Senior Go/Java Back End Engineer - People & Finance Technology (REMOTE)

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 …