Senior Staff Engineer Manager (Remote)

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Chevy Chase, MD
115K-300K Annually
Senior level
Insurance
The Role
The Senior Staff Engineer Manager leads a team focused on building high-performance platforms and applications. Responsibilities include managing projects, mentoring engineers, overseeing software development, and ensuring operational stability. This role requires a blend of technical expertise and leadership to drive engineering excellence and innovation.
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Position Summary
GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Engineering Manager with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. You will build and manage a team of engineers with a deep focus on delivering enterprise-wide product to operate in a highly performant and efficient way. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine experiences for our customers.  
Position Description

Our Senior Staff Engineer Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build high-performing open-source solutions for our telematics and IoT platforms. A senior manager will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. You will partner and work closely with the business, product, and peer data engineering teams to ensure that the solution and data are delivered in line with business need

What you'll do:

  • Manage projects and processes to keep the team organized, efficient, and optimally running.

  • Hire, retain, mentor, and manage engineering staff to ensure they have the necessary skills to perform their jobs and develop their professional careers.

  • Perform engineering design evaluations to ensure projects are within resource, budget, and scheduling constraints.

  • Influence the design and architecture of our platform, to ensure the needs of the business are addressed.

  • Set, manage, and report KPIs to measure progress and facilitate data-driven decision making.

  • Manage day-to-day activities of the engineering teams and project managers overseeing execution of software development projects against delivery commitments and project plans.

  • Seek ways to simplify and standardize designs, operations, and deployment plans, focus on reducing complexity and providing performance, agility, and scalability.

  • Be responsible for production operations support and ensuring availability, stability, and performance of production applications.

  • Strong relationship building to establish and foster great relationships with tech teams and business partners in commercial insurance

Qualifications:

  • Fluency with at least one modern language such as C#, Java, Python, or GO and experience with open-source software is a big plus 

  • Ability to be hands-on developing software at least 10-20% of the time 

  • Strong knowledge of system design, architecture and full lifecycle of design, implementation and productionizing of core Services and APIs.   

  • Passionate for all things testing (unit, integration, functional, performance, etc.)

  • Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts  

  • Implemented RESTful and GRPC services, event driven architecture, micro-services, messaging technology and optimal storage/persistence approaches.

  • Knowledge of cloud computing technologies (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS, etc.)  

  • Knowledge of Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.)

  • Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments  

  • Understanding of SQL, and NoSQL databases, including stateful services management and storage  

  • Ability to construct, interpret, and apply metrics for decision-making, prioritization, and progress visibility  

  • Strong site reliability engineering principles

  • Strong passion for technology and engineering excellence  

  • Exceptional leadership and communication skills  

  • Effective negotiation abilities  

  • Strategic thinking and the ability to drive projects for positive change

Experience:

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including software development lifecycle best practices

  • 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment

  • 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment.

  •  2+ years' experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing

Education:

· Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience


 

Annual Salary

$115,000.00 - $300,000.00

The 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.


 

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.


 

Benefits:

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:

  • Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
  • Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
  • 401(k) Plan
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Paid Training and Licensures

*Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

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.

Top Skills

C
Go
Java
Python
The Company
HQ: Chevy Chase, MD
26,259 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

We know you know GEICO, but we want you to know that with us, you’ll find a rewarding career no matter which path you take. Our over 40,000 associates have been unexpectedly delighted to find that their jobs have turned into illuminating careers. You know us for insurance. Get to know us for great careers, too.

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