Distinguished Engineer

Geico is seeking a Distinguished Engineer with a passion for building greenfield platforms and tools in the performance, capacity, and efficiency domain. This role is pivotal in driving cost and resource efficiency through improvements in technology architecture and engineering. The successful candidate will deliver data-driven, end-to-end demand, capacity, and utilization management solutions. You will lead the technical strategy and execution of critical initiatives and roadmaps that will enhance the productivity of the engineering organization, ensuring that infrastructure and services run in a performant and cost-effective manner.

Position Responsibilities:

 As a Distinguished Engineer, you will:

• Provide architectural and thought leadership across several interdependent engineering teams, systems, and service offerings.

• Serve as the technical expert, researching, evaluating, and implementing state-of-the art open-source technologies, and contributing to open-source software.

• Be responsible for hands-on technical outcomes, delivering a unified developer engineering experience for all customer-facing applications.

• Develop and lead the multi-year architecture and technology strategy for the entire organization.

• Drive system and platform thinking within development teams.

• Act as a role model and mentor to senior and junior engineers, guiding them in understanding architecture, design, and system implementation.

• Maintain excellent communication with partner teams and leads, articulating technical implementations for various stakeholders, and ensuring alignment across teams.

• Provide deep technical expertise and thought leadership to accelerate the adoption of best engineering practices while staying informed about industry innovations, trends, and practices. • Contribute to the Geico developer community and open-source projects.

Qualifications:

 • Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack web applications, with a strong focus on front-end technologies such as React, TypeScript, Bootstrap, and Django-based backends. Sensitivity: Company-Internal

• Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using Go, Python, Django, gRPC, Kafka, and Apache Spark, with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures.

• Experience in building AI/ML capabilities for forecasting and recommendation-based systems. • Expertise in building architecture, design patterns, and developing new frameworks.

• Strong knowledge in data model design on relational databases like PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases such as Cassandra and MongoDB.

• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle, including task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, and real-time communication.

• Contributions to open-source projects (preferred).

Experience:

 • 15+ years of experience in full-stack web development (Go/Python/Java), with expertise in client-side and server-side frameworks and a focus on user experience.

• 8+ years of experience working with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and private cloud technologies (OpenStack).

• 6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks.

• 4+ years of experience in AI/ML. Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.

Benefits:

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
• Paid vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Training and Licensures

*Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

Annual Salary

$150,000.00 - $300,000.00

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.

Benefits:

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Training and Licensures

*Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

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.