[Remote] Distinguished Engineer, Underwriting {REMOTE}

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GEICO is a leading insurance company dedicated to providing quality coverage and exceptional service to millions of customers. The company is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the development of high-performance platforms and applications, driving the transformation of their insurance business by enhancing engineering capabilities and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Focus on multiple areas in Underwriting and provide technical leadership to the org
• Collaborate with product managers, business operations, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains, evolve tech stack to utilize modern backend and frontend frameworks, storage, event and messaging solutions
• Provide technical leadership in adopting AI in various Underwriting task handling, development and testing activities.
• Hands-on designing, developing, testing and launching major projects while leading other engineers to contribute
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• 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

Skills

• Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, Kotlin, Golang or C# including object-oriented design.
• Experience designing new and improving existing systems with architecture excellence, design patterns, reliability, and scalability in mind.
• Experience building micro-services oriented architecture with gRPC interfaces, and event driven systems with Kafka.
• Proficient in programming languages like Java, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, containers such as Kubernetes, and a variety of cloud tools and services.
• Experience with continuous building, delivery and infrastructure as code.
• Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and operational portals on major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Experience in leveraging scripting languages for task automation.
• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance tuning.
• Experience in security protocols and products: understanding of directory service, SAML, OAuth.
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches.
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap.
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production.
• 12+ years of professional software development experience within a Java framework (J2EE, web containers and Java), or similar modern languages such as Kotlin, Golang, or C#.
• 10+ years of experience with architecture and design.
• 6+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service.
• 6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks.
• Experience with risk engineering, compliance, operations, or InsurTech is a plus.
• Experience in the Insurance or Underwriting domains.
• Proven ability to integrate AI/ML technologies into applications to enhance efficiency and scalability.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.

Benefits

• 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.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

Company Overview

• GEICO, Government Employees Insurance Company, has been providing affordable auto insurance since 1936. It is a sub-organization of Berkshire Hathaway. It was founded in 1936, and is headquartered in Chase, Maryland, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.geico.com.

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