Senior Engineer - UI

Senior Engineer - UI

​​Position Summary  

​​GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications.  You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Position Description 

Our Senior Engineer is a key member of the Claims Engineering staff working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.  

Position Responsibilities 

​​ ​As a Senior Engineer, you will: 

• ​Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems. 

• ​Desing data driven RESTful APIs that orchestrates between frontend and backend systems 

• ​Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution. 

• ​Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle. 

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

• ​Define, create and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective. 

• ​Mentor other engineers on the team to professionally help them realize their full potential. 

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

• ​Utilize programming languages like Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services

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

• Assure 24x7 operations and stability of services with high regard for end user experience

Qualifications 

• Advance Programming experience with at least two modern languages such as Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS
• Experience using HTML, CSS, REST, SOAP, GraphQL, Pub-Sub etc
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems 
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms 
• Advance micro-services and micro-frontend architecture and extensible REST APIs skills 
• Experience building monitoring tools
• Understanding of security protocols and products such as:  Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth 
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) 
• Understanding of DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework 
• Analysis and estimation skills 
• Strong problem-solving ability  
• Strong oral and written communication skills 
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment 

Experience 

• ​​4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience within Mobile and Web frameworks/SDKs/languages such as HTML/Java/ReactJS, TypeScript/JavaScript
• ​3+ years of experience with architecture and design 
• ​3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service 
• ​2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks​ 

Education 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience 

 

Annual Salary

$105,000.00 - $215,000.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not lim