Senior Engineer – Platform
GEICO
ASP.NETAWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformMicroservices.NETSQL
Senior Manager, Staff Software Engineering
GEICO
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Palo Alto • California, Maryland, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $150,000 - $300,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformInformaticaJavaJavaScriptKubernetesMicroservices.NETTypeScript
About the role
- 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
- Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
- 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
- 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
- Foster a culture of growth mindset that acknowledges and expects individuals to grow and be accountable
- Influence those you motivate and coach to be receptive to feedback
- 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
- Craft and deliver strategic and well-structured persuasive arguments to drive projects that drive process improvement, enhance cost leadership, and/or customer experience
- 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
- Develop the team budget and be accountable for reporting on results achieved at regular intervals
- Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals
- Collaborate with the product teams to understand their pain points around performance, resiliency and formulate strategies to address recurring issues in a sustainable way
- Influence and build vision with product owners to ship quality products in a faster pace
- Develop and motivate teams to solve complex problems and be a strong advocate for open-source technologies and solutions
- Drive the team towards building solutions towards the long-term goals while ensuring that high priority tech debts are solved in an efficient way
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
Requirements
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts
- Basic UI/UX, API and prototype design knowledge and experience
- Proven experience in digital experimentation to optimize the online customer experience
- Knowledge of DTM tagging, including implementation solution design and processing rule set
- Hands on experience with Metadata management tools (Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Alation, Informatica, etc.)
- 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 Jira, Azure DevOps and Portfolio
- Proficiency in Program Management tools such as MS Project, Visio, and Excel
- Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal
- Fluency with Java, Go, .NET, HTML-5, JavaScript/TypeScript, XML, JSON, and RESTful Web Services
- 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
- Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps principles
- Strong technical acumen in Cloud Architecture, Performance Benchmarking, and Capacity planning
- Expert in Container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), container runtimes and optimization
- Experience with driving cultural change in technical excellence, quality, and efficiency
- Experience managing and growing technical leaders and teams
- In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
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; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and 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
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
algorithmsdata structuresUI/UX designAPI designDTM taggingcloud computingobject-oriented developmentJavaGo.NETKubernetes
Soft skills
project managementteam motivationcoachingcommunicationperformance evaluationrelationship buildinginfluencingproblem solvingstrategic thinkingcultural change
