Staff Software Engineer (Duck Creek/.NET) - Billing Platform *HYBRID*

About the Team

The Billing 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.

What You Will Do

We are seeking a seasoned Duck Creek 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 part in evolving and optimizing our existing platform, with a strong emphasis on improving its scalability, reliability, and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize scalable, resilient distributed systems across teams (primary focus: hands‑on development)
• Implement enterprise solutions using .NET (C#) and related frameworks, contributing directly to codebases
• Maintain and enhance core insurance systems built on Duck Creek
• Develop and improve services using SQL Server, Postgres, REST APIs, microservices
• Apply C# and Golang where most effective; prototype and evaluate new technologies
• Drive adoption and improvement of productivity tooling (VS Code, Cursor, Git Hub Copilot) through direct usage and feedback
• Define and deliver reusable components and architectural patterns (business + technical), writing foundational code
• Engineer solutions leveraging Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and automation frameworks
• Apply best practices for monitoring and debugging with App Insights, Titan, and related tools
• Guide, mentor, and support engineers (~30% focus); share best practices and foster knowledge growth
• Contribute hands‑on to product direction and solution design
• Collaborate actively across the full software lifecycle (requirements through deployment), delivering code and processes
• Lead and participate in technical design and code reviews; help enforce standards with code contributions

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional, hands‑on software development experience
• Expert‑level .NET ecosystem experience (C#, ASP.NET, Web API, REST, SQL Server, Visual Studio/VS Code)
• Deep Duck Creek product architecture and hands‑on implementation experience
• Proven expertise in microservices and extensible API design, with significant coding contributions
• Extensive experience with XML‑based data/file systems (XPath, XSD, XML serialization in .NET, etc.)
• Strong distributed systems architecture and scaling capabilities
• Hands‑on leadership with Azure Cloud and Dev Ops pipelines
• Practical experience with monitoring tools (App Insights, Splunk, Grafana/Prometheus)
• Security best practices and protocols applied in real‑world solutions
• Advanced SQL and Postgres coding and optimization skills
• Strong CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms) demonstrated in engineering output
• Experience driving continuous delivery / modern deployment practices through implementation
• Lifecycle tooling expertise (planning, source, build, deploy, operations) with practical involvement
• Exceptional problem solving, technical influence, and mentoring skills
• Outstanding technical communication and stakeholder management

Preferred Qualifications

• Git Hub Copilot / AI‑assisted development hands‑on experience
• Implementation experience with event‑driven and messaging platforms (Azure Service Bus, Kafka, etc.)
• Extensive hands‑on XML solutions and integrations

Education

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

Location

• Palo Alto, CA (Hybrid)
• Dallas, TX (Hybrid)
• Chevy Chase, MD (Hybrid)

Annual Salary

$ - $

Equal Employment Opportunity

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair…