Posted:
9/23/2024, 6:19:43 AM
Location(s):
Seattle, Washington, United States ⋅ Washington, United States
Experience Level(s):
Senior
Field(s):
Software Engineering
Our Senior Staff Engineering Manager for Partner Platform and Marketplace is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build a new platform for seamless and efficient partner integrations. This role reports to the Head of Partner Platform and will be vital to develop a modernized developer facing platform for end-to-end partner onboarding and integration to support one of the fastest growing business areas at GEICO. A Senior Staff Manager will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new business capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise of full stack architecture design, application performance improvement, capacity benchmarking, availability and reliability improvement, building personalization, notification, event streaming, data analytics and dashboard/reports.
Position Responsibilities:
As a Senior Staff Manager, you will:
Work with your Senior 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.
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
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 with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus
Basic knowledge and experience in UI/UX and prototype design, digital experimentation and using web analytics data to optimize the online customer experience
Working knowledge of object-oriented development, typical software design patterns, microservices, dependency Injection with IOC containers, and modern software testing practices
Proven ability to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly
Strong Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) platform knowledge
Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts
Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal
Experience with 3rd party partner integrations and full suite developer facing platform
Experience developing B2B or B2C large scale marketplace
Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
Constructing, interpreting, and applying metrics to your work and decision making, able to use those metrics to identify correlation between drivers and results, and using that information to drive prioritization and action
Professional Experience:
8+ years of experience in building enterprise-grade software applications or platforms
5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment
5+ years of experience managing software development teams with performance management responsibilities
2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
Annual Salary
$105,001.65 - $280,004.40The 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.
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:
*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.
Website: http://www.geico.com/
Headquarter Location: Chase, Maryland, United States
Employee Count: 10001+
Year Founded: 1936
IPO Status: Private
Industries: Auto Insurance ⋅ Financial Services ⋅ Government ⋅ Insurance ⋅ Internet ⋅ Mobile