Senior Engineer – Telematics (Android)

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. That’s 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 Senior Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep knowledge of emerging technologies to drive business results, enhance our customer’s online experience, impact bottom-line operations and deliver award-winning apps to the Play Store.

Position Responsibilities

As an Senior Engineer you will :

Build scalable, high-quality features for our product.

Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle

Utilize programming languages like Kotlin, Java, SQL, and NoSQL databases

Collaborate as a team and work with minimal oversight

Qualifications

Advanced programming experience in Kotlin, in building and deploying Android applications

Experience architecting and designing new and current systems

Strong desire and commitment to learning new technologies quickly

Excellent analytical skills and problem-solving ability

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

Understanding of Operational Portals such as Azure DevOps Portal

Understanding or exposure to continuous delivery and infrastructure as code

Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)

Understanding or experience with Gradle

Advanced understanding of monitoring concepts and tooling

Advanced understanding of security protocols and products

Preferred

Understanding or experience working on location services, core motion and activity tracking

Understanding of various core concepts like foreground, background processing, background task management, multithread programming and resource optimization techniques

Basic understanding of telematics data Experience with application monitoring tools, debugging, logging and performance assessments

Understanding or experience leveraging performance analysis tools to optimize code toward performance improvements

Understanding or experience in using Mobile UI and API Automation scripting frameworks / tools like Appium.

Experience

4+ years of professional software development experience building native Android Applications

3+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

3+ years of experience with architecture and design

2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Annual Salary

$105,000.00 - $215,000.00

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 candidate’s 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 life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s 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. You’ll 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 family’s 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.