Senior Engineer - Java

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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 key members of the Platform Engineering staff, ensuring that we provide a frictionless 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 technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.

• 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 and patterns from a business and technology perspective.
• Utilize programming languages like Java, Python, SQL, and No
  
  SQL databases, container orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, workflow orchestration with Temporal Workflow, and a variety of Azure tools and services.
• Mentor other engineers on the team to help them realize their full potential and resolve blockers.
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.
• Actively seek customer and user feedback, working with Product to iterate on product features and test new ideas through MVP development.
• Champion a culture of innovation, excellence, and continuous learning within the team.
• Take initiative and ownership of outcomes, driving projects and solutions to completion through critical thinking and proactive collaboration.

• Advanced programming proficiency in Java or Python, with strong understanding of object-oriented design principles.
• Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems and cloud-native applications, utilizing Spring Boot, Temporal Workflow, REST APIs, microservices, and related technologies.
• Effective problem-solving and critical thinking skills, able to break down complex issues, identify root causes, and devise and implement practical solutions.
• Ability to estimate and plan engineering tasks and deliver production-ready solutions on schedule.
• Experience applying Dev Ops practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code in cloud environments.
• Solid understanding of modern software security concepts…