Sr. Staff Engineering Manager (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.

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Engineering Manager in our Service Engineering- Policy Management Services organization with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. You will build and manage a team of engineers with a deep focus on delivering robust experience improvements and system along with enterprise-wide products to operate in a highly performant and efficient way. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine experiences for our customers.    

Position Description     

Our Senior Staff Engineering Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions and leverage them to solve critical operational problems. In this role, the candidate will lead defining the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities in our servicing organization. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise to drive system design, architecture and implementation, improve application performance, capacity benchmarking, improve availability and reliability, design and evolve cloud infrastructure and services. 

Position Responsibilities     

As a Senior Staff Engineering Manager, you will:     

 Work with your Director to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time  

Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives 

In partnership with Product Management, develop roadmaps and strategy, including identifying and reporting on OKRs and KPIs for your team and services delivered.  

Report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery 

Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas, influencing and aligning direction across the organization.     

Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members   

Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement   

Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust  

Cultivate a culture of motivation and achievement, building and maintaining trustful relationships with team members   

Address technical or analytical skill gaps, challenging team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies   

Contribute as a hands-on technical leader to the architecture, system design and implementation of services including UI/UX, Experience layers including technologies like Angular, React and Flutter, API and microservice development, storage/persistence implementations, messaging and a variety of other technical areas.  

Stay up to date with current software engineering best practices and help drive AI enablement and technology in your teams