Distinguished Engineer, Underwriting

GEICO

Job Location:

Palo Alto, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 150000 - 300000

Posted on: 5 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.

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance low maintenance zero-downtime platforms and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Position Description

Our Distinguished Engineer works with Staff and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems improve and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply their knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in their domain.

Position Responsibilities

As a Distinguished Engineer you will:

Focus on multiple areas in Underwriting and provide technical leadership to the org

Collaborate with product managers business operations and other engineering teams to solve complex problems

Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains evolve tech stack to utilize modern backend and frontend frameworks storage event and messaging solutions

Provide technical leadership in adopting AI in various Underwriting task handling development and testing activities.

Hands-on designing developing testing and launching major projects while leading other engineers to contribute

Accountable for the quality usability and performance of the solutions

Mentor and help coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community

Influence and educate leadership at all levels

Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Analyze cost and forecast incorporating them into business plans

Determine and support resource requirements evaluate operational processes measure outcomes to ensure desired results demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning

Qualifications

Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java Kotlin Golang or C# including object-oriented design.

Experience designing new and improving existing systems with architecture excellence design patterns reliability and scalability in mind

Experience building micro-services oriented architecture with gRPC interfaces and event driven systems with Kafka.

Proficient in programming languages like Java C# or other object-oriented languages SQL and NoSQL databases containers such as Kubernetes and a variety of cloud tools and services

Experience with continuous building delivery and infrastructure as code

Fluency in DevOps Concepts Cloud Architecture and operational portals on major cloud providers such as AWS Azure and GCP.

Experience in leveraging scripting languages for task automation.

Experience with application monitoring tools and performance tuning.

Experience in security protocols and products: understanding of directory service SAML OAuth

In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms

Experience with solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches

Ability to excel in a fast-paced startup-like environment

Exemplary ability to design perform experiments and influence engineering direction and product roadmap

Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in the Insurance or Underwriting domains.

Proven ability to integrate AI/ML technologies into applications to enhance efficiency and scalability.

Experience

12 years of professional software development experience within a Java framework (J2EE web containers and Java) or similar modern languages such as Kotlin Golang or C#.

10 years of experience with architecture and design

6 years of experience with AWS GCP Azure or another cloud service

6 years of experience in open-source frameworks

Experience with risk engineering compliance operations or InsurTech is a plus.

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or equivalent education or work experience

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Annual Salary

$150000.00 - $300000.00

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:

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 ...