Senior Engineer

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.
About The Team
Join the
Claims Platform Engineering - Communications team
and revolutionize how insurance claims communications work. We build the multi-channel communications infrastructure (letters, emails, texts, fax) that connects adjusters with customers, enabling seamless interactions throughout the claims journey.

Strategic Projects Examples

• Next-Gen Communications Rules Engine: Build a sophisticated low-code/no-code platform enabling business users to design automated communication workflows. Tackle challenges in event-driven architecture, rule evaluation, workflow orchestration, and intuitive UI design for complex logic.
• Dynamic Letter Generation Platform: An intelligent document generation system producing personalized, compliant correspondence at scale.
• Gen AI-Powered Communications: Leverage generative AI to create personalized user communications including text messaging, email, and letter generation, ensuring tone, compliance, and customer experience excellence.

Why This Role

• Build cloud-native systems with modern technologies (Java 21, Spring Boot 3.x, Kafka, Temporal)
• Direct impact on millions of customers and thousands of adjusters daily
• Shape architecture and engineering practices for strategic platforms
• Work on complex, interesting problems spanning distributed systems, orchestration, and integration
• Collaborate across Product, UX, and business stakeholders

If you're passionate about building impactful systems that transform customer and employee experiences, let's talk.

Job Title: Senior Engineer
We are seeking an experienced Senior Java Engineer with deep expertise in Java (preferably Java 21), extensive experience building scalable, cloud-native applications using Spring Boot 3.x, and a passion for leveraging modern AI coding assistants. This role requires a strong product mindset, focusing on delivering customer value through close collaboration with cross-functional partners. Experience with modern full stack web development is preferable.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Excellence & System Design
• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable Java applications using Spring Boot 3.4.x
• Architect cloud-native solutions with best practices for distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and observability
• Make informed tradeoffs between technical excellence and time-to-market
• Operational Excellence
• Integrate observability (metrics, distributed tracing, structured logging, monitoring) into applications
• Optimize application performance, memory usage, and reliability
• Implement automated testing, deployment, and rollback strategies for safe, frequent releases
• Build runbooks, participate in on-call rotations, and lead post-incident reviews
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Product Mindset
• Collaborate with Product, UX/Design, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to deliver robust RESTful APIs and microservices
• Participate actively in Agile Scrum processes with the product team
• Work with DevOps/Platform teams to improve developer experience and CI/CD pipelines
• Understand customer problems and business outcomes, not just implementation details
• Leadership & Mentorship
• Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and establish engineering best practices
• Leverage AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) to accelerate development
• Contribute to architecture evolution with focus on modern Java, cloud technologies, and observability

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years Java development experience (Java 11+ required, Java 21 preferred)
• Expert knowledge of Spring Boot (3.x preferred), Spring Cloud, and related frameworks
• Proven experience with cloud-native applications (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
• Experience with observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Micrometer, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency using AI coding assistants in daily workflows
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (design, testing, version control)
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and deliver customer-facing features

Preferred Qualifications

• Modern UI development for web applications
• Reactive programming, asynchronous processing, and Java concurrency features
• Deep familiarity with distributed tracing, log aggregation, and alerting
• Security best practices for cloud applications
• Open-source contributions or technical community involvement
• Team mentorship or leadership experience
• A/B testing, feature flags, and data-driven product development
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
• Experience in fast-paced, customer-focused product organizations
• Product analytics tools and data-driven technical decisions

Annual Salary
$105, $215,000.00

The 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.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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.