About GEICO Technology Solutions
At GEICO Technology Solutions, we are on a journey to revolutionize the Insurtech space with our technology offerings in the Insurance market and provide excellent service with better efficiency to our Customers and Associates. To achieve our vision and mission, we are focusing on transforming our existing tech to deliver products and capabilities that are marketplace ready and are agnostic of the Line of Business or the Channel utilized.
With this massive mission, we are looking to build a strong team of skilled and talented software engineers within our People & Finance Technology organization to be a core contributor while we expand the team in this space.
As a Principal Engineer, you will be a key member of the engineering staff, work in a highly collaborative environment and have 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.
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 full stack development experience with a focus on Go, Java, Python, and/or Spark.
Position Responsibilities
- Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams
- Own complete solution across its entire lifecycle
- Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications
- Be accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
- Utilize programming languages like Java, Python, Go, and/or Spark as well as NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services (Docker, Kubernetes) and a variety of Azure tools and services
- Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
- Define, create, and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective
- Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems
- Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution
- Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
- Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential
Qualifications
- Fluency and Specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, Python, Go, and/or Spark, including object-oriented design
- Experience building products using micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
- Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience with open-source SQL like PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases
- Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture and Azure DevOps Operational Framework
- Experience with asynchronous communication such as Kafka or ASB
- Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
- Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
- In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
Experience
- 8+ years of professional software development experience within a Java framework (J2EE, web containers, and Java)
- 5+ years of experience with architecture and design
- 5+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
- 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
- 1+ years of people management experience
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
Benefits
As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our benefits to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:
- Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period
- Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
- 401(k) Plan
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Training and Licensures