Senior Engineer – Full Stack Web Applications

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Position Summary 

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 

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Senior full stack Engineer within our Capacity and workload management organization. This role is within the capacity management platform team, and its goal is to build a full stack platform to address the infrastructure demand, capacity and quota needs of a hybrid cloud environment. The platform would be built using open-source technologies and would be scalable to handle Geico’s growing infrastructure needs. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between and is willing to contribute across the stack depending on the needs of the team. We would also prefer the candidate to have good insights into capacity management within Hybrid cloud. 

Position Responsibilities 

As a Senior Engineer, you will: 

• Contribute towards the development of intuitive and responsive UI’s using ReactJS, Typescript and BootstrapJS within a Django framework ensuring seamless integration with backend microservices. 

• Design and Implement loosely coupled microservices that are API-driven using Python,Django,and Golang, as well as event-driven microservices using Kafka and Apache spark for backend data processing. 

• Work closely with engineering leads, product owners and other engineers to gather requirements, break them down into actionable tasks, and build a well-defined backlog that captures the implementation details and timelines. 

• Contribute to all layers of the technology stack, including UX and UI development, backend service implementation and DevOps tasks based on team’s need and priorities. 

• Contribute towards the development of Microfrontends backed by microservices and work with other teams to integrate them with their single page web applications. 

• Ensure seamless integration of backend microservices with front-end applications leveraging both RESTful API’s and gRPC for efficient communication between the layers. 

• Provide technical and thought leadership across multiple areas, focusing on the design and implementation of UI and backend API integration. 

• Take ownership of delivering high quality performant and maintainable code with a focus on meeting deadlines and aligning with the overall architectu