Staff Engineer- Java MarTech

GEICO is seeking an experienced a Staff Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications from the ground up.  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 developing a cutting-edge, AI-powered marketing automation platform exclusively for internal use, aimed at transforming how we engage with our customers. This platform will empower our marketing teams with smarter, more personalized, and efficient tools, allowing them to create seamless, data-driven customer journeys across multiple channels. As a Staff Engineer, you will play a critical role in the architecture, design, and development of this platform, bringing advanced AI and machine learning techniques into the heart of our marketing processes.

Our Staff Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working on Web solutions ensuring that we 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, and a proven background in JavaScript, ReactJS, Java, Microservices, Containers (Kubernetes), and designing, implementing, and maintaining front-end UIs.  

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 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 JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C#, Python, and Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) to perform advanced-level Java application design under minimal direction  

• Utilizes developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) to perform advanced-level Mobile/Web/UI design, implementation, and maintenance activities under minimal direction   

• ​Mentor other engineers    

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