Senior Engineer – Software Engineering

Senior Engineer Software Engineering

Position Summary

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GEICO is seeking an experienced senior 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 Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Principal 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 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 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 Platform Engineering domain including Service Management, Business Continuity, Recovery, Incident Response and Paging platforms
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Willing to take on-call and operational support

Qualifications

• Experience with JSON, shell scripting
• Advance knowledge of at least one modern OOP languages such as Go, Python, Java, etc.
• Advance knowledge of web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript is preferred
• Understand open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., familiar with No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.
• Experience in architecting, designing, building automation, workflows, custom objects / apps, declarative functionality, triggers, migration tools in BMC Helix platform and transition such platform to Open Source is a big plus.
• Experience building and configuring flows, and process builders
• Strong understanding of web service integration (GRPC / REST) and enterprise middleware integration tiers
• Ability to articulate channel dataflow and process flow including email, messaging, chat, mobile Push and SDK's
• Excellent communication skills needs to be able to lead projects from the front and interact with clients and sponsors on a regular basis
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• Experience with continuous delivery (CI / CD) and Infrastructure as Code
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
• Experience with Windows Server Administration and Windows Event Log
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
• Willing to work on both fast development and operation environment
• 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 in big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda / Kappa) and K8 cluster
• Experience in open-source tools like GIT / Jenkin / CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform / Ansible is a plus

Experience

• 4+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration, governance, infrastructure management, installation, and maintenance of the hardware, software, and network systems
• 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

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Benefits

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including :

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Training and Licensures
• Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.
• Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law.

GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and / or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company.

This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability.

We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.

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