Geico

Staff Software Engineer (Duck Creek/.NET) - Billing Platform *HYBRID*

Geico$110K — $230K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of professional software development experience
  • Expert-level knowledge of the .NET ecosystem (C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server)
  • Deep understanding of Duck Creek product architecture and implementation
  • Proven experience in microservices and extensible API design
  • Extensive experience with XML-based data/file systems
  • Hands-on leadership with Azure Cloud and DevOps pipelines
  • Practical experience with monitoring tools (App Insights, Splunk)
  • Strong understanding of CS fundamentals and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and optimize distributed systems with a hands-on approach
  • Implement enterprise solutions using .NET and related frameworks
  • Enhance core insurance systems and maintain Duck Creek applications
  • Develop services using SQL Server, Postgres, and microservices
  • Drive productivity tooling improvements through active usage
  • Define reusable components and architectural patterns
  • Lead technical design and code reviews, ensuring high standards

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment with options for Palo Alto, Dallas, or Chevy Chase headquarters
  • Opportunity to mentor and develop less experienced engineers
  • Engage with a technology-forward company emphasizing continuous improvement
  • Access to modern development tools, including GitHub Copilot
  • Participation in key cross-team initiatives promoting technical excellence
Full Job Description
About The Team

The Billing team at GEICO oversees the tools, infrastructure, data, reporting, analytics, and services essential for delivering seamless billing experiences to internal users, end customers, and partners. Our billing platform functions as the backbone for managing financial transactions and customer interactions, enhancing efficiency, accuracy, and customer satisfaction while supporting strategic growth and ensuring compliance.

What you will do

We are seeking a seasoned Duck Creek Software Engineer with extensive experience in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale applications and distributed systems. You will become an integral part of a team dedicated to managing GEICO's core billing platform. This platform includes a comprehensive array of components such as a core billing engine, invoicing system, commissions management, collections, payment processing, CRM integration, subscription management, credit control and dunning management, along with reporting and analytics. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in evolving and optimizing our existing platform, with a strong emphasis on improving its scalability, reliability, and efficiency.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will serve as a Staff Engineer, driving secure, performant, and highly available solutions at scale. Deliver hands-on technical contributions, architect and implement cross-team initiatives, and promote technical excellence in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Guide and mentor others while remaining deeply engaged with engineering at the code level.
  • Design, build, and optimize scalable, resilient distributed systems across teams (primary focus: hands-on development)
  • Implement enterprise solutions using .NET (C#) and related frameworks, contributing directly to codebases
  • Maintain and enhance core insurance systems built on Duck Creek
  • Develop and improve services using SQL Server, Postgres, REST APIs, microservices
  • Apply C# and Golang where most effective; prototype and evaluate new technologies
  • Drive adoption and improvement of productivity tooling (VS Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) through direct usage and feedback
  • Define and deliver reusable components and architectural patterns (business + technical), writing foundational code
  • Engineer solutions leveraging Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and automation frameworks
  • Apply best practices for monitoring and debugging with App Insights, Titan, and related tools
  • Guide, mentor, and support engineers (~30% focus); share best practices and foster knowledge growth
  • Contribute hands-on to product direction and solution design
  • Collaborate actively across the full software lifecycle (requirements through deployment), delivering code and processes
  • Lead and participate in technical design and code reviews; help enforce standards with code contributions


Qualifications
  • 8+ years of professional, hands-on software development experience
  • Expert-level .NET ecosystem experience (C#, ASP.NET, Web API, REST, SQL Server, Visual Studio/VS Code)
  • Deep Duck Creek product architecture and hands-on implementation experience
  • Proven expertise in microservices and extensible API design, with significant coding contributions
  • Extensive experience with XML-based data/file systems (XPath, XSD, XML serialization in .NET, etc.)
  • Strong distributed systems architecture and scaling capabilities
  • Hands-on leadership with Azure Cloud and DevOps pipelines
  • Practical experience with monitoring tools (App Insights, Splunk, Grafana/Prometheus)
  • Security best practices and protocols applied in real-world solutions
  • Advanced SQL and Postgres coding and optimization skills
  • Strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms) demonstrated in engineering output
  • Experience driving continuous delivery / modern deployment practices through implementation
  • Lifecycle tooling expertise (planning, source, build, deploy, operations) with practical involvement
  • Exceptional problem solving, technical influence, and mentoring skills
  • Outstanding technical communication and stakeholder management


Preferred Qualifications
  • GitHub Copilot / AI-assisted development hands-on experience
  • Implementation experience with event-driven and messaging platforms (Azure Service Bus, Kafka, etc.)
  • Extensive hands-on XML solutions and integrations


Education
  • Bachelor's and/or Master's Degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience


*This is a Hybrid role based out of the following offices*
  • Palo Alto, CA
  • Dallas, TX
  • Chevy Chase, MD


Annual Salary
$110,000.00 - $230,000.00
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.
Learn more about Geico
Size
40,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1936

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