Senior Engineer – Full Stack, Strategy Foundation Engineering *Remote*

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 Senior Engineer with a passion for working full stack and building high-performance, low maintenance, and highly available platforms and web applications. You will lead by example to drive our technology and 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 

As a Senior Engineer in the Strategy, Analytics, and Operations organization, you will design and develop modern full stack software systems from database to web page. You will uncover and analyze the relationships between people, services, and work, discovering new insights that unlock new growth and efficiency. You will pair deep technical expertise (hybrid-cloud, data platforms, responsive web frameworks) with strong collaboration skills to elevate engineering standards and foster a culture of innovation and learning.

Position Responsibilities 
As a Senior Engineer, you will: 

• Design, develop, and deliver end-to-end features: scalable backend systems, performant APIs, data pipelines, and responsive web UIs
• Own quality and reliability across the stack, implementing automates testing and observability for both frontend and backend components
• Mentor and coach engineers to strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
• Champion continuous improvement and consistently share best practices within and across teams  
• 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  

Required Qualifications

Deep hands-on professional experience designing, building, and operating scalable backend and data-intensive systems with an emphasis on performance

• Experience designing and building modern single-page applications (React, Angular, Vue)
• Fluency in at least one of Golang, Python, Java, C++ as well as JavaScript / TypeScript
• Strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, complexity analysis)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (containerization, orchestration, deployment)
• Understanding of open-source relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) or NoSQL column stores (Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.)
• Ownership of continuous integration and delivery pipelines (CI/CD) and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows (Terraform)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills – comfortable leading projects and presenting solutions to clients and sponsors on a regular basis

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building microservice architectures and REST/gRPC APIs in production
• Production experience with event-streaming and big-data stacks (Kafka, Lambda, Flink, Spark)

• Familiarity with observability stacks (Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus) and SRE practices
• Knowledge of developer productivity tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, automated testing, GitHub Actions, real-time communication)
• Familiarity with design systems, single-page application optimizations, and web testing
• Previous contributions to open-source projects, tech talks, or technical blogs

Experience 

• 4+ years of professional experience with production software systems, including software development, platform architecture, infrastructure management, data governance, web UIs, and network operations
• 3+ years of experience with the architecture and design of distributed solutions (microservices, event-driven, or data-intensive)
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and hybrid cloud envir