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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.

GEICO is seeking an experienced Distinguished 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.

**This is a Hybrid role 2x a week**

Position Description

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.

Position Responsibilities

As a Distinguished Engineer, you will:

• 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 help 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

Qualifications

• 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 NoSQL databases, containers such as Kubernetes, and a variety of cloud tools and services

• Experience with continuous building, delivery and infrastructure as code

• Fluency in DevOps 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the Insurance or Underwriting domains.

• Proven ability to integrate AI/ML technologies into applications to enhance efficiency and scalability.

Experience

• 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 InsurTech is a plus.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

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Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate's work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company:At GEICO, we help our customers through life's twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we're constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We're an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers' expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you'll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people's lives.

Great Careers:We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career - and your potential - in mind. You'll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture:We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards:We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family's overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.