Sr. Engineer, Web Development - Data

Position Summary   

​GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Engineer who 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 bringing forward a full stack mindset. Work duties can range from providing input to user experience design to implementing front-end interfaces working through back-end system integrations and all points in between   

Position Description  

Our Senior Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide friction-less experiences to our customers and maintaining the highest standards of protection and availability. Key engineering responsibilities will focus on the development and continued maintenance of several web applications and their supporting architecture, including both customer-facing experiences as well as internally developed web tools to facilitate content management. 

Position Responsibilities  

​​As a Senior Engineer, you will: 

• Evolve web applications and its supporting systems with a focus on speed to market, security, and 24x7 availability. 

• Scope, design, and build scalable and resilient software solutions amongst diverse engineering groups. 

• Utilize object-oriented languages, JavaScript, ReactJS, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases, container orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services. 

• Perform engineering design evaluations and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization. 

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

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

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

• Collaborate with cross-functional organizations throughout the entire software lifecycle to ensure technology and roadmap alignment. 

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

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

• Mentor engineering peers and junior engineers on the team to help share the necessary skills to perform their jobs and develop their professional careers. 

 Qualifications  

• Strong understanding of headless automated testing architectures and open-source solutions with experience in JavaScript, React, PostgreSQL and NGINX. 

• Strong background in delivering digital - web products at scale. 

• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts, platforms, and technologies 

• Advanced understanding of monitoring concepts and tooling. 

• Ability to prioritize and drive results based on business value to the organization. 

• Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (