Senior Manager, Staff Software Engineering

GEICO; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is seeking an Senior Staff Engineering Manager to lead engineering strategy and execution for a core insurance platform. You will drive the technical roadmap, architecture, and velocity of product delivery across multiple teams, with a focus on performance, reliability, and cloud infrastructure.

The role requires deep experience in microservices, data architecture, and leadership in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Exemplary ability to influence engineering direction and product roadmap.
• Experience leading architecture and design of scalable systems.
• Strong knowledge of data observability, traceability, and testing.
• Expertise in designing microservices with GraphQL, gRPC, Java, Python, Kafka.
• Deep OO design with Java and at least one other modern language.
• ETL and SQL, including bitemporal data modeling.
• API migration experience and shadow/dual-write strategies.
• Leadership of full-stack SaaS product development.
• Proficiency with MySQL/PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and the enterprise.
• Collaborate across teams to solve our toughest problems.
• Deliver high-scale data architecture and legacy-to-modern transitions.
• Deliver high-quality services for diverse domains.
• Accountable for quality, usability, and performance of solutions.
• Work with product teams to address performance, resiliency issues.
• Cultivate motivation and trust within the team.
• Identify project risks and propose actionable solutions.
• Develop the team's roadmap and report progress with metrics.

Skills

Engineering leadership

System architecture

Data observability

Microservices stack

Event-driven architectures

Java + OO

ETL/SQL

API migration

Shadow mode / dual-write

Full-stack leadership

Databases

Startup environment

Tools

GraphQL

gRPC

Kafka

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Cosmos

Cassandra

Apache Trino

Job description

Why Join GEICO?

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

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.

• Hybrid Position: Bethesda, MD

Our Senior Staff Engineering Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions and leverage them to solve critical operational problems. This resource will lead defining the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities in our core insurance platform. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise to drive system design, architecture and implementation, improve application performance, capacity benchmarking, improve availability and reliability, design and evolve cloud infrastructure and services.

• Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
• Collaborate across teams and the tech organization to solve our toughest problems
• Deliver high-scale and high-quality data architecture, especially legacy-to-modern platform transitions.
• Deliver High-Quality services and software for a variety of domains
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Proven ability to collaborate with the product teams to understand their pain points around performance, resiliency and formulate strategies to address recurring issues in a sustainable way
• Cultivate a culture of motivation and achievement, building and maintaining trustful relationships with team members
• Address technical or analytical skill gaps, challenging team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies
• Work with your Director to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
• Develop the teams roadmap, and report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics for the business, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery

Qualifications

• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
• Experience leading and building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
• Strong understanding of data observability, traceability, and multi-faceted testing
• Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using graphQL, gRPC, Java, Python, Kafka, with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures.
• Proven experience designing and delivering highly-resilient event-driven and messaging based solutions at scale with minimal latency.
• Fluency and Specialization with Java and at least one other modern language such as C#, C++, or Python including object-oriented design
• Deep knowledge of ETL, SQL, bitemporal data modeling and temporal databases.
• Experience with API-based migration
• Experience with shadow mode, dual-write, and deconversion strategies.
• Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development, with a strong focus on SAAS products / platforms.
• Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Cosmos, Cassandra. Apache Trino etc.
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

Experience

• 8+ years of experience in leadership position
• 6+ years coding experience (Java / .Net)
• 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission‑critical environment
• 5+ years of hands‑on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment

Annual Salary

$150,000.00 - $300,000.00

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.

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.