Distinguished Engineer, Underwriting

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 Distinguished Engineer works with Staff and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply their knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in their domain. 

Position Responsibilities  

 As a Distinguished Engineer, you will:  

• Focus on multiple areas in Underwriting and provide technical leadership to the org 

• Collaborate with product managers, business operations, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems 

• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains, evolve tech stack to utilize modern backend and frontend frameworks, storage, event and messaging solutions 

• Provide technical leadership in adopting AI in various Underwriting task handling, development and testing activities.  

• Hands-on designing, developing, testing and launching major projects while leading other engineers to contribute 

• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions 

• Mentor and help coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community 

• Influence and educate leadership at all levels 

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams 

• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans 

• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning 

Qualifications  

• Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, Kotlin, Golang or C# including object-oriented design.  

• Experience designing new and improving existing systems with architecture excellence, design patterns, reliability, and scalability in mind