Staff Engineer

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

Our Principal Engineer I is a key member of the engineering staff working with the organization to provide a friction-less 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 Principal Engineer I, you will:

• Design and implement enterprise data governance solutions

• Design and implement data quality solutions

• Design and implement solutions to manage data products, data contracts and data dictionaries

• Design and implement data lineage solutions

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

• Responsible for technical aspects of a project at the team level

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

• Spearhead new feature use (innovate within existing tooling)

• Spearhead new software acquisition and use (innovate with new tooling)

• Leverage automation to remove redundant error prone tasks to improve the quality of the solution

• 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

• Mentor other engineers

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

Qualifications

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

• Experience with programming languages like Java, Python, .NET, SQL, and NoSQL databases,

• Experience with version control such as GIT

• Experience with Big Data technologies such as HBase, Hive, Kafka, Graph DB and Cassandra

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

• Experience with container orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and various Azure tools and services

• Familiar with Microsoft. Net tools and technologies specifically in: ASP.NET (MVC and Web API), WCF Web Services

• Experience with relational and non-relational database technologies (SQL, Oracle, COSMOS, NoSQL etc.)

• Experience with Load test tooling (Gatling or equivalent)

• Experience with Spring Boot Framework and other Spring technologies

• Experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Thousand Eyes, Influx, Grafana or equivalents

• Proven understanding of microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs and GraphQL

• Experience architecting and designing new and current systems

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

• Understanding and experience working with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Gradle, Artifactory, Microsoft Azure DevOps

• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code

• Advanced shell scripting skills

• Advanced understanding of monitoring concepts and tooling

• Strong problem-solving ability

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment

• Experience with microservices oriented architecture and RESTful webservices

• Experience in the complete software development life cycle

• Experience specifically with React (Clean Architecture) or Angular

•  Experience with GIT

• Experience with version control concepts including branching, merging, and conflict resolution

• Experience with API developm