Job Description

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

We seek a highly motivated Engineering Director to build and scale an AI-first, agentic-first GEICO Enterprise Platform that measurably improves associate experience while meeting enterprise standards for availability, reliability, performance, and compliance.

Location: Preference is for the candidate to be based in Seattle or Dallas.

Reports To: Head of Enterprise Experience Engineering Technology

As a successful Geico Enterprise Engineering Director, you will:-

• Deliver measurable business impact by shipping prioritized enterprise experience capabilities on schedule, with clear adoption and outcome metrics.
• Provide a scalable, performant platform (services + onboarding) that enables teams to integrate quickly, with standardized patterns and reusable components.
• Validate AI/agentic solutions through rapid POCs and production pilots, documenting learnings, risks, and recommended standards for enterprise reuse.
• Modernize and migrate targeted platform components to the public cloud to improve elasticity, cost efficiency, and time-to-scale.
• Define and socialize reference architectures, best practices, and implementation playbooks that raise consistency and delivery velocity across partner teams.
• Improve operational health by increasing automation for common failure modes and reducing repeat incidents through durable engineering fixes.
• Execute predictable delivery via agile planning and transparent reporting of scope, risks, dependencies, and platform scale/performance requirements.
• Raise engineering quality by enforcing code standards, reviews, and performance best practices across the platform.
• Deliver end-to-end observability by instrumenting telemetry, dashboards, and alerting from day one for all critical services.
• Use telemetry and customer-of-IT (associate) signals to make data-driven design tradeoffs and demonstrate improvements over time.

Preferred Experience:

• 3+ years leading and developing high-performing engineering teams, with evidence of delivery and measurable outcomes.
• 7+ years building enterprise software in one or more languages (e.g., Java, C#, C/C++), with strong object-oriented design fundamentals.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sience, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Proven ability to design globally distributed systems (queuing/workflows, load balancing, caching, storage, and service-to-service communication) with reliability and scale in mind.
• Working proficiency in data/query and automation tooling (e.g., T-SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript, PowerShell) to enable self-service, operational excellence, and repeatable delivery.

Annual Salary

$140,000.00 - $300,000.00

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.

The GEICO Pledge:

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.

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.

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.