworksuch as Django, Python, Kotlin / Java, ReactJS

3+ years of experience with architecture and design

3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

2+ years of experience with relational or no-SQL DB like PostgreSQL, Cassandra or MongoDB.

Education

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

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Annual Salary

$105,000.00 - $215,000.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate / annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The GEICO Pledge :

Great Company :  At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers :  We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture :  We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards :  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.