Hybrid Senior Manager, Staff Engineering – Software Development, Microservices

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About the role

  • Senior Staff Engineering Manager overseeing a team to build high performance solutions for GEICO's insurance platform. Driving technical roadmaps and enhancing engineering capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Work with your Director to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
  • Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
  • Report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
  • Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
  • Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members
  • Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
  • Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust
  • Collaborate with the product teams to understand their pain points around performance, resiliency and formulate strategies to address recurring issues in a sustainable way
  • Cultivate a culture of motivation and achievement, building and maintaining trustful relationships with team members
  • Address technical or analytical skill gaps, challenging team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies
  • Contribute as a hands-on technical leader to the architecture, system design and implementation of core services including API and microservice development, storage/persistence implementations, messaging and a variety of other technical areas.
  • Constantly up to date with current software engineering best practices
  • Identify where technical or analytical skill gaps put future team deliverables at risk and craft a plan to remediate, consistently challenge team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies
  • Proficiently execute difficult conversations on development and performance
  • Craft and deliver persuasive arguments to drive projects for process improvement, cost leadership, and customer experience enhancement
  • Manage up to leadership and provide feedback when necessary
  • Mindset of efficiency and utilization improvements
  • Contribute significantly to the team planning process, including surfacing team’s proposals
  • Ability to construct roadmaps, manage and translate projects into deliverables, adjust priorities, and be able to understand and adjust the team capacity as needed

Requirements

  • Fluency with C#/ .NET , HTML-5, JavaScript/TypeScript, XML, JSON, RESTful Web Services, and Event Driven Architectures
  • Fluency with at least one additional modern language such as Java , Python or GO and experience with open-source software is a big plus
  • Ability to be hands-on developing software at least 10-20% of the time
  • Strong knowledge of system design, architecture and full lifecycle of design, implementation and productionizing of core Services and APIs .
  • Passionate for all things testing (unit, integration, functional, performance, etc.)
  • Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts
  • Implemented RESTful and GRPC services, event driven architecture, micro-services , messaging technology and optimal storage/persistence approaches.
  • Knowledge of cloud computing technologies (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS, etc.)
  • Knowledge of Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.)
  • Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
  • Understanding of SQL, and NoSQL databases, including stateful services management and storage
  • Ability to construct, interpret, and apply metrics for decision-making, prioritization, and progress visibility
  • Strong site reliability engineering principles
  • Strong passion for technology and engineering excellence
  • Exceptional leadership and communication skills
  • Effective negotiation abilities
  • Strategic thinking and the ability to drive projects for positive change

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.

Job title

Senior Manager, Staff Engineering – Software Development, Microservices

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$140,000 - $300,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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