Senior Manager, Underwriting Engineering

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.

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 
We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the development of innovative applications and solutions for our Underwriting Services team. This role will focus on building scalable, high-performing applications while leveraging AI technologies wherever applicable to drive efficiency, enhance customer experiences, and deliver business value. The ideal candidate will define and execute a technical strategy to transform our current systems and unlock new engineering capabilities. 
 
What You'll Do 

• Lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap to improve system reliability and operational excellence, enable new engineering capabilities. 

• Lead the effort to build a new Rules Engine leveraging AI capabilities such as LLM, and integration with important underwriting and policy workflows.  

• Revamp core Underwriting services and applications which cover the majority of our existing insurance product workflows.  

• Innovate and build tools that seamlessly integrate with our various insurance systems and provide real-time insights on Underwriting to business teams.  

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

• Hire, retain, mentor, and manage engineering staff to ensure they have the necessary skills to perform their jobs and grow professionally. 

• Perform engineering design evaluations to ensure projects are within resource, budget, and scheduling constraints. 

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

• Oversee day-to-day activities of engineering teams, ensuring timely execution of software development projects. 

• Simplify and standardize designs, operations, and deployment plans, focusing on reducing complexity while improving performance, agility, and scalability. 

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

• Foster strong relationships with tech teams and business partners in commercial insurance to align technical solutions with business needs. 
   

Qualifications 

• Proven management experience leading teams of 10+ engineers, with a focus on delivering high-quality systems. 

• Strong knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.). 

• Fluency in at least one modern programming language such as Python, Java, or Go, with experience in open-source software being a plus. 

• Proven ability to learn and adapt to new technologies quickly, with a strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts. 

• Implemented RESTful and GRPC services, event driven architectures, microservices, and libraries.  

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, build and release practices, and application monitoring tools. 

• Understand of SQL, and NoSQL databases, including stateful services management and storage 

• Experience with automated testing, including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with senior leadership, technical, and non-technical audiences. 

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