Staff Software Engineer - (Java, Golang, Microservices) - *HYBRID*

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.

GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications.  You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement. 

Position Description 

Our Staff Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide frictionless experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between. 

Position Responsibilities 

As a Staff Engineer, you will: 

• Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems 

• Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution 

• Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle 

• Lead in design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization 

• Define, create, and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective 

• Utilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services 

• Mentor other engineers 

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams 

Qualifications 

• Advanced programming experience with high performance full distributed systems 

• Proven understanding of microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs 

• Experience architecting and designing new and current systems 

• Advanced understanding of DevOps concepts including Azure DevOps framework and tools 

• Advanced PowerShell scripting skills 

• Advanced understanding of monitoring concepts and tooling 

• Advanced understanding of security protocols and products 

• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code 

• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms 

• Strong problem-solving ability 

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment 

• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, sourc