At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. 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.
Requirements
- Provide influential technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams.
- Own complete solution across its entire life cycle.
- Proactively influence and collaboratively build vision with product managers, principal engineers, architects, team members, and customers to solve complex enterprise-class problems, demonstrating clear, concise communication and active listening.
- Be accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions.
- Lead impactful architectural design discussions and contribute to elevating the quality of engineering through active participation in peer review requests across the organization.
- Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential.
- Consistently share best practices and drive improvements within and across teams, fostering curiosity and innovation to advance our technology and processes.
- Drive digital transformation initiatives, including modernizing and migrating legacy applications.
- Fluency and Specialization with Java and at least one other modern language (e.g., C++, C#) including object-oriented design.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly, concisely, and directly, both verbally and in writing.
- Proven ability to provide independent technical leadership and mentor engineers with significant depth.
- Deep architectural maturity, capable of fostering and driving broader organizational influence through technical vision.
- Expertise in complex problem-solving autonomy, particularly in troubleshooting critical production issues and devising creative, scalable technical solutions.
- Experience in building products using microservices-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs.
- Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems, with a proven ability to think strategically and take a holistic, cross-domain view on system design.
- Extensive experience collaborating with architects and other technical leaders to shape engineering strategy and solutions.
- Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework, including continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.
- Experience with various operational tools and platforms, including Azure Portal, Azure Boards, and SonarQube.
- Familiarity with and experience applying Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Strong understanding and practical experience with application monitoring, performance assessments, and observability practices, leveraging tools such as Azure AppInsights, Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, or Splunk.
- In-depth understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts and offerings, particularly within the Azure platform and its native services.
- Experience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, and other secure authentication/authorization mechanisms.
- In-depth knowledge of computer science data structures and algorithms.
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
- Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication), including familiarity with tools like webhook, Kafka, API Curio, Snowflake, and IBM FileNet P8.
- Demonstrated experience driving digital transformation, including successfully migrating or modernizing complex legacy applications.
Benefits
- 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.
