Senior Go/Java Back End Engineer - People & Finance Technology (REMOTE)
MD Chevy Chase (Office) - JPS
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 Go/Java Back End Engineers within our People & Finance Technology organization that bring a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms and applications.
As a Senior Go/Java Back End Engineer, you will be a key member of the engineering staff, work in a highly collaborative environment and be a core contributor while we expand the team in this space. 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.
The ideal candidate has deep technical knowledge in back-end systems and a proven background in Java and/or Go, Linux, Microservices, Containers (Kubernetes), and database modeling, performance tuning, query optimization, data sharding, partitioning, building, configuring, and maintaining PostgreSQL.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Back End Engineer, you will:
Utilize programming languages like Java and/or Go; Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes; Azure tools and services across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) to perform advanced-level Java application design and PostgreSQL database design, implementation, and maintenance under minimal direction
Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems
Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution.
Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle
Lead in design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
Define, create, and support reusable application and database components/patterns from a business and technology perspective
Mentor other engineers
Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
Qualifications
Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, Go, Python and/or Spark, including object-oriented design
Proven understanding of micro-services architecture and extensible REST APIs
Experience with PostgreSQL database design, implementation, and administration
Knowledge of Kubernetes or willingness and ability …
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Benefits/PerksHealth and well-being Paid training Paid Training and Licensures Total Rewards Program Tuition reimbursement
Tasks- Application design
- Build scalable, resilient distributed systems
- Code reviews
- Design sessions
- Engage in cross-functional collaboration
- Implementation
- Improve processes
- Lead design sessions and code reviews
- Lead in design sessions and code reviews
- Mentor engineers
- Mentor other engineers
- Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems
- Share best practices
- Share best practices and improve processes
Active Directory Algorithms APIs Application monitoring Applications AWS Azure Azure tools Azure tools and services Cloud Architecture Container Orchestration Containers Continuous delivery CS Data Structures CS data structures and algorithms Data Structures Data structures and algorithms Design Patterns DevOps DevOps Concepts Docker GCP Go Infrastructure as Code Java Kubernetes Linux Microservices Monitoring OAUTH Object-oriented design Performance Tuning PostgreSQL Python REST REST APIs SAML Security protocols Software Development Spark SQL
Experience4 years
EducationComputer Science Equivalent Education Information Systems Work experience
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