Senior Manager, Staff Software Engineering

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.

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. 

Qualifications

At GEICO Technology Solutions, we are on a journey to revolutionize the Insurtech space with our technology offerings in the Insurance 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 and are agnostic of the Line of Business or the Channel utilized.

Alongside this massive mission, GEICO must remain compliant and demonstrate industry-leading responsiveness to regulatory change. The Durable Compliance team faces unique challenges in supporting an enterprise-scale production Policy Management system while addressing regulatory Compliance enhancements and remediations. Leaders must demonstrate a desire to challenge the status quo, and a finite level of subject matter expertise to support our customers’ needs.

Position Summary

As Senior Manager, Staff Software Engineering, you will lead one or more teams in driving application stability and leading critical work tied to regulatory compliance. This role is essential to ensuring the core Policy system remains reliable, resilient and responsive to both internal and external users.

This leader will oversee one or more engineering teams tasked with triaging and resolve complex production issues, identifying systemic gaps, and delivering sustainable solutions that improve system health. In addition, the role plays a key part in executing the Compliance roadmap, working closely with business partners to correct, remediate and introduce automations that protect against regulatory concerns.

The right candidate is someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, brings strong technical and operational instincts, and knows how to lead through both urgent response and steady transformation. We’re building an organization that’s not just reactive, but anticipates the needs of the organization and provides solutions that respond quickly to those needs.

What you will be doing…

As Senior Manager, Staff Software Engineering, you will:

• Work with your Director to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
• Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
• Report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
• Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members
• Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
• Execute change management processes and best practices, adapting approach as necessary
• Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust
• Influence those you motivate and coach to be receptive to feedback by cultivating a culture that acknowledges and expects individuals to grow and be accountable as a result of experience gained (growth mindset)
• Identify where technical or analytical skill gaps put future team deliverables at risk and craft a plan to remediate, consistently challenge team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies
• Proficiently execute difficult conversations on development and performance
• Craft and deliver