Senior Staff Engineering Manager (Software Development / Microservices) - 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 Engineering Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions and leverage them to solve critical operational problems. A Senior Manager will lead defining the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities in our core insurance platform. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise to drive system design, architecture and implementation, improve application performance, capacity benchmarking, improve availability and reliability, design and evolve cloud infrastructure and services. 

Position Responsibilities     

As a Senior Staff Engineering Manager, 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 

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 

​Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas     

​Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members   

Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement   

Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust  

Collaborate with the product teams to understand their pain points around performance, resiliency and formulate strategies to address recurring issues in a sustainable way      

​Cultivate a culture of motivation and achievement, building and maintaining trustful relationships with team members   

​Address technical or analytical skill gaps, challenging team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies   

Contribute as a hands-on technical leader to the architecture, system design and implementation of core services including API and microservice development, storage/persistence implementations, messaging and a variety of other technical areas.  

Constantly up to date with current software engineering best practices   

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<