GEICO

Manager, Staff Software Engineering

GEICO

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: RichardsonCaliforniaTexasUnited States

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Salary

💰 $120,000 - $260,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Work with your Senior Manager 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
  • Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
  • Report on your team’s progress for project and key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
  • 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
  • Influence those you motivate and coach to be receptive to feedback by cultivating a culture that acknowledges and expects individuals to grow and be accountable as a result of the experience gained (growth mindset)
  • Identify where technical or analytical skill gaps put future team deliverables at risk and craft a plan to remediate, consistently challenge team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies
  • Proficiently execute difficult conversations on development and performance
  • Manage up to leadership as well as give feedback when appropriate
  • Administer coaching plan(s) and Performance Improvement Plan(s)
  • Craft fully compliant quality documentation
  • Compliant negotiation and execution of warning administration and/or involuntary termination
  • Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals

Requirements

  • Basic UI/UX and prototype design knowledge and experience
  • Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
  • Working knowledge of object-oriented development, Gang of Four (GOF) Design Patterns, Microservices, Dependency Injection with IOC containers, and both frontend and backend unit testing
  • Proven ability to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly
  • Strong Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) platform knowledge
  • In-depth knowledge of MS Office tools such as PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and WebEx for effective communication
  • Proficiency in Project Management and work item management tools such as Azure DevOps and Portfolio
  • Proficiency in Program Management tools such as MS Project, Visio, and Excel
  • Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts
  • Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal
  • Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go
  • Fluency with Spring, RESTful Web Services, and Event Driven Architectures and experience with open-source software is a big plus
  • Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
  • Experience in PowerShell Scripting
  • Constructing, interpreting, and applying metrics to your work and decision making, able to use those metrics to identify correlation between drivers and results, and using that information to drive prioritization and action
  • Experience 5+ years coding experience and development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
  • 4+ years of hands-on work experience supervising and leading personnel in a technical environment
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent experience.
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Hard Skills & Tools
UI/UX designcloud computingSaaSPaaSIaaSobject-oriented developmentGang of Four Design PatternsMicroservicesDependency Injectionunit testing
Soft Skills
project managementcoachingperformance evaluationcommunicationrelationship buildinginfluencinggrowth mindsetproblem-solvingnegotiationteam motivation