Senior Staff Engineering Manager

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Engineering Manager with a passion for building high performance lowlatency platforms and applications. You will build and manage a team of engineers with a deep focus on delivering enterprisewide 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 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. A Senior Manager 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.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Staff Engineering Manager you will:

• 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
• Report on your teams 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
• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
• 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
• 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
• Contribute as a handson technical leader to the architecture system design and implementation of core services including API and microservice development storage/persistence implementations messaging and a variety of other technical areas.
• Constantly up to date with current software engineering best practices
• 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 persuasive arguments to drive projects for process improvement cost leadership and customer experience enhancement
• Manage up to leadership and provide feedback when necessary
• Mindset of efficiency and utilization improvements
• Contribute significantly to the team planning process including surfacing teams proposals
• Ability to construct roadmaps manage and translate projects into deliverables adjust priorities and be able to understand and adjust the team capacity as needed

Qualifications

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

• Ability to be handson developing software at least 1020% 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 microservices 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 decisionmaking 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

6 years of professional software engineering experience including software development lifecycle best practices

5 years of development in a largescale missioncritical environment

5 years of handson work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment

2 years of experience with automated testing including Unit Integration and EndtoEnd functional testing

Education

Bachelors degree in Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience

Annual Salary

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 candidates 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 lifes twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and were constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

Were an iconic brand that thrives on innovation exceeding our customers expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one youll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on peoples 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. Youll 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 multifaceted 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 wellbeing mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailormade for you and your familys overall wellbeing.
• Financial benefits including marketcompetitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognitionbased incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• In office and remote opportunities as well as our signature GEICO Flex program offering the ability to work remotely 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.