Geico

Senior Manager, Staff Software Engineering

Geico$150K — $300K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in a leadership role, ideally in technical environments
  • 6+ years of coding experience in Java or .Net
  • 5+ years in large-scale, mission-critical system development
  • Extensive experience leading full-stack application development, particularly SaaS solutions
  • Deep expertise in designing microservices and event-driven architectures
  • Proven proficiency with various databases including SQL and No-SQL technologies
  • Demonstrated ability to excel in dynamic, fast-paced settings

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical strategy and execution of the engineering roadmap
  • Collaborate across teams to address complex technical challenges
  • Drive the transition of legacy data architectures to modern solutions
  • Ensure high quality and performance of software and services across domains
  • Formulate sustainable strategies to improve product performance and resiliency
  • Foster a culture of motivation and excellence within the engineering team
  • Manage project timelines, risks, and delivery milestones effectively

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a hybrid model combining remote and in-office work
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies and innovative engineering solutions
  • Support for continuous learning and skill development
  • Culture that promotes trust and collaboration among team members
  • Engagement in strategic decision-making with direct impact on business outcomes
Full Job Description
*Hybrid Position: Bethesda, MD

Our Senior Staff Engineering Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions and leverage them to solve critical operational problems.

This resource will lead defining the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities in our core insurance platform. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise to drive system design, architecture and implementation, improve application performance, capacity benchmarking, improve availability and reliability, design and evolve cloud infrastructure and services.

  • 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


  • Proven ability to collaborate with the product teams to understand their pain points around performance, resiliency and formulate strategies to address recurring issues in a sustainable way


  • Cultivate a culture of motivation and achievement, building and maintaining trustful relationships with team members


  • Address technical or analytical skill gaps, challenging team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies


  • Work with your Director 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


  • Develop the teams roadmap, and report on your team's progress for project and other key metrics for the business, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery


Qualifications

  • Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap


  • Experience leading and building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems


  • Strong understanding of data observability, traceability, and multi-faceted testing


  • Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using graphQL, gRPC, Java, Python, Kafka, with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures.


  • Proven experience designing and delivering highly-resilient event-driven and messaging based solutions at scale with minimal latency.


  • Fluency and Specialization with Java and at least one other modern language such as C#, C++, or Python including object-oriented design


  • Deep knowledge of ETL, SQL, bitemporal data modeling and temporal databases.


  • Experience with API-based migration


  • Experience with shadow mode, dual-write, and deconversion strategies.


  • Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development, with a strong focus on SAAS products / platforms.


  • Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Cosmos, Cassandra. Apache Trino etc.


  • Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment


Experience

  • 8+ years of experience in leadership position


  • 6+ years coding experience (Java / .Net)


  • 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment


  • 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment


Annual Salary
$150,000.00 - $300,000.00
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.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

About Geico

GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is an American auto insurance company with headquarters in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It is the second largest auto insurer in the United States, after State Farm. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway that provides coverage for more than 24 million motor vehicles owned by more than 15 million policy holders as of 2017. GEICO writes private passenger automobile insurance in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The insurance agency sells policies through local agents, called GEICO Field Representatives, and over the phone directly to the consumer, and through their website.
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40,000 employees
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Founded
1936

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