Senior Engineer, Software (SWE) – GIA Platform
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 9, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 18, 2026. GEICO scores B on the Alion truth index.
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 senior software engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications.You will help drive our insurance business transformation and platform engineering domain modernization as we redefine experience for our customers.
Position Description
Our Senior Software Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Staff Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identifynew opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will leadthestrategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocityof delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertiseinengineering best practices, extensive experience with DevOps,proven track recordindesigningandimplementinghighly scalable and available solutions, as well as owning production services and applications.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
Collaborate with product managers, internal & external business partners, peers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problemsin our partner integration platform
Contribute toour technical roadmap and execute software development strategy to enhance the capabilities of various platform components.
Champion software development best practices and safe deployment processes to enable continuous, incremental delivery of business values.
Contribute directly to and leading by example in day-to-day engineering activities (writing feature code and automated tests, raising PRs and reviewing peers’ PRs, developingand managing CI/CD pipelines, production support, among others)
Act as a technical project leadand collaborate with partnering teams as well as communicate with cross-discipline stakeholderson a regular basis
Leveragedatatomeasuresuccess,identifyopportunities, and recommend solutions.
Qualifications
Advance knowledge of at least one modern OOP language (Go is preferred, .Netis a plus)
Extensive first-handexperience designing, implementing, and maintaininghighly scalable, availableand reliable system in production
Strong Test-Driven Development practices (e.g., unit, functional, integration, load, etc.)
In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
Understanding of security best practices (e.g., certificates, encryption)
Familiarwith relationaldatabases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
Familiar with No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB,Redis,etc.
Experience in architecting, designing, building automation, workflows, and distributed applications
Strong understanding of service integrations/communication standards (e.g., gRPC/RESTful)
Experience in building and maintainingCI/CDwith IaaC
Experience in solving complex problems with quantitative approach
Knowledge of developmenttoolsacross the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)
Knowledge ofKubernetes, containers,and best practices on a K8s environment (including K8s operators)
Experience in open-source tools like Git/Jenkins/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a plus
Experience in supporting high-volume production workloads and managing incidents
Excellent communication skills
Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
Experience:
4+ years of professional experience in software development
3+ years of experience with architecture and design
3+ years of experience with Azure,AWS, GCP, or hybrid data center
2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
Education:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
Annual Salary
$105,000.00 - $215,000.00The 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.The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.
Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.
Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.
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.