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
We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Senior full stack Engineer within our Capacity and workload management organization. This role is within the capacity management platform team, and its goal is to build a full stack platform to address the infrastructure demand, capacity and quota needs of a hybrid cloud environment. The platform would be built using open-source technologies and would be scalable to handle Geico’s growing infrastructure needs. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between and is willing to contribute across the stack depending on the needs of the team. We would also prefer the candidate to have good insights into capacity management within Hybrid cloud.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Engineer, you will:
Contribute towards the development of intuitive and responsive UI’s using ReactJS, Typescript and BootstrapJS within a Django framework ensuring seamless integration with backend microservices.
Design and Implement loosely coupled microservices that are API-driven using Python,Django,and Golang, as well as event-driven microservices using Kafka and Apache spark for backend data processing.
Work closely with engineering leads, product owners and other engineers to gather requirements, break them down into actionable tasks, and build a well-defined backlog that captures the implementation details and timelines.
Contribute to all layers of the technology stack, including UX and UI development, backend service implementation and DevOps tasks based on team’s need and priorities.
Contribute towards the development of Microfrontends backed by microservices and work with other teams to integrate them with their single page web applications.
Ensure seamless integration of backend microservices with front-end applications leveraging both RESTful API’s and gRPC for efficient communication between the layers.
Provide technical and thought leadership across multiple areas, focusing on the design and implementation of UI and backend API integration.
Take ownership of delivering high quality performant and maintainable code with a focus on meeting deadlines and aligning with the overall architecture and design specifications.
Continuously explore and adopt new technologies, frameworks and best practices to improve the development process, enhance system performance to deliver the best customer experience.
Maintain clear and concise communication with cross-functional teams, stakeholders and other engineers in the team.
Qualifications
Advanced expertise on back-end programming languages with Python, Golang, Java, docker/K8s.
Advanced programming experience on front-end technologies with Django,ReactJS,Typescript, Bootstrap JS,Redux, and Jest.
Advanced understanding of building microservices using REST or gRPC and integrating them with frontend UI.
Advanced understanding of micro-frontend architecture with client-side composition methods
Experience building architecture, design patterns, reliability, security and scaling of new and existing web applications.
Experience in creating structural micro-frontend applications within a single page application
Expertise in developing event driven microservices using Kafka and Apache spark
Understanding of existing monitoring concepts and tooling
Understanding of DevOps Concepts and Cloud Architecture
Understanding of Azure platform and its native services.
Preferred experience on building applications/solutions for capacity management.
Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD)
Knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
Strong problem-solving ability
Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
Experience
4+ years of professional software development experience using modern technologies and framework such as Django, Python, Kotlin/Java, ReactJS
3+ years of experience with architecture and design
3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
2+ years of experience with relational or no-SQL DB like PostgreSQL, Cassandra or MongoDB.
Education
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
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Annual Salary
$105,000.00 - $215,000.00The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.
We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.
Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.
Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.
As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.
Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.
- 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.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.
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