Senior Engineer, Software (SWE) – GIA Platform

Government Employees Insurance Company; Washington; Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO, formally Government Employees Insurance Company, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build high-performance, zero-downtime platforms and modernize our insurance platform engineering. You will partner with Distinguished/Staff Engineers to design scalable systems, own production services, and drive the technical roadmap.

The role demands deep DevOps experience, strong CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud expertise, plus hands-on coding across Go/.NET.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
• Experience designing scalable, reliable production systems.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams to solve complex problems.
• Lead strategy and execution of a technical roadmap for platform modernization.
• Champion best practices and safe deployment processes for continuous delivery.
• Contribute to day-to-day engineering activities including feature code, tests, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Communicate with cross-discipline stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Use data to measure success and identify opportunities.

Skills

Go language

.NET

TDD

Data structures

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AWS/Azure/GCP

Security basics

Communication skills

Git

Jenkins

CircleCI

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

CircleCI

Job description

Why Join GEICO?

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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide. Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. 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 software engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation and platform engineering domain modernization as we redefine experience for our customers.

Position Description

Our Senior Software Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Staff Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in engineering best practices, extensive experience with DevOps, proven track record in designing and implementing highly scalable and available solutions, as well as owning production services and applications.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Collaborate with product managers, internal & external business partners, peers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems in our partner integration platform
• Contribute to our technical roadmap and execute software development strategy to enhance the capabilities of various platform components.
• Champion software development best practices and safe deployment processes to enable continuous, incremental delivery of business values.
• Contribute directly to, and leading by example in day-to-day engineering activities (writing feature code and automated tests, raising PRs and reviewing peers’ PRs, developing and managing CI/CD pipelines, production support, among others)
• Act as a technical project lead and collaborate with partnering teams as well as communicate with cross-discipline stakeholders on a regular basis
• Leverage data to measure success, identify opportunities, and recommend solutions.

Qualifications

• Advance knowledge of at least one modern OOP language (Go is preferred, .Net is a plus)
• Extensive first‑hand experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly scalable, available and reliable system in production
• Strong Test‑Driven Development practices (e.g., unit, functional, integration, load, etc.)
• In‑depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Understanding of security best practices (e.g., certificates, encryption)
• Familiar with relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
• Familiar with No‑SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, etc.
• Experience in architecting, designing, building automation, workflows, and distributed applications
• Strong understanding of service integrations/communication standards (e.g., gRPC/RESTful)
• Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD with IaaC
• Experience in solving complex problems with quantitative approach
• Knowledge of development tools across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real‑time communication)
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and best practices on a K8s environment (including K8s operators)
• Experience in open‑source tools like Git/Jenkins/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a plus
• Experience in supporting high‑volume production workloads and managing incidents
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to excel in a fast‑paced, startup‑like environment

Experience

• 4+ years of professional experience in software development
• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 3+ years of experience with Azure, AWS, GCP, or hybrid data center
• 2+ years of experience in open‑source frameworks

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Annual Salary

Annual Salary $105,000.00 - $215,000.00 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.

The GEICO Pledge: Great Company: Protecting customers through life's twists and turns with innovation and integrity. Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance. Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success. Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well‑being and future.

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.

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