Hybrid Staff Software Engineer – Duck Creek, .NET – Billing Platform

at GEICO

• Job title: Staff Software Engineer – Duck Creek, .NET – Billing Platform
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $110,000 - $230,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: ASP.NET, Azure, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Docker, Grafana, Kubernetes, Microservices, Postgres, Prometheus, Splunk, SQL, Go, .NET
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chevy Chase, United States

About the role

• Staff Software Engineer designing and maintaining billing platform at GEICO. Innovating core financial systems with a focus on scalability and performance in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a Staff Engineer, driving secure, performant, and highly available solutions at scale.
• Deliver hands-on technical contributions, architect and implement cross-team initiatives, and promote technical excellence in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Guide and mentor others while remaining deeply engaged with engineering at the code level.
• Design, build, and optimize scalable, resilient distributed systems across teams (primary focus: hands-on development).
• Implement enterprise solutions using .NET (C#) and related frameworks, contributing directly to codebases.
• Maintain and enhance core insurance systems built on Duck Creek.
• Develop and improve services using SQL Server, Postgres, REST APIs, microservices.
• Apply C# and Golang where most effective; prototype and evaluate new technologies.
• Drive adoption and improvement of productivity tooling (VS Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) through direct usage and feedback.
• Define and deliver reusable components and architectural patterns (business + technical), writing foundational code.
• Engineer solutions leveraging Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and automation frameworks.
• Apply best practices for monitoring and debugging with App Insights, Titan, and related tools.
• Guide, mentor, and support engineers (~30% focus); share best practices and foster knowledge growth.
• Contribute hands-on to product direction and solution design.
• Collaborate actively across the full software lifecycle (requirements through deployment), delivering code and processes.
• Lead and participate in technical design and code reviews; help enforce standards with code contributions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional, hands-on software development experience
• Expert-level .NET ecosystem experience (C#, ASP.NET, Web API, REST, SQL Server, Visual Studio/VS Code)
• Deep Duck Creek product architecture and hands-on implementation experience
• Proven expertise in microservices and extensible API design, with significant coding contributions
• Extensive experience with XML-based data/file systems (XPath, XSD, XML serialization in .NET, etc.)
• Strong distributed systems architecture and scaling capabilities
• Hands-on leadership with Azure Cloud and DevOps pipelines
• Practical experience with monitoring tools (App Insights, Splunk, Grafana/Prometheus)
• Security best practices and protocols applied in real-world solutions
• Advanced SQL and Postgres coding and optimization skills
• Strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms) demonstrated in engineering output
• Experience driving continuous delivery / modern deployment practices through implementation
• Lifecycle tooling expertise (planning, source, build, deploy, operations) with practical involvement
• Exceptional problem solving, technical influence, and mentoring skills
• Outstanding technical communication and stakeholder management.

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.