Geico - San Francisco, CA
posted 2 months ago
GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Manager with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. In this role, you will build and manage a team of engineers focused on delivering enterprise-wide products that operate in a highly performant and efficient manner. You will play a crucial role in driving our insurance business transformation as we redefine experiences for our customers. As an engineering leader, you will work closely with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions, and leverage them to solve critical operational problems. Your leadership will be instrumental in executing a technical roadmap that focuses on increasing product delivery velocity and unlocking new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise to improve application performance, capacity benchmarking, and enhance availability and reliability. You will be responsible for designing and evolving cloud infrastructure and architecture. Your role will involve collaborating with the Director to manage project dependencies, negotiate delivery dates, and ensure the timely completion of projects. You will also identify and address project risks, presenting implementable solutions or alternatives, and understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas. In addition, you will initiate and support performance evaluations of team members, craft fully compliant quality documentation, and collaborate with product teams to understand their pain points around performance and resiliency. You will be expected to cultivate a culture of motivation and achievement, building and maintaining trustful relationships with team members. Addressing technical or analytical skill gaps and challenging team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies will be key aspects of your leadership. You will also be responsible for managing the team budget and reporting on results achieved at regular intervals, all while maintaining a mindset of efficiency and utilization improvements.