Senior Staff Software Engineer AI & Underwriting Platforms Hybrid

GEICO

Job Location:

Seattle, OR - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 110000 - 260000

Posted on: 3 days ago

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.

Why This Role Matters

GEICO is reengineering underwriting at scale. As a Senior Staff Engineer you will play a pivotal role in building the next generation of underwriting platforms that power decisions across all GEICO business lines. This is a highimpact leadership role where you will design build and scale missioncritical AIenabled systems while helping transform GEICO from a traditional IT organization into a modern technology company.

You will work at the intersection of cloudnative architecture distributed systems and applied AI partnering closely with underwriting operations product leaders and senior engineers to eliminate manual processes and unlock smarter faster decisionmaking.

What Youll Do

Lead the design and delivery of largescale productionready underwriting platforms including AI and LLMpowered capabilities
Architect highly available secure and scalable services that support enterpriselevel workloads
Drive endtoend ownership of systemsfrom concept and architecture through production and longterm evolution
Provide technical leadership across multiple teams influencing architecture design patterns and engineering standards
Mentor and grow senior and midlevel engineers setting a high bar for engineering excellence
Partner closely with Product Operations and Engineering Leadership to deliver measurable business outcomes
Modernize legacy systems through cloud migration automation and digital transformation initiatives
Champion best practices in observability performance reliability and security
Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders

What You Bring

Technical Expertise

Deep experience with at least one modern programming language (Java Go or C)
Strong background in distributed systems and serviceoriented architectures (REST gRPC)
Handson experience designing and building cloudnative systems on AWS Azure or GCP
Fluency in DevOps and CI/CD including infrastructure as code and operational best practices
Advanced understanding of data structures algorithms and system design
Proven experience with application monitoring performance tuning and observability tools

AI & Modern Engineering

Practical experience integrating AI/ML solutions including LLMs prompts and RAGbased approaches
Experience building AIenabled applications via APIs or embedded solutions
Curiosity and comfort working in an evolving AIdriven engineering landscape

Leadership & Collaboration

Ability to lead through influence rather than authority
Strong communication skills with a track record of collaborating across disciplines
Comfort operating in a fastpaced startuplike environment while delivering enterprisegrade solutions

Experience Requirements

10 years of professional software engineering experience including seniorlevel technical leadership
8 years leading architecture and largescale system initiatives
4 years building and operating systems in public cloud environments
3 years working on AI/MLdriven products or platforms
Experience contributing to or leveraging opensource frameworks

Why Join GEICO

Build systems used at massive scale with real business impact
Influence the technical direction of underwriting across the enterprise
Work on modern AIdriven platforms not greenfield demos
Collaborate with experienced engineers and leaders who value innovation and ownership
Be part of a longterm transformation where your architectural decisions matter

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Annual Salary

$110000.00 - $260000.00

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 ...