GEICO

Distinguished Engineer, Underwriting

GEICO

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Palo Alto • California, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $150,000 - $300,000 per year

Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGRPCJavaKafkaKotlinKubernetesNoSQLSQL

About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • Experience building micro-services oriented architecture with gRPC interfaces , and event driven systems with Kafka.
  • Proficient in programming languages like Java, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, containers such as Kubernetes, and a variety of cloud tools and services.
  • Experience with continuous building, delivery and infrastructure as code.
  • Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture , and operational portals on major cloud providers such as AWS , Azure and GCP .
  • Experience in leveraging scripting languages for task automation.
  • Experience with application monitoring tools and performance tuning.
  • Experience in security protocols and products: understanding of directory service , SAML , OAuth.
  • In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms.
  • Experience with solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches.
  • Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
  • Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap.
  • Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production.
Benefits
  • Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
  • Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation;
  • 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match;
  • Performance and recognition-based incentives;
  • Tuition assistance.
  • Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
  • Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
JavaKotlinGolangC#SQLNoSQLgRPCKafkaKubernetescloud tools
Soft skills
technical leadershipmentoringcollaborationinfluencingadaptabilitycoachingproblem-solvingprocess improvementcommunicationanalytical thinking