Principal Software Engineer - People & Finance Tech (REMOTE)

At GEICO Technology Solutions, we are on a journey to revolutionize the Insurtech space with our technology offerings in the Insurtech market and provide excellent service with better efficiency to our Customers and Associates. To achieve our vision and mission, we are focusing on transforming our existing tech to deliver products and capabilities that are marketplace ready.

With this massive mission, we are looking to build a strong team of skilled and talented engineers for our People and Finance Tech team, with a passion for building and supporting high-performance, low-latency platforms and applications.

If you are interested in transforming and building a new set of applications for Insurtech, this is a great opportunity to join as a leading member while we expand our team in this space.

As a Principal Software Engineer – People and Finance Tech, you will help drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine the experience for our customers. Our Principal Engineer is a lead member of the engineering staff working across Business Services Engineering, Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Infrastructure Engineering to ensure that we provide a friction-less experience to our customers, while maintaining the highest standards of protection and availability.

The ideal candidate has deep Java, Go, or Node.js development experience along with a proven background in Microservices (REST API), PostgreSQL, Linux, Containers Architecture (Kubernetes), EDA (Event Driven Architecture) using Kafka, as well as System and Network design experience.

Position Responsibilities

As a Principal Engineer, you will:

• Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams

• Own complete solution across its entire life cycle

• Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications

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

• Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization

• Utilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services

• Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential

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

Qualifications

• Fluency and Specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design

• Experience in building products using micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs

• Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems

• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code

• Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework

• Experience in leveraging PowerShell scripting

• Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal

• Experience in application monitoring tools and performance assessments: Splunk or Application Insights

• Experience in Datacenter structure, capabilities and offerings, including the Azure platform, and its native services.

• Experience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth.

• Experience in Azure Network (Subscription, Security zoning, etc)

• Experience in Genesis

• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms

• Strong problem-solving ability

• 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).

• Wiki (Atlassian), CI/CD Pipeline, tesla, Azure Just-in-Time (JIT), VM Access, Azure Cloud Services (Classic), Azure Active Directory, Azure Automation Accounts

• Design and development of ALM features

• Development and Management EAP

Experience

• 6+ years of professional DevOps experience

• 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design

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

• 1+ years of people management exper