Senior Backend Software Engineer - Data (REMOTE)
Posted 2025-06-16Job title: Senior Backend Software Engineer - Data (REMOTE) in Chevy Chase, MD at GEICO
Company: GEICO
Job description: Position SummaryGEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. 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.Position DescriptionOur Senior Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working on Web solutions ensuring that we provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.Position ResponsibilitiesAs a Senior Engineer, you will:
- 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 components/patterns from a business and technology perspective
- Utilize programming languages like JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C#, Python, Go, and Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
- Mentor other engineers
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
- Utilizes developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) to perform advanced-level Mobile/Web/UI design, implementation, and maintenance activities under minimal direction
- Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, Spring Boot, Python, Golang, including object-oriented design
- Proven understanding of micro-services architecture and extensible REST APIs
- Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework
- Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal
- Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
- Knowledge of security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth
- In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
- Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
- Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience in Web Application Frameworks
- Experience in securing web applications
- 4+ years of professional software development experience within Web frameworks/SDKs/languages such as Java, Spring Boot, Python, Golang, including object-oriented design
- 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
- 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
- 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
- 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.
- In office and remote opportunities, as well as our signature GEICO Flex program, offering the ability to work remotely for up to four weeks per year.
Expected salary: $90000 - 185000 per year
Location: Chevy Chase, MD
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