Staff Engineer - Technology Expert

Position Responsibilities 
 
As a Staff Engineer, you will: 

• Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams
• Collaborate across team members and across the tech organization to solve our toughest problems
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy
• Lead the high-level and low-level designs of a foundational area of the insurance marketplace – particularly around data exchange with internal and external partners -- and be responsible and accountable for the quality, reliability and performance of the solutions
• Write and test product or system development code
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
• Influence and educate executives
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning 
   

Qualifications 
 

• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production 

• Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application.  

• Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using graphQL, gRPC,  Java, Python,  with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures.  

• Proven experience designing and delivering highly-resilient event-driven and messaging based solutions at scale with minimal latency.  

• Fluency and Specialization with at least two modern OOP languages such as Java, C#, C++, or Python including object-oriented design 

• Familiarity and comfort with front-end technologies as well as back-end, including technologies like React, Flutter, Angular, Html, Javascript.  

• Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like PostGres, Cassandra etc.  

• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms 

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

• Experience with Micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs 

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

• Experience in implementing security protocols across services and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth 
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments 

Experience 

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

Annual Salary

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.

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 where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind.  You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.