Distinguished Engineer, Claims (Remote)

Distinguished Engineer – Claims

Position Summary GEICO is seeking a highly experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime modern platforms, and applications. You will help drive our Claims 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 innovation and continuous improvement.

Position Description
Our Distinguished Engineer works with Staff and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply their knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the 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 in their domain.

Position Responsibilities
As a Distinguished Engineer on the Claims team, you will:
• Focus on multiple areas and provide technical leadership to the enterprise.
• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems.
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains.
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Utilize programming languages like Python, C#, Java or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of cloud tools and services (Azure or AWS preferred).
• Mentor and help coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community.
• Influence and educate leadership at all levels.
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.
• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans.
• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning.
• Initial projects will include:
o Migrating legacy Claims applications to Azure.
o Modernizing Claims applications to be domain driven with micro-services and micro-frontends.
o Driving to fully automated testing and deployments to enable multiple releases daily.

Qualifications
• Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, Python or C# including object-oriented design.
• Experience building products with micro-services architecture and extensible REST APIs.
• Experience building the architecture and design of new and current systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling).
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.
Sensitivity: General/Internal
• Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud …