Senior Engineer, Underwriting

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 a Senior Engineer to join our Underwriting Services Team. In this role, you will build and scale the next generation of underwriting platform for all business lines in Geico and revamp existing tier-1 underwriting services. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization by designing, developing, and deploying core consumer experiences that leverage AI, ensuring they are robust, scalable and production ready.    

The Service Underwriting Engineering team partners closely with GEICO's underwriting operations team to design, build, and enhance applications that streamline underwriting processes and improve decision-making efficiency. The team develops scalable, reliable solutions that enable underwriters to work smarter, faster, and with accuracy, and aim to replace repetitive manual work with AI and automation.  

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineer, you will:  

• Build up domain knowledge in one or more major areas in the team and provide technical and thought leadership to design, build, and productionize systems 
• Design and develop highly available, scalable and secure software solutions to cater business needs with quality and expected timelines 
• Own complete solution across its entire life cycle  
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions  
• Collaborate with Product Manager and Operations team to align project goals and requirements.  
• Influence and educate leadership at all levels 
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams  

Qualifications

• Experience with designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining solutions for distributed systems 
• Fluency and specialization with at least one modern language such as Java, Go, or C++ 
• Experience with services-oriented architecture with modern API protocols such as gRPC and REST 
• Experience with event driven architecture with Kafka, container orchestration with Kubernetes or Docker.  
• Experience with data storage  
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code 
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment 
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle  
• Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems 
• Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure/AWS DevOps Operational Framework 
• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate complete technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders 

Experience

• 4+ years of professional experience in software engineering 
• 2+ years of experience with security, identity, architecture, and design 
• 2+ years of experience with open-source frameworks is desired 
• 2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service 

Nice To Haves

• Experience building AI/ML products, conversational interfaces particularly with LLMs or similar AI models 

Education

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

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: 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.