Senior Software Engineer – Front End

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 collaboratively design creative solutions to complex problems using automation. 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 can plan, prioritize, execute, and manage large projects to deliver enterprise network services.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineer, you will:

• Develop new user-facing features using HTML, CSS, JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, Angular)
• Ensure the technical feasibility if UI/UX designs and translate them into functional, interactive applications
• Design, test, and promote network services and platform automation solutions using DevOps and CICD practices
• Publish documentation sets for runbooks, as built, and design reference
• Develop and maintain processes and workflows using automation to improve quality and efficiency
• Leverage network management platforms and practices to run large-scale deployments efficiently and effectively
• Understand and leverage reference architectures and frameworks
• Develop and maintain strategic roadmaps for network platforms and services
• Support, operate, and maintain large scale, critical network environment, platforms, and services
• Triage, analyze, and perform root cause analysis for network automation related issues
• Provide 24x7 after hours on-call support and support for off-hour network automation implementations

Qualifications

• Proficiency in HTML 5, CSS3, and JavaScript (ES6+)
• Experience with front-end frameworks and libraries (e.g. React, Angular, Vue, js)
• Knowledge of responsive and adaptive design principals
• Experience with RESTful services and APIs
• Familiarity with CSS preprocessors (Sass or LESS)
• Basic understanding of back-end technologies (e.g. Node js, Express) is a plus
• Knowledge of common application architectures and communications protocols
• Understanding of programming and scripting languages such as Python, Golang, Bash and PowerShell
• Experience using Linux
• Proficient with container technologies like Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, etc.
• Ability to work with nested data structures like JSON, XML, YAML

• Experience in public cloud infrastructure is desired
• Strong problem-solving ability   
• Strong oral and written communication skills  
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment 

Experience

• 4+ years of professional software development experience in a large-scale network environment
• 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

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Annual Salary

$85,000.00 - $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 responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

 

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

 

Benefits:

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial f