Senior Staff Engineer - Payments Platform (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.

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.

Summary: 

Our Sr Staff Engineers work with engineers and engineering leaders to innovate and build new systems, improve and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply their knowledge to solve critical problems. As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you’ll lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap for modernization of our Payments Platform. You will work across the team to build scalable, resilient, and modern systems while mentoring engineers and establishing high standard for technical decision making and team performance.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture, development and delivery of capabilities on our Payments Platform, meeting goals for security, resilience, compliance and correctness
• Be a role model in leveraging AI to increase velocity, while raising the bar on engineering and operational excellence
• Drive improvements to practices and culture for a high performing engineering organization
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies, evaluating their potential impact on the payments engineering domain and making recommendations for adoption.
• Triage and resolve service disruptions and build industry standard mechanism for prevention and self-healing.
• Influence and educate technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.

Qualifications:

• Proven track record of designing and delivering payments, financial or highly regulated systems
• Understanding of data privacy, compliance, and governance practices in the payments industry
• Deep hands-on experience with distributed systems and cloud-native architecture
• Strong analytical skills, a product mindset and ownership to identify problems, understand motivations, create practical solutions, and drive progress.  
• Strong problem-solving, leadership and collaboration skills

Experience:

• 12+ years in software development with Go or Java frameworks.
• 10+ years in architecture and system design with a data-intensive applications.
• 8+ years with cloud-native systems, CNCF frameworks and distributed data stores
• Experience with payment systems and financial reporting is highly preferred.

Education:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

 

Annual Salary

$120,000.00 - $260,000.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

 

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

 

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career