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.
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 Engineer II is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.
Position Responsibilities
As an Engineer II, you will:
- Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems.
- Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle.
- Participate in design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization .
- Define, create, and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective.
- Utilize programming languages like C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services.
- Execute software delivery utilizing an Agile methodology (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe), continuous delivery, Infrastructure as Code, PowerShell scripting, Operation Portals (e.g., Azure Portal) and Monitoring Portals (e.g., Splunk and Application Insights).
- Build product definitions and leverage technical skills to determine solutions.
- Share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.
Qualifications
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as C#, GO, Java, or C++ including object-oriented design
- Proven understanding of microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs.
- Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
- Understanding of HTML-5, JavaScript/TypeScript, XML, and JSON
- In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with GIT and the overall GIT lifestyle.
- Understanding of existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal
- Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong problem-solving ability.
- Practical knowledge working in an Agile environment.
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment.
- Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication).
Experience
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of experience with architecture and design
- 2+ years of experience building products in microservices-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
- 2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
Annual Salary
$80,000.00 - $160,000.00The 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.
Skills Required
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as C#, Go, Java, or C++ including object-oriented design
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of experience with architecture and design
- 2+ years building products in microservices-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
- 2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Experience with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with Git and Git workflow
- Experience with continuous delivery, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code
- Experience with PowerShell scripting
- Understanding of Azure Portal and other operational portals
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk and Application Insights
- Understanding of HTML5, JavaScript/TypeScript, XML, and JSON
- In-depth knowledge of computer science data structures and algorithms
- Practical knowledge working in an Agile environment (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe)
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
GEICO Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GEICO and has not been reviewed or approved by GEICO.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, spanning medical, prescription, behavioral health, dental (including orthodontia), and vision options with multiple plan types. Wellness resources, HSAs/FSAs, and related programs add breadth to the core health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support includes a 401(k) with an employer match, and the match level is still characterized as good even after adjustments. Access to a credit union and financial education tools further strengthens the overall retirement/financial support picture.
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Flexible Benefits — Work-life programs provide flexibility through hybrid scheduling and limited remote-work options, alongside a broad menu of ancillary benefits such as commuter pre-tax programs, employee discounts, and charitable gift matching. Education support via tuition assistance and scholarships adds additional optionality for different needs.
GEICO Insights
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