Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

The Billing Platform team at GEICO oversees the tools, infrastructure, data, reporting, analytics, and services essential for delivering seamless billing experiences to internal users, end customers, and partners. Our billing platform functions as the backbone for managing financial transactions and customer interactions, enhancing efficiency, accuracy, and customer satisfaction while supporting strategic growth and ensuring compliance., We are seeking a lead Backend Software Engineer with extensive experience in designing, building, and maintaining large-scale applications and distributed systems. You will become an integral part of a team dedicated to managing GEICO’s core billing platform. This platform includes a comprehensive array of components such as a core billing engine, invoicing system, commissions management, collections, payment processing, CRM integration, subscription management, credit control and dunning management, along with reporting and analytics.

• In this role, you will play a pivotal role in re-architecting our platform from the ground up, focusing on enhancing the scalability and efficiency of our systems.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to high-level and low-level designs of one or more sub-systems of the billing platform we are building Be responsible for the quality, reliability, usability, and performance of the solutions you deliver

• Provide technical input and support across multiple billing teams, helping ensure alignment with the Platform’s technical vision and business objectives
• Participate in the design and development of complex software systems, ensuring they are scalable, maintainable, and meet high-quality standards. This includes maintaining code quality and collaborating with stakeholders to understand and implement project requirements
• Work closely with various departments, including product management and design, to ensure cohesive and successful project delivery. Communicate effectively and collaborate across teams to achieve common goals, Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.
• 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.

Do you have experience in Systems engineering?, Do you have a Master’s degree?, * 4+ years of professional, hands-on software development experience

• Strong experience in architecting and designing large-scale, complex systems
• Proficient coding skills in C#, Golang, Java or similar languages, capable of producing high-performance, production-quality code
• Experience with a wide range of technologies, including SQL and NoSQL databases, Kafka, Spark, Airflow, or their equivalents
• Proficient in using cloud computing tools throughout the software development lifecycle, with deep expertise in DevOps, observability, telemetry, and test automation
• Skilled in collaborating across engineering teams and other functions to build alignment, drive decision-making, and communicate transparently

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the financial technology sector, with a focus on billing, payments, subscription management, and financial reporting
• Proven track record in designing and implementing workflow engines

Education

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience

3.13.1 out of 5 stars Palo Alto, CA 94306 Hybrid work $100,000 - $215,000 a year - Full-time, Pulled from the full job description

• Tuition reimbursement
• Health insurance
• Adoption assistance
• 401(k) 6% Match

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career - and your potential - in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.