Senior Engineer – Telematics (Android)

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. 

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. 

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

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 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 knowledge of emerging technologies to drive business results, enhance our customer’s online experience, impact bottom-line operations and deliver award-winning apps to the Play Store.   

  

Position Responsibilities  

As an Senior Engineer you will:  

• Build scalable, high-quality features for our product. 

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

• Utilize programming languages like Kotlin, Java, SQL, and NoSQL databases 

• Collaborate as a team and work with minimal oversight  

Qualifications  

• Advanced programming experience in Kotlin, in building and deploying Android applications

• Experience architecting and designing new and current systems

• Strong desire and commitment to learning new technologies quickly 

• Excellent analytical skills and problem-solving ability 

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

• Understanding of Operational Portals such as Azure DevOps Portal  

• Understanding or exposure to continuous delivery and infrastructure as code  

• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)  

• Understanding or experience with Gradle  

• Advanced understanding of monitoring concepts and tooling

• Advanced understanding of security protocols and products

Preferred 

• Understanding or experience working on location services, core motion and activity tracking 

• Understanding of various core concepts like foreground, background processing, background task management, multithread programming and resource optimization techniques 

• Basic understanding of telematics data Experience with application monitoring tools, debugging, logging and performance assessments 

• Understanding or experience leveraging performance analysis tools to optimize code toward performance improvements  

• Understanding or experience in using Mobile UI and API Automation scripting frameworks/tools like Appium. 

Experience  

• 4+ years of professional software development experience building native Android Applications

• 3+ years of experience in open-source frameworks  

• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design  

• 2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service   

  

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 limited to, the scope and responsibil