Staff Engineer - Duck Creek (REMOTE)

GEICO; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 115,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is seeking a Staff Engineer to enhance its commercial insurance tech platforms. This role involves leading engineering teams, driving transformation towards high-performance applications, and mentoring junior engineers in a culture of continuous improvement. The candidate will utilize a breadth of technical expertise across various platforms in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

401K savings plan with 6% match

Tuition assistance

Mental healthcare support

Flexible workplace

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience building products using micro-services oriented architecture.
• Fluency in DevOps concepts and cloud architecture.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to the engineering teams.
• Influence and build vision to solve complex problems.
• Mentor junior team members and share best practices.

Skills

C# .Net

Java

Python

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

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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 highly skilled Staff Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications especially optimize and resolve performance issues in our commercial insurance tech platforms. 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.

Position Description

Our Staff Engineer is a lead member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. 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 technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.

Position Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer, you will:

• Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams
• Own complete solution across its entire life cycle
• Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
• Utilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
• Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
  
  

Qualifications

• Fluency and specialization C# .Net and at least one additional modern language such as Java, C++, Python including object-oriented design
• Experience in 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 continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
• Fluency in DevOps Concepts and Cloud Architecture
• Experience in leveraging PowerShell scripting
• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
• Experience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
• Ability to document and improve workflow and system topology using Microsoft Visio
• Ability to use Azure DevOps (ADO) and document task and story progress, as well as create new tasks and user stories
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
  
  

Experience

• 6+ years of professional software development experience in Duck Creek, C# .Net, CBO, Author, and ManuScript
• 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
  
  

Education

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

Annual Salary

$115,000.00 - $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.

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Insurance

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