Sr. Software Engineer

Overview

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. 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, you should feel valued, supported and proud to work here.

The GEICO Pledge is about Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

We re building the future of insurance technology—API-first, AI-powered, and engineered for scale. The Policy Core Engineering teams are on a mission to redefine how insurance policies are built, managed, and evolved. We re designing world-class services and frameworks that are modular, resilient, and ready to power intelligent automation across the enterprise.

Our Senior Staff Engineer leads the architecture and design of the systems that power our policy platform and works with our Staff and Sr. 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 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.

• 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, developing, and deploying new and novel frameworks and services for internal distribution and consumption
• Utilize your expertise in designing and developing API’s and microservices using Graph
  
  QL, gRPC, and modern languages/tooling
• 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

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
• Experience leading and building the architecture and design of new and current systems
• Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using Graph
  
  QL and/or gRPC, along with event streaming platforms such as Kafka
• Deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures
• Strong understanding of programming language development and developer experience in relation to Domain Specific Languages (DSLs)
• Deep hands-on experience in building complex SAAS systems in large-scale business-focused systems, with knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
• Fluency and specialization with Java and/or Kotlin, along with at least one other modern typed language such as Rust, Golang, or C#
• Ability to refactor and iterate when presented with new information
• Deep knowledge of ETL, SQL, bitemporal data modeling, and temporal databases
• Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development, with a strong focus on SAAS products/platforms
• Strong understanding of data observability, traceability, and multi-faceted testing
• Proven experience designing and delivering highly resilient event-driven and messaging-based solutions at scale with minimal latency

• 15+ years of experience in full-stack web development…