Manager, Software Engineering

Position: Manager, Staff Software Engineering
GEICO .
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R0060759
** 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.
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** 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.
** Position Description
** Our Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions as well as leverage engineering solutions to solve critical operational problems. A Manager, Engineering will lead 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 to improve application performance, capacity benchmarking, improve availability and reliability.
** Position Responsibilities
** As a Manager, you will:
* Work with your Senior Manager to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
* Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
* Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
* Report on your team’s progress for project and key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
* Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members
* Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
* Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust
* Influence those you motivate and coach to be receptive to feedback by cultivating a culture that acknowledges and expects individuals to grow and be accountable as a result of the experience gained (growth mindset)
* Identify where technical or analytical skill gaps put future team deliverables at risk and craft a plan to remediate, consistently challenge team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies
* Proficiently execute difficult conversations on development and performance
* Manage up to leadership as well as give feedback when appropriate
* Administer coaching plan(s) and Performance Improvement Plan(s)
* Craft fully compliant quality documentation
* Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals
** Qualifications
* ** Basic UI/UX and prototype design knowledge and experience
* Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
* Working knowledge of object-oriented development, Gang of Four…