VP Software Engineering at GM Financial responsible for technology implementation strategy and leading product teams in Agile environment. Championing technology modernization and driving operational excellence.
About the role
- Staff Engineer leading design and development of GEICO's payment platform. Collaborating with cross-functional teams and ensuring high performance and security standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead Payment Platform Innovation: Architect and build scalable, secure payment systems, integrating real-time fraud detection, tokenization, and batch processing capabilities.
- Harness Data for Impact: Design data pipelines and analytics frameworks to monitor transaction health, detect fraud patterns, and optimize payment performance.
- Drive Strategy: Partner with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to define and execute a technical roadmap for payment modernization and analytics.
- Ensure Reliability: Own the performance, security, and usability of payment platforms, ensuring 99.9% uptime and compliance with industry standards.
- Mentor & Inspire: Coach engineers, share best practices, and influence stakeholders to elevate payment and data engineering expertise.
- Support Operations: Provide on-call support for payment systems, troubleshoot issues, and champion CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience designing complex systems, data pipelines, and architectures, with expertise in scaling, performance tuning, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Fluency and Specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design.
- Deep expertise in SQL & open-source databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, etc.) for transaction and analytics use cases.
- Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework.
- Nice to have: 3+ years working with Azure, AWS, or hybrid data centers.
- DevOps & Analytics: Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (Git, Jenkins, CircleCI) and monitoring tools like Grafana and OpenTelemetry for transaction observability.
- Big Data Expertise: Familiarity with the latest data architecture, streaming data pipelines (e.g., Apache Spark, Kafka), and AI/ML frameworks for fraud detection and analytics.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.
- 10 + years in software development, platform architecture, or infrastructure management, ideally with payment or fintech systems.
- 4+ years working with open-source frameworks.
- 3+ years in system architecture and design, preferably for payment or data platforms.
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.
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