Manager, Staff Software Engineer - MarTech and Ads Engineering (REMOTE)

Position Summary

GEICO MarTech and Ads organization is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. You will build and manage a team of engineers with a deep focus on delivering enterprise-wide products to operate in a highly performant and efficient way. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Position Description

Our Engineering Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions as well as leverage engineering solutions to solve critical operational problems. A Senior Engineering Manager will lead strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise to improve application performance, capacity benchmarking, improve availability and reliability, design and evolve cloud infrastructure and architecture.

Position Responsibilities

As a Engineering Manager, you will:

· 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

· Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas

· 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

· 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

· Influence those you motivate and coach to be receptive to feedback by cultivating a culture that acknowledges and expects individuals to grow and be accountable as a result of the experience gained (growth mindset)

· 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 strategic and well-structured persuasive arguments to drive projects that drive process improvement, enhance cost leadership, and/or customer experience

· Manage up to leadership as well as give feedback when appropriate

· Administer coaching plan(s) and Performance Improvement Plan(s)

· Craft fully compliant quality documentation

· Compliant negotiation and execution of warning administration and/or involuntary termination

· Develop the team budget and be accountable for reporting on results achieved at regular intervals

· Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals

Qualifications

· Fluency and specialization with Java, Python and SQL

· Experience with AI and ML technologies including MLflow, PyTorch and VectorDBs, Scikit-learn and Langchain

· Experience with data processing, ETL, DataRobot and Snowflake

· Experience building products of micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs

· Experience building the architecture and design of new and current systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, security, and scaling)

· Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture and Azure DevOps Operational Framework

· Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments

· In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms

· Experience with solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches

· Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

· Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap

· Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production

Experience

10+ years of engineering experience

5+ years of hands-on people leadership experience

5+ years of experience building large-scale, mission-critical applications

3+ years of experience building products with AI and ML

Annual Salary

$115,000.00 - $230,000.00

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.

Benefits:

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:

Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
401(k) Plan
Tuition Assistance
Paid Training and Licensures

*Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

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.