Senior Staff Engineer Manager (Remote)

Position Summary
GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Engineering Manager with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. You will build and manage a team of engineers with a deep focus on delivering enterprise-wide product to operate in a highly performant and efficient way. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine experiences for our customers.    

Position Description

Our Senior Staff Engineer Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build high-performing open-source solutions for our telematics and IoT platforms. A senior manager will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. You will partner and work closely with the business, product, and peer data engineering teams to ensure that the solution and data are delivered in line with business need

What you'll do:

• Manage projects and processes to keep the team organized, efficient, and optimally running.

• Hire, retain, mentor, and manage engineering staff to ensure they have the necessary skills to perform their jobs and develop their professional careers.

• Perform engineering design evaluations to ensure projects are within resource, budget, and scheduling constraints.

• Influence the design and architecture of our platform, to ensure the needs of the business are addressed.

• Set, manage, and report KPIs to measure progress and facilitate data-driven decision making.

• Manage day-to-day activities of the engineering teams and project managers overseeing execution of software development projects against delivery commitments and project plans.

• Seek ways to simplify and standardize designs, operations, and deployment plans, focus on reducing complexity and providing performance, agility, and scalability.

• Be responsible for production operations support and ensuring availability, stability, and performance of production applications.

• Strong relationship building to establish and foster great relationships with tech teams and business partners in commercial insurance

Qualifications:

• Fluency with at least one modern language such as C#, Java, Python, or GO and experience with open-source software is a big plus 

• Ability to be hands-on developing software at least 10-20% of the time 

• Strong knowledge of system design, architecture and full lifecycle of design, implementation and productionizing of core Services and APIs.   

• Passionate for all things testing (unit, integration, functional, performance, etc.)  

• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts    

• Implemented RESTful and GRPC services, event driven architecture, micro-services, messaging technology and optimal storage/persistence approaches.

• Knowledge of cloud computing technologies (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS, etc.)    

• Knowledge of Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.)     

• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments    

• Understanding of SQL, and NoSQL databases, including stateful services management and storage   

• Ability to construct, interpret, and apply metrics for decision-making, prioritization, and progress visibility   

• Strong site reliability engineering principles  

• Strong passion for technology and engineering excellence   

• Exceptional leadership and communication skills   

• Effective negotiation abilities   ​

• Strategic thin