Sr. Staff Engineer, Workflow Platform [REMOTE]

Position Summary  

The Core Insurance Platform (CIP) organization is seeking an experienced Sr. Staff Engineer Manager 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. You will work closely and collaboratively with both technical and business teams to develop the technical foundations that unlock leaps in agility and functionality for the GEICO stack.  

Position Description  

Our Sr. Staff Engineer is a lead member of the engineering staff working across 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 complex, distributed back-end systems and all points in between.  

Position Responsibilities  

As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you will:  

• Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams  

• Own complete solution across its entire life cycle 

• Envision, design and deliver platform capabilities that enrich the GEICO tech ecosystem for a broad variety of teams 

• Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications 

• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions 

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

• Utilize programming languages like Java, .NET, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services 

• Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential 

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

Qualifications 

• Fluency and Specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, .NET, Go or Rust including object-oriented design 

• Experience in building products using microservices architecture and extensible GraphQL and gRPC APIs 

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

• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code 

• Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework 

• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments 

• Experience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth 

• Experience with commercial cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP) 

• In-depth knowle