• Direct the team’s technical strategy and guide key architectural decisions • Lead product development cycles from prototype to launch • Own all of the code the team ships and champion engineering excellence • Mentor and grow a team of engineers, fostering professional development • Foster team culture valuing experimentation, collaboration, and innovation • Build strong cross-functional relationships and facilitate collaboration with non-technical colleagues • Shape team processes to support engineers on short and long term projects • Lead the engineering team in building AI-powered features and consumer-facing products • Build systems and AI integrations that are sustainable and easily deployable

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. Position Summary GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Engineering Manager with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. You will build and manage a team of engineers with a deep focus on delivering enterprise-wide product to operate in a highly performant and efficient way. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine experiences for our customers.   Position Description    Our Senior Staff Engineering Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions and leverage them to solve critical operational problems. A Senior Manager will lead defining the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities in our core insurance platform. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise to drive system design, architecture and implementation, improve application performance, capacity benchmarking, improve availability and reliability, design and evolve cloud infrastructure and services.    Position Responsibilities    As a Senior Staff Engineering Manager, you will:    ​Work with your 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 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 ​Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas    ​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  Collaborate with the product teams to understand their pain points around performance, resiliency and formulate strategies to address recurring issues in a sustainable way     ​Cultivate a culture of motivation and achievement, building and maintaining trustful relationships with team members  ​Address technical or analytical skill gaps, challenging team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies  Contribute as a hands-on technical leader to the architecture, system design and implementation of core services including API and microservice development, storage/persistence implementations, messaging and a variety of other technical areas. Constantly up to date with current software engineering best practices  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 persuasive arguments to drive projects for process improvement, cost leadership, and customer experience enhancement  Manage up to leadership and provide feedback when necessary  Mindset of efficiency and utilization improvements  Contribute significantly to the team planning process, including surfacing team’s proposals  Ability to construct roadmaps, manage and translate projects into deliverables, adjust priorities, and be able to understand and adjust the team capacity as needed  Qualifications    - Fluency with C#/.NET , HTML-5, JavaScript/TypeScript, XML, JSON, RESTful Web Services, and Event Driven Architectures - Fluency with at least one additional modern language such as Java, Python or GO and experience with open-source software is a big plus - Ability to be hands-on developing software at least 10-20% of the time - Strong knowledge of system design, architecture and full lifecycle of design, implementation and productionizing of core Services and APIs. - Passionate for all things testing (unit, integration, functional, performance, etc.)   - Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts   - Implemented RESTful and GRPC services, event driven architecture, micro-services, messaging technology and optimal storage/persistence approaches. - Knowledge of cloud computing technologies (SaaS/PaaS/IaaS, etc.)   - Knowledge of Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.)     - Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments   - Understanding of SQL, and NoSQL databases, including stateful services management and storage  - Ability to construct, interpret, and apply metrics for decision-making, prioritization, and progress visibility  - Strong site reliability engineering principles  - Strong passion for technology and engineering excellence  - Exceptional leadership and communication skills  - Effective negotiation abilities  ​ - Strategic thinking and the ability to drive projects for positive change  Experience    6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including software development lifecycle 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   Education    ​​Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent experience   #LI-FA1 #Dice Annual Salary $140,000.00 - $300,000.00The 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.

• Provide direct technical supervision of one or more teams responsible for developing HIS products, including Developers and Quality Assurance. • Assist Technical Product Owner for a team working both to deliver HIS grouping content under the existing technology stack while simultaneously architecting and developing the replacement technology stack in a methodical manner. • Set technical direction and establish, prioritize and work with the development team to define and update the team’s backlog in concert with Tech Leads. • Mentor development staff with duties such as analysis, software design, prototyping, coding, debugging, test case creation, test case automation, test case execution, documentation, support, infrastructure maintenance. • Participate on cross-functional teams, coordinate and communicate with Product Owners, Business Leaders, Developers and others. • Champion Agile principles throughout the organization. • Create an atmosphere of innovation and enable professional growth. • Conflict / Change management ownership to ensure productivity.

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: The Guest Displays & Platforms team owns the main product details page (PDP) along with Pricing & Availability across the booking flow for all products (Homes, Hotels, Experiences, Services). Our work is at the heart of the Airbnb guest UX, so we work very closely with many teams, including Search, Checkout, Listings, Users, Host Settings, Payments, Tax, Cities, and Trust to create a seamless and consistent guest experience. The Difference You Will Make: You will lead the Pricing & Availability Platform team, responsible for the engine that computes trip-level pricing, availability and related merchandising across the booking flow. The team specializes in low-latency, high-throughput systems powering Airbnb’s highest-traffic surfaces. The team is primarily backend focused, but produces outputs shown across many surfaces and is some of the most critical and high impact details affecting the guest experience and success of Airbnb’s core lines of business. You will build a strong and diverse team capable of turning ambitious product visions into polished reality, nurturing a culture of technical quality and strengthening our systems along the way. A Typical Day: - Work with product, design and other stakeholders to determine and document requirements - Work with engineers to plan, sequence, make tradeoffs and deliver new features and capabilities - Understand the state of our systems to determine where investment may be needed to maintain system health and product quality - Establish and communicate overarching vision and high-level guidance for pricing architecture and integration by downstream teams - Handle resourcing and communicate deliverable plans - Hire and coach exceptional engineering talent Your Expertise: - 5+ years of engineering management experience, with 10+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast paced tech environment - Deep expertise with backend systems and complex data modeling in large-scale consumer applications - Excellent communication and presentation skills tuned for both technical or non-technical audiences - End-to-end, product-oriented mentality that transcends team boundaries and helps find globally optimal solutions - Good judgment in making tradeoffs to balance short-term business needs with long-term technical quality - Strong collaboration skills, able to work effectively and find common ground with a wide range of teams who may have conflicting goals and priorities Your Location: This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list. If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from. Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging: Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application. How We'll Take Care of You: Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, benefits, and Employee Travel Credits. Pay Range $204,000—$255,000 USD