Staff Engineer - Technology Expert

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 Responsibilities 
 
As a Staff Engineer, you will: 

• Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams
• Collaborate across team members and across the tech organization to solve our toughest problems
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy
• Lead the high-level and low-level designs of a foundational area of the insurance marketplace – particularly around data exchange with internal and external partners -- and be responsible and accountable for the quality, reliability and performance of the solutions
• Write and test product or system development code
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
• Influence and educate executives
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning 
   

Qualifications 
 

• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production 

• Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application.  

• Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using graphQL, gRPC,  Java, Python,  with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures.  

• Proven experience designing and delivering highly-resilient event-driven and messaging based solutions at scale with minimal latency.  

• Fluency and Specialization with at least two modern OOP languages such as Java, C#, C++, or Python including object-oriented design 

• Familiarity and comfort with front-end technologies as well as back-end, including technologies like React, Flutter, Angular, Html, Javascript.  

• Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like PostGres, Cassandra etc.  

• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms 

• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) 

• Experience with Micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs 

• Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems 

• Experience in implementing security protocols across services and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth 
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments 

 
 

Experience 

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

 

Annual Salary

$110,000.00 - $230,000.00

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 candid