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 through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.
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.
Build the future of insurance technology at GEICO
Why This Role Matters
At GEICO, we’re transforming how insurance works—from the inside out. As a Staff Software Engineer on our Underwriting Services Team, you’ll play a pivotal role in building and scaling the next generation of our underwriting platform across all lines of business. This is a high‑impact role where your technical leadership will directly influence how millions of customers experience GEICO.
You’ll help modernize tier‑1 underwriting services, replace manual processes with AI‑driven automation, and shape the evolution of a platform that must be highly available, secure, and built to scale. If you thrive in complex problem spaces, enjoy influencing architecture and strategy, and want to see your ideas move quickly into production—this role is for you.
What You’ll Do
As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll operate as both a hands‑on technical leader and a strategic partner to product, operations, and engineering leadership.
You will:
Lead the design, development, and production rollout of enterprise‑grade applications powering core underwriting capabilities
Architect highly available, scalable, and secure systems that solve complex business and customer problems
Own solutions end‑to‑end—from concept and design through deployment, optimization, and long‑term evolution
Drive architectural discussions, review designs and code, and elevate engineering standards across teams
Mentor and grow junior engineers, fostering a culture of learning, craftsmanship, and accountability
Partner closely with Product Managers and Underwriting Operations to deliver measurable business outcomes
Influence technical direction and educate stakeholders at all levels, from engineers to senior leadership
Champion best practices, innovation, and continuous improvement across the engineering organization
Lead modernization efforts, including migrating and transforming legacy systems
Ensure solutions meet high standards for quality, performance, reliability, and usability
What You Bring
We’re looking for a lead engineer who combines deep technical expertise with strong communication and leadership skills.
Core Qualifications
Expertise in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Go, or C++
Proven ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences
Strong autonomy in solving complex problems, including diagnosing and resolving critical production issues
Experience designing and building service‑oriented architectures using REST, gRPC, or similar protocols
Deep understanding of system architecture, design patterns, scalability, reliability, and performance
Extensive experience collaborating with senior engineers and technical leaders to shape engineering strategy
Strong knowledge of DevOps, cloud architecture, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
Hands‑on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including native cloud services
Practical experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
Strong background in observability, monitoring, and performance analysis
Solid foundation in computer science, including data structures and algorithms
A proactive mindset toward identifying and mitigating security risks
Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, evolving, “startup‑within‑an‑enterprise” environment
Experience Requirements
6+ years of professional software development experience with demonstrated impact in lead or principal‑level roles
4+ years of experience driving architectural design and leading large‑scale system initiatives
4+ years working with open‑source frameworks
4+ years of hands‑on cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP, or similar)
Nice to Have
Experience building AI/ML‑powered products, including conversational interfaces or applications leveraging LLMs
Why You’ll Love Working Here
Opportunity to shape mission‑critical systems used at massive scale
High ownership, high visibility, and real influence on technical direction
A collaborative culture that values innovation, curiosity, and engineering excellence
The chance to modernize legacy systems and build greenfield solutions with today’s best tools and practices
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Annual Salary
$110,000.00 - $230,000.00The 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.
The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.
We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.
Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.
Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.
As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.
Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.
- 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.
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.
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