Senior Engineer, Underwriting

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Position Summary   

GEICO is seeking a Senior Engineer to join our Underwriting Services Team. In this role, you will build and scale the next generation of underwriting platform for all business lines in Geico and revamp existing tier-1 underwriting services. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization by designing, developing, and deploying core consumer experiences that leverage AI, ensuring they are robust, scalable and production ready.    

The Service Underwriting Engineering team partners closely with GEICO's underwriting operations team to design, build, and enhance applications that streamline underwriting processes and improve decision-making efficiency. The team develops scalable, reliable solutions that enable underwriters to work smarter, faster, and with accuracy, and aim to replace repetitive manual work with AI and automation.  

Position Responsibilities  

As a Senior Engineer, you will:  

• Build up domain knowledge in one or more major areas in the team and provide technical and thought leadership to design, build, and productionize systems 

• Design and develop highly available, scalable and secure software solutions to cater business needs with quality and expected timelines 

• Own complete solution across its entire life cycle  

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

• Collaborate with Product Manager and Operations team to align project goals and requirements.  

• Influence and educate leadership at all levels 

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

Qualifications  

• Experience with designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining solutions for distributed systems 

• Fluency and specialization with at least one modern language such as Java, Go, or C++ 

• Experience with services-oriented architecture with modern API protocols such as gRPC and REST 

• Experience with event driven architecture with Kafka, container orchestration with Kubernetes or Docker.  

• Experience with data storage  

• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code 

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment 

• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle  

• Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, a