Distinguished Engineer, Underwriting

Base pay range

$/yr - $/yr

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.

Our Distinguished Engineer works with Staff and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply their 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. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in their domain.

• Focus on multiple areas in Underwriting and provide technical leadership to the org
• Collaborate with product managers, business operations, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains, evolve tech stack to utilize modern backend and frontend frameworks, storage, event and messaging solutions
• Provide technical leadership in adopting AI in various Underwriting task handling, development and testing activities
• Hands‑on designing, developing, testing and launching major projects while leading other engineers to contribute
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Mentor and coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know‑how of our engineering and product community
• Influence and educate leadership at all levels
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning

• Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, Kotlin, Golang or C# including object‑oriented design
• Experience designing new and improving existing systems with architecture excellence, design patterns, reliability, and scalability in mind
• Experience building micro‑services oriented architecture with gRPC interfaces, and event driven systems with Kafka
• Proficient in programming languages like Java, C# or other object‑oriented languages, SQL, and No
  
  SQL databases, containers such as Kubernetes, and a variety of cloud tools and services
• Experience with continuous building, delivery and infrastructure as code
• Fluency in Dev Ops Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and operational portals on major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and GCP
• Experience in leveraging scripting languages for task automation
• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance tuning
• Experience in security protocols and products: understanding of directory service, SAML, OAuth
• In‑depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Experience with solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
• Ability to excel in a fast‑paced, startup‑like environment
• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production

• Experience in the Insurance or Underwriting domains
• Proven ability to integrate AI/ML technologies into applications to enhance efficiency and scalability

• 12+ years of professional software development experience within a Java framework (J2EE, web containers and Java), or similar modern languages such as Kotlin, Golang, or C#
• 10+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 6+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 6+ years of experience in open‑source frameworks
• Experience with risk engineering, compliance, operations, or Insur Tech is a plus

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent…