Senior Software Engineer

GEICO GEICO · Insurance · Bethesda, MD +2

Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing, building, and maintaining GEICO's large-scale billing platform, which handles financial transactions, customer interactions, and supports strategic growth and compliance. The role involves overseeing system designs, ensuring quality and reliability, leading complex software development, identifying technical challenges, and mentoring engineers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Oversee high-level and low-level designs of one or more sub-systems of the billing platform we are building
  2. Be responsible and accountable for the quality, reliability, usability, and performance of the solutions Provide strategic guidance and oversight for multiple billing teams, ensuring alignment with the Platform's technical vision and business objectives
  3. Lead the design and development of complex software systems, ensuring they are scalable, maintainable, and meet high-quality standards. This includes evaluating code quality and collaborating with stakeholders to understand and implement project requirements
  4. Identify and prioritize technical challenges that may pose risks to business. Develop solutions to address these issues efficiently, ensuring smooth product development
  5. Work closely with various departments, including product management and design, to ensure cohesive and successful project delivery. Facilitate effective communication and collaboration across teams to achieve common goals

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of professional, hands-on software development experience
  • Strong experience in architecting and designing large-scale, complex systems
  • Proficient coding skills in C#, Java, Kotlin, Golang, or similar languages
  • Experience with a wide range of technologies, including SQL and NoSQL databases, ASB, Kafka, Spark, Airflow, or their equivalents
  • Proficient in using cloud computing tools throughout the software development lifecycle
  • deep expertise in DevOps, observability, telemetry, and test automation
  • Skilled in collaborating across engineering teams and other functions to build alignment, drive decision-making, and communicate transparently
  • Strong problem solving and mentoring capability
  • Effective technical communication

Nice to have

  • Advanced .NET ecosystem experience (C#, ASP.NET, Web API, REST, SQL Server, Visual Studio/VS Code)
  • Microservices and extensible API design expertise
  • Experience working with XML-based data/file systems (XPath, XSD, XML serialization in .NET etc.)
  • GitHub Copilot / AI-assisted development experience
  • Event-driven and messaging platforms (Azure Service Bus, Kafka, etc.)
  • Working with XML
  • DuckCreek product experience
  • Proven track record in designing and implementing workflow engines

What the JD emphasized

  • extensive experience in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale applications and distributed systems
  • extensive experience in architecting and designing large-scale, complex systems
  • Proficient coding skills in C#, Java, Kotlin, Golang, or similar languages, capable of producing high-performance, production-quality code
  • Proficient in using cloud computing tools throughout the software development lifecycle, with deep expertise in DevOps, observability, telemetry, and test automation