Job Description
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.
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 engineers for our Claims Technology team, with a passion for building high-performance, low-latency platforms, and applications.
If you are interested in transforming and building a new set of applications for Insurtech, this is a great opportunity to join as a founding member of the team while we expand our team in this space.
Position Description
Our Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions as well as leverage engineering solutions to solve critical operational problems. A Manager, Engineering will lead 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 to improve application performance, capacity benchmarking, improve availability and reliability.
Position Responsibilities
As a Manager, you will:
Work with your Senior Manager 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
Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
Report on your team’s progress for project and key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members
Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust
Influence those you motivate and coach to be receptive to feedback by cultivating a culture that acknowledges and expects individuals to grow and be accountable as a result of the experience gained (growth mindset)
Identify where technical or analytical skill gaps put future team deliverables at risk and craft a plan to remediate, consistently challenge team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies
Proficiently execute difficult conversations on development and performance
Manage up to leadership as well as give feedback when appropriate
Administer coaching plan(s) and Performance Improvement Plan(s)
Craft fully compliant quality documentation
Compliant negotiation and execution of warning administration and/or involuntary termination
Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals
Qualifications
Basic UI/UX and prototype design knowledge and experience
Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
Working knowledge of object-oriented development, Gang of Four (GOF) Design Patterns, Microservices, Dependency Injection with IOC containers, and both frontend and backend unit testing
Proven ability to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly
Strong Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) platform knowledge
In-depth knowledge of MS Office tools such as PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and WebEx for effective communication
Proficiency in Project Management and work item management tools such as Azure DevOps and Portfolio
Proficiency in Program Management tools such as MS Project, Visio, and Excel
Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts
Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal
Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go
Fluency with Spring, RESTful Web Services, and Event Driven Architectures and experience with open-source software is a big plus
Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
Experience in PowerShell Scripting
Constructing, interpreting, and applying metrics to your work and decision making, able to use those metrics to identify correlation between drivers and results, and using that information to drive prioritization and action
Experience
5+ years coding experience and development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
4+ years of hands-on work experience supervising and leading personnel in a technical environment
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent experience
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, ****** 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.
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.
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 engineers for our Claims Technology team, with a passion for building high-performance, low-latency platforms, and applications.
If you are interested in transforming and building a new set of applications for Insurtech, this is a great opportunity to join as a founding member of the team while we expand our team in this space.
Position Description
Our Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions as well as leverage engineering solutions to solve critical operational problems. A Manager, Engineering will lead 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 to improve application performance, capacity benchmarking, improve availability and reliability.
Position Responsibilities
As a Manager, you will:
Work with your Senior Manager 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
Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
Report on your team’s progress for project and key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members
Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust
Influence those you motivate and coach to be receptive to feedback by cultivating a culture that acknowledges and expects individuals to grow and be accountable as a result of the experience gained (growth mindset)
Identify where technical or analytical skill gaps put future team deliverables at risk and craft a plan to remediate, consistently challenge team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies
Proficiently execute difficult conversations on development and performance
Manage up to leadership as well as give feedback when appropriate
Administer coaching plan(s) and Performance Improvement Plan(s)
Craft fully compliant quality documentation
Compliant negotiation and execution of warning administration and/or involuntary termination
Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals
Qualifications
Basic UI/UX and prototype design knowledge and experience
Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
Working knowledge of object-oriented development, Gang of Four (GOF) Design Patterns, Microservices, Dependency Injection with IOC containers, and both frontend and backend unit testing
Proven ability to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly
Strong Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) platform knowledge
In-depth knowledge of MS Office tools such as PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and WebEx for effective communication
Proficiency in Project Management and work item management tools such as Azure DevOps and Portfolio
Proficiency in Program Management tools such as MS Project, Visio, and Excel
Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts
Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal
Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go
Fluency with Spring, RESTful Web Services, and Event Driven Architectures and experience with open-source software is a big plus
Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
Experience in PowerShell Scripting
Constructing, interpreting, and applying metrics to your work and decision making, able to use those metrics to identify correlation between drivers and results, and using that information to drive prioritization and action
Experience
5+ years coding experience and development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
4+ years of hands-on work experience supervising and leading personnel in a technical environment
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent experience
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, ****** 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.
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Manager, Staff Software Engineering position is now open for candidates interested in the Remote Jobs sector. This role in Richardson offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Remote Jobs is a plus.