Senior Engineer – Full Stack, Strategy Foundation Engineering *Remote*

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.

Position Summary 

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Engineer with a passion for working full stack and building high-performance, low maintenance, and highly available platforms and web applications. You will lead by example to drive our technology and 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.
 
Position Description 

As a Senior Engineer in the Strategy, Analytics, and Operations organization, you will design and develop modern full stack software systems from database to web page. You will uncover and analyze the relationships between people, services, and work, discovering new insights that unlock new growth and efficiency. You will pair deep technical expertise (hybrid-cloud, data platforms, responsive web frameworks) with strong collaboration skills to elevate engineering standards and foster a culture of innovation and learning.

Position Responsibilities 
As a Senior Engineer, you will: 

• Design, develop, and deliver end-to-end features: scalable backend systems, performant APIs, data pipelines, and responsive web UIs
• Own quality and reliability across the stack, implementing automates testing and observability for both frontend and backend components
• Mentor and coach engineers to strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
• Champion continuous improvement and consistently share best practices within and across teams  
• Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution  
• ​Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle  
• ​Lead in design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization  
• ​Define, create, and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective  

Required Qualifications

Deep hands-on professional experience designing, building, and operating scalable backend and data-intensive systems with an emphasis on performance

• Experience designing and building modern single-page applications (React, Angular, Vue)
• Fluency in at least one of Golang, Python, Java, C++ as well as JavaScript / TypeScript
• Strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, complexity analysis)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes (containerization, orchestration, deployment)
• Understanding of open-source relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) or NoSQL column stores (Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.)
• Ownership of continuous integration and delivery pipelines (CI/CD) and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows (Terraform)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills – comfortable leading projects and presenting solutions to clients and sponsors on a regular basis

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building microservice architectures and REST/gRPC APIs in production
• Production experience with event-streaming and big-data stacks (Kafka, Lambda, Flink, Spark)

• Familiarity with observability stacks (Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus) and SRE practices
• Knowledge of developer productivity tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, automated testing, GitHub Actions, real-time communication)
• Familiarity with design systems, single-page application optimizations, and web testing
• Previous contributions to open-source projects, tech talks, or technical blogs

Experience 

• 4+ years of professional experience with production software systems, including software development, platform architecture, infrastructure management, data governance, web UIs, and network operations
• 3+ years of experience with the architecture and design of distributed solutions (microservices, event-driven, or data-intensive)
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and hybrid cloud environments 
• 2+ years of experience with open-source frameworks / libraries

Education 

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

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.