Senior Software Engineer {REMOTE}

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 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 Java or 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.)  

• Understanding of both front-end and back-end concepts with ability to integrate different technologies.

• Integrate front-end and back-end components ensuring smooth communication and data flow between them.

• 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