Software Engineer II (Fullstack/Java/React/Microservices) - *HYBRID*
GEICO
Location
🇺🇸 Palo Alto, United States
Type
full_time
Salary
$80k–$160k
Posted
3w ago
Job Description
Why Join GEICO? At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide. Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported, and proud to work here. That's why we offer the GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards, and Great Careers.
Position Summary
GEICO is seeking an experienced Software Engineer with a passion for building high-performance 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. Position Description Our Engineer II is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a delightful experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of observability and availability. The ideal candidate has deep technical knowledge of front-end UIs with React through middleware and into back-end systems and databases. Must be able to show proficiencies React-based front-end engineering concepts, Java, Linux, Microservices, Containers (Kubernetes), database modeling, performance tuning, query optimization, data sharding, partitioning, building, configuring, and maintaining PostgreSQL. Position
Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer II, you will: • Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems • Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle • Participate in design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization • Utilize programming languages like TypeScript, Java, C#, Python, and Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of 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 • Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams • Build product definition and leverage your