Staff Software Engineer Underwriting Services Platform Team Hybrid

GEICO

Job Location:

Seattle, OR - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 110000 - 230000

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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. Thats why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company Great Culture Great Rewards and Great Careers.

Build the future of insurance technology at GEICO

Why This Role Matters

At GEICOweretransforming how insurance worksfrom the inside out. As aStaffSoftwareEngineeron ourUnderwriting Services Teamyoullplay a pivotal role in building and scaling the next generation of our underwriting platform across all lines of business. This is a highimpact role where your technical leadership will directly influence how millions of customers experience GEICO.

Youllhelp modernize tier1 underwriting services replace manual processes with AIdriven automation and shape the evolution of a platform that must behighly available secure and built to scale. If you thrive in complex problem spaces enjoy influencing architecture and strategy and want to see your ideas move quickly into productionthis role is for you.

WhatYoullDo

As a StaffSoftwareEngineeryoulloperateas both ahandson technical leaderand astrategic partnerto product operations and engineering leadership.

You will:

Lead the design development and production rollout of enterprisegrade applications powering core underwriting capabilities

Architecthighly available scalable and secure systems that solve complex business and customer problems

Own solutions endtoendfrom concept and design through deployment optimization and longterm evolution

Drive architectural discussions review designs and code and elevate engineering standards across teams

Mentor and grow junior engineers fostering a culture of learning craftsmanship and accountability

Partner closely with Product Managers and Underwriting Operations to deliver measurable business outcomes

Influence technical direction and educate stakeholders at all levels from engineers to senior leadership

Champion best practices innovation and continuous improvement across the engineering organization

Lead modernization efforts including migrating and transforming legacy systems

Ensure solutions meethigh standardsfor quality performance reliability and usability

What You Bring

Werelooking for aleadengineer who combinesdeep technicalexpertisewithstrong communicationand leadership skills.

Core Qualifications

Expertisein at least one modern programming language such asJava Go or C

Proven ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences

Strong autonomy in solving complex problems includingdiagnosingand resolving critical production issues

Experience designing and building serviceoriented architectures usingREST gRPC or similar protocols

Deep understanding of system architecture design patterns scalability reliability and performance

Extensive experience collaborating with senior engineers and technical leaders to shape engineering strategy

Strong knowledge ofDevOps cloud architecture CI/CD and infrastructure as code

Handson experience withAWS Azure or GCP including native cloud services

Practical experience withAgile/Scrummethodologies

Strong background in observability monitoring and performance analysis

Solid foundation in computer science including data structures and algorithms

A proactive mindset towardidentifyingand mitigating security risks

Ability to thrive in a fastpaced evolving startupwithinanenterprise environment

Experience Requirements

6 yearsof professional software development experience withdemonstratedimpact in lead or principallevel roles

4 yearsof experience driving architectural design and leading largescale system initiatives

4 yearsworking with opensource frameworks

4 yearsof handson cloud experience (AWS Azure GCP or similar)

Nice to Have

Experience buildingAI/MLpowered products including conversational interfaces or applications leveragingLLMs

WhyYoullLove Working Here

Opportunity to shape missioncritical systems used at massive scale

High ownership high visibility and real influence on technical direction

A collaborative culture that values innovation curiosity and engineering excellence

The chance to modernize legacy systems and build greenfield solutions with todays best tools and practices

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Annual Salary

$110000.00 - $230000.00

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 candidates work experience education and training the work location as well as market and business considerations.

At this time GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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 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 familys 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.

Required Experience:

Staff IC

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 ...