Staff Software Engineering Manager

GEICO

Confirmed live yesterday High trust
Remote Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Palo Alto, CADallas, TXBethesda, MDSeattle, WA
Salary
$120,000–$300,000 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

Market check

Salary context

Competitive pay

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $212k
This role $210k
$98k most similar roles pay here $322k

This role pays less than 53% of similar roles. Most pay $185,000–$238,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $210k versus about $212k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About GEICO

GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is one of the largest auto insurers in the United States, offering affordable auto, home, renters, and other personal insurance products. Industry: Insurance

GEICO currently has 68 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $112,500–$230,000 across 68 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at GEICO

At a glance

TL;DR · Staff Software Engineering Manager

Manager, Staff Software Engineering - HYBRID joins the Commercial Insurance Engineering team to lead a group of engineers in building high-performance applications and platforms featuring generative AI capabilities. This leader will manage a team of at least five engineers, overseeing the execution of a technical roadmap designed to increase product delivery velocity and unlock new engineering capabilities. The role involves innovating new solutions, enhancing existing systems, and solving critical operational problems within the commercial insurance domain. Key responsibilities include improving application performance, enhancing user experience, and driving efficient test automation. Required skills include proficiency in Python or Java, knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, and experience with GitHub and Azure DevOps. The candidate must possess a strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing for large-scale, mission-critical environments.

What does a Software Engineering Manager earn in California?

Median $281300 from 35 postings across 13 companies.

See salary data

What you'll do

  • Build and manage a team of engineers focused on delivering high-performance commercial insurance products.
  • Develop and manage technical roadmaps to increase product delivery velocity and unlock new capabilities.
  • Integrate generative AI capabilities into the development of applications and platforms.
  • Improve application performance, user experience, and test automation for existing systems.
  • Drive the transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization focused on engineering excellence.
  • Solve critical operational problems by creating or enhancing innovative engineering solutions.
  • Manage project workflows using tools like GitHub and Azure DevOps in a cloud environment.
  • Communicate technical roadmaps and performance metrics to both technical and non-technical senior leadership.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience including SDLC best practices.
  • 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment.
  • 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment.
  • 2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing.
  • Proven management experience leading teams of 5+ engineers.
  • Strong Cloud platform knowledge (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
  • Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python or Java (preferred).

More like this

Similar roles

Staff Software Engineer

GEICO

Palo Alto, CA +3 31 days ago $110,000$230,000
Python C# Java TypeScript SQL NoSQL Docker Kubernetes Azure AWS GCP REST APIs micro-services HTML-5 JavaScript JSON XML SAML OAuth Active Directory DevOps Generative AI LLM
8+ yrs exp Hybrid

Senior Manager, Staff SW Engineering, Platform Engineering

GEICO

Remote (Bethesda, MD) 36 days ago $130,000$300,000
Infrastructure as Code Terraform Python Go TypeScript Java C# .NET CI/CD Git Artifactory Jenkins SonarQube Microservices SaaS PaaS IaaS SFTP HTTPS PGP NYDFS PCI
5+ yrs exp Remote Hybrid

Software Engineering Manager

Cigna

Newton, MA 11 days ago $146,806$167,100
Python Elasticsearch React Machine Learning PostgreSQL Graph Databases REST API GraphQL Hadoop ETL CI/CD Agile XML RDBMS
5+ yrs exp Hybrid

Leader, Software Engineering

Cisco

Remote (Richardson, TX) 11 days ago $177,600$257,400
LLM OpenAI Azure Foundry AWS Bedrock Cloud Platform Engineering SRE FedRAMP PCI-DSS Agile Model Routing Observability
10+ yrs exp Remote Hybrid

Manager, Software Engineering

Circle

Remote (San Francisco, CA) +24 28 days ago $195,000$257,500
Go Java JavaScript APIs Agile Software Engineering
7+ yrs exp Remote