Why Join GEICO?
At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.
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Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. 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.
*Hybrid Position: Bethesda, MD
Our Senior Staff Engineering Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions and leverage them to solve critical operational problems.
This resource will lead defining the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities in our core insurance platform. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise to drive system design, architecture and implementation, improve application performance, capacity benchmarking, improve availability and reliability, design and evolve cloud infrastructure and services.
Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
Collaborate across teams and the tech organization to solve our toughest problems
Deliver high-scale and high-quality data architecture, especially legacy-to-modern platform transitions.
Deliver High-Quality services and software for a variety of domains
Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
Proven ability to collaborate with the product teams to understand their pain points around performance, resiliency and formulate strategies to address recurring issues in a sustainable way
Cultivate a culture of motivation and achievement, building and maintaining trustful relationships with team members
Address technical or analytical skill gaps, challenging team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies
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
Develop the teams roadmap, and report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics for the business, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
Qualifications
Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
Experience leading and building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
Strong understanding of data observability, traceability, and multi-faceted testing
Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using graphQL, gRPC, Java, Python, Kafka, with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures.
Proven experience designing and delivering highly-resilient event-driven and messaging based solutions at scale with minimal latency.
Fluency and Specialization with Java and at least one other modern language such as C#, C++, or Python including object-oriented design
Deep knowledge of ETL, SQL, bitemporal data modeling and temporal databases.
Experience with API-based migration
Experience with shadow mode, dual-write, and deconversion strategies.
Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development, with a strong focus on SAAS products / platforms.
Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Cosmos, Cassandra. Apache Trino etc.
Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
Experience
8+ years of experience in leadership position
6+ years coding experience (Java / .Net)
5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment
Annual Salary
$150,000.00 - $300,000.00The 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: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.
Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.
Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.
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
- Experience designing and influencing engineering direction and product roadmaps through experiments
- Experience leading architecture and design of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling
- Strong understanding of data observability, traceability, and multifaceted testing
- Expertise designing and developing microservices using GraphQL, gRPC, Java, Python, Kafka, API architectures, and event-driven architectures
- Experience designing and delivering highly resilient, low-latency event-driven and messaging solutions at scale
- Fluency in Java and at least one additional modern language such as C#, C++, or Python, including object-oriented design
- Deep knowledge of ETL, SQL, bitemporal data modeling, and temporal databases
- Experience with API-based migration, shadow mode, dual-write, and deconversion strategies
- Extensive experience leading full-stack application and service development, particularly for SaaS products or platforms
- Understanding of MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos, Cassandra, Apache Trino, and other open-source or NoSQL databases
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
- At least 8 years of experience in a leadership position
- At least 6 years of coding experience with Java or .NET
- At least 5 years of development experience in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience supervising personnel in a technical environment
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.
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