Senior Engineer - Java [Hybrid]

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.

At GEICO Technology Solutions, we are on a journey to revolutionize the Insurtech space with our technology offerings in the Insurance market and provide excellent service with better efficiency to our Customers and Associates. To achieve our vision and mission, we are focusing on transforming our existing tech to deliver products and capabilities that are marketplace ready and are agnostic of the Line of Business or the Channel utilized.

With this massive mission, we are looking to build a strong team of skilled and talented engineers for our Claims Technology team, with a passion for building high-performance, low-latency platforms, and applications.

If you are interested in transforming and building a new set of applications for Insurtech, this is a great opportunity to join as a founding member of the team while we expand our team in this space.

Our Senior Java Engineers are a key members of the engineering staff working across Business Services Engineering, Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Infrastructure Engineering to ensure that we provide a fiction-less experience to our customers, 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 technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.

What you will be doing…

As a Senior Java Engineer, you will:

• Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems.

• Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution.

• Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle.

• Lead in design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization.

• Define, create and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective.

• Utilize programming languages like Java, .NET, Python, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services.

• Mentor other engineers on the team to professionally help them realize their full potential.

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.

What you will need…

• Advanced programming experience with at least two modern language such as Java, .Net, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design.

• Proven understanding of micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs.

• Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

• Advanced understanding of DevOps Concepts and Cloud Architecture.

• Advanced understanding of Azure DevOps Operational Frame work

• Advanced Powershell scripting skills

• Advanced understanding of existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal

• Advanced understanding of DataCenter Structure, Capabilities & Offerings, including the Azure platform and its native services.

• Advanced understanding of Security Protocols & Products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth.

• Advanced level understanding of Azure Network (Subscription, Security zoning, etc) & tools like Genesis

• Practical knowledge of working in Agile environment (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe).

• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.

• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms.

• Strong problem-solving ability

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

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

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software development experience

• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design

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

• 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

• Excellent problem-solving skills, proactive, and ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Flexible and adaptable to a fast-paced work environment

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

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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.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified 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.