Senior Engineer (JavaSoftware DevelopmentAI) Hybrid
Bethesda, MD - USA
Job Summary
Why Join GEICO
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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.
Founded in 1936 GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. 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 Description
Our Senior Engineer works with our engineering team to innovate and build new systems improve and enhance existing systems andidentifynew opportunities to apply your 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 including shaping how applied AI and intelligent automation are incorporated into enterprise solutions where they materially improve business outcomes. The ideal candidate is a self-starter with deep technicalexpertisein theirdomainanda strong senseof which AI technologies areappropriate forvarious use cases while ensuring solutions meet enterprise standards for reliability security and operability.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Engineer you will:
Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise including applied AI architecture technology selection and integration patterns across teams
Collaborate across team members and across the tech organization to solve our toughest problems working with product domain experts and analytics partners to translate business needs into technical designs that may include AI components
Deliver high-quality services and software for a variety of domains including AI-augmented workflows and intelligent services whereappropriate with accountability for the quality usability and performance of the solutions
Identifyand evaluate opportunities to apply AI intelligent automation and agentic workflows to enterprise processes distinguishing high-value use cases from hype-driven experiments
Utilize programming languages like Java C# or other object-oriented languages SQL and NoSQL databases container orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes cloudtoolsand services across Azure/AWS/GCP and integrate AI services model APIs and orchestration tooling into the platform stack
Work on end-to-end solutions that may span front-end implementations (Flutter Angular React) through API tiers and back-end domain services
Be a role model and mentor helping to coach and strengthen the technicalexpertiseandknow-howof our engineering and product community including applied AI patterns production evaluation and responsible deployment practices. Influence and educate executives
Design durable observable AI workflows using orchestration and agent patterns (e.g. Temporal for long-running workflows; Fable and comparable agent frameworks) combining tools APIs business rules and human-in-the-loop steps
Select and rationalize AI technologies for each use casemodels retrieval vector stores knowledge graphs workflow engineswith clear tradeoffs on cost latency accuracy security and operability
Establish engineering patterns for evaluating monitoring and governing components in production including testing quality metrics safety fallback behavior and incident response
Qualifications
Exemplary ability to design perform experimentsincluding AI/LLM evaluation measurement and iterative improvement in productionand influence engineering direction and product roadmap
Extensive experience shipping LLM generative AI or intelligent automation solutions in production environments
Strong grasp of when to use agents retrieval-augmented generation classical ML rules-based workflows or hybrid approaches for a given business problem
Experience integrating AI into enterprise services via APIs events authentication and observability patterns
Understanding of agent architectures workflow orchestration vector retrieval and knowledge/context design
Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development with a strong focus on SaaS products / platforms
Provenexpertisein designing and developing microservices using GraphQLgRPC Java Python Kafka with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures including integration of AI inference retrieval and async/agent workflows
Proven experience designing and deliveringhighly-resilientevent-driven and messaging-based solutions at scale with minimal latency including long-running failure-tolerant workflows for multi-step AI processes
Fluency and specialization with at least two modern OOP languages such as Java C# C or Python including object-oriented design
Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL PostgreSQL etc. anda strong foundationwith NoSQL databases like Cosmos Cassandra Apache Trino etc.
Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management source code building deployment operations real-time communication)
Fluency in test engineering and automated testing concepts including evaluation and regression testing for non-deterministic AI components
Experience
6 years full-stack development experience (Java/C#/Python/Go) withexpertisein client-side and server-side frameworks
4 years of experience with architecture and design
2 years of applied AI generative AI or intelligent automation experience in production or demonstrable ownership of AI-enabled platform capabilities
2 years of experience with AWS GCP Azure or another cloud service
Education
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or equivalent education or work experience
At this time GEICO will consider sponsoring a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
Annual Salary
$105000.00 - $215000.00The 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:Protecting customers through lifes twists and turns with innovation and integrity.
Great Careers:Personalized development programs mentorship and certification assistance.
Great Culture:Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.
Great Rewards:Competitive pay benefits and flexibility to support your well-being and future.
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:
Senior IC