Geico

Staff Engineer - Customer Platform

Geico$105K — $260K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong understanding of customer-facing web applications with experience in Next.JS/React, JavaScript, Python/Django, NGINX, or PostgreSQL.
  • Ability to analyze data to drive business decisions and deliver customer value.
  • Experience in delivering high-quality digital products at scale.
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies.
  • Advanced knowledge of application and infrastructure monitoring tools.
  • Experience in architecting high-availability, cloud-native applications.
  • Understanding of CI/CD, Release Management, and Configuration Management processes.

Responsibilities

  • Evolve Geico.com for speed, security, and user engagement.
  • Design and build scalable software solutions across diverse teams.
  • Utilize object-oriented languages and cloud hosting tools to build applications.
  • Conduct design evaluations and code reviews for quality assurance.
  • Oversee daily engineering team activities to ensure project delivery.
  • Simplify and standardize designs and operations for performance and scalability.
  • Support production operations to ensure application stability and performance.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally throughout the software lifecycle.
  • Manage projects to optimize team efficiency and organization.
  • Set and manage KPIs for data-driven decision making.
  • Evaluate and implement new technologies and Open-Source software.
  • Research architectural changes to enhance application performance.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on a high-visibility platform with a significant user base.
  • Focus on engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
  • Cultural emphasis on psychological safety within the team.
  • Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and cloud services.
  • Chance to mentor and develop peers within the engineering staff.
Full Job Description
Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. In this role you will help us create the elevated and superior version of www.geico.com working specifically to modernize the frameworks and technologies. In this role you will be a part of a technical transformation where engineering excellence, continuous improvement, AI automation, and a culture of psychological safety are paramount.

Position Description

Our Staff Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide friction-less experiences to our customers and maintaining the highest standards of protection and availability. Key engineering responsibilities will focus on the development and continued maintenance of several web applications and their supporting architecture, including both customer-facing experiences as well as internally developed web tools to facilitate content management.

Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge bringing forward a full stack mindset, work duties can range from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.

Position Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer, you will:

  • Evolve Geico.com and its supporting systems with a focus on speed to market, security, 24x7 availability, and user engagement.


  • Scope, design, and build scalable and resilient software solutions amongst diverse engineering groups


  • Utilize object-oriented languages, SQL based databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Cloud hosting tools and services


  • Perform engineering design evaluations and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization


  • Manage day-to-day activities of the engineering teams overseeing execution of software development projects against delivery commitments


  • Seek ways to simplify and standardize designs, operations, and deployment plans, focusing on reducing complexity and providing performance, agility, and scalability


  • Responsible for production operations support and ensuring availability, stability, and performance of production applications


  • Collaborate with cross-functional organizations throughout the entire software lifecycle to ensure technology and roadmap alignment


  • Manage projects and processes to keep the team organized, efficient, and optimally running


  • Set, manage, and report KPIs to measure progress and facilitate data-driven decision making


  • Responsible for evaluating and driving new technology and Open-Source software considerations


  • Research and guide architectural level changes that support and enhance application performance, security, and our drive to innovate


  • Mentor and manage engineering peers to help share the necessary skills to perform their jobs and develop their professional careers


Qualifications

  • Strong understanding of customer facing web applications with experience in Next.JS/React, JavaScript, Python/Django, NGINX, or PostgreSQL.


  • Ability to break down analytic data to drive decisions and results that will provide business value to the organization and help our customers


  • Strong background in delivering digital - web products at scale


  • Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts, platforms, and technologies


  • Advanced understanding of application and infrastructure monitoring and tooling


  • Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)


  • Experience designing flexible, scalable, high-availability Cloud native applications


  • Experience architecting and designing new and current systems


  • Strong understanding of CI/CD, Release Management, and Configuration Management processes tooling


  • Strong critical thinking, decision making, and problem-solving skills


  • Excellent verbal/written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate to both senior leadership and highly technical personnel


  • Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment


  • Experience delivering within a customer facing application backed by a Content Management system is desired


  • Understanding of data modeling and AI concepts is desired


Annual Salary
$105,000.00 - $260,000.00
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.

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new 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.
Learn more about Geico
Size
40,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1936

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