Distinguished Engineer, Policy Platform

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, the Policy Engineering teams are on a mission to redefine how insurance policies are built, managed, and evolved. We're designing world-class services that are modular, resilient, and ready to power intelligent automation across the enterprise.

Position Description

The Distinguished Engineer leads the overall architecture and design of the systems that power our policy platform and works with our senior engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems.

You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap modernizing our servicing organization, including large scale modernization, working on system and data migration.

We're looking for engineers with deep technical breadth-from distributed systems and cloud-native architectures to data pipelines and service mesh patterns.

If you're passionate about working with top tier engineering teams and building systems that empower teams and delight customers, we'd love to talk.

Position Responsibilities

As a Distinguished Engineer, you will:

* Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise

* Collaborate across teams and the tech organization to solve our toughest problems

* Deliver high-scale and high-quality data architecture, especially legacy-to-modern platform transitions.

* Deliver High-Quality services and software for a variety of domains

* Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions

* Utilize your expertise in designing and developing API's and microservices using graph

QL, gRPC, Java, Python, Kafka, with a deep understanding of API driven system migration
· Utilize programming languages like Java, C#, or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and No

SQL databases.

* Deploy applications in a hybrid cloud environment utilizing Kubernetes, various data stores, and a variety of cloud native tools and services

* Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives

Qualifications

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

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

* Deep knowledge of ETL, SQL, bitemporal data modeling, and temporal databases.

* Strong understanding of data observability, traceability, and multi-faceted testing

* Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using Graph

QL, gRPC, Java, Python, Kafka, with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures.

* Proven experience designing and delivering highly resilient event-driven and messaging-based solutions at scale with minimal latency.

* Deep hands-on experience in building complex SAAS systems in large scale business focused systems, with great knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes

* Fluency and Specialization with Java and at least one other modern language such as C#, C++, or Python including object-oriented design

* Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development, with a strong focus on SAAS products / platforms.

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

Experience

* 15+ years of experience in full-stack web development (C#/Java/Python/GO), with expertise in client-side and server-side frameworks.

* 10+ years of experience working with public cloud platforms (AWS,…