GEICO-posted about 1 month ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Chevy Chase, MD

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. About the Team Join the Claims Platform Engineering - Communications team and revolutionize how insurance claims communications work. We build the multi-channel communications infrastructure (letters, emails, texts, fax) that connects adjusters with customers, enabling seamless interactions throughout the claims journey. Strategic Projects Examples Next-Gen Communications Rules Engine: Build a sophisticated low-code/no-code platform enabling business users to design automated communication workflows. Tackle challenges in event-driven architecture, rule evaluation, workflow orchestration, and intuitive UI design for complex logic. Dynamic Letter Generation Platform: An intelligent document generation system producing personalized, compliant correspondence at scale. Gen AI-Powered Communications: Leverage generative AI to create personalized user communications including text messaging, email, and letter generation, ensuring tone, compliance, and customer experience excellence. Why This Role Build cloud-native systems with modern technologies (Java 21, Spring Boot 3.x, Kafka, Temporal) Direct impact on millions of customers and thousands of adjusters daily Shape architecture and engineering practices for strategic platforms Work on complex, interesting problems spanning distributed systems, orchestration, and integration Collaborate across Product, UX, and business stakeholders If you're passionate about building impactful systems that transform customer and employee experiences, let's talk. Job Title: Senior Engineer We are seeking an experienced Senior Java Engineer with deep expertise in Java (preferably Java 21), extensive experience building scalable, cloud-native applications using Spring Boot 3.x, and a passion for leveraging modern AI coding assistants. This role requires a strong product mindset, focusing on delivering customer value through close collaboration with cross-functional partners. Experience with modern full stack web development is preferable.

  • Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable Java applications using Spring Boot 3.4.x
  • Architect cloud-native solutions with best practices for distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and observability
  • Make informed tradeoffs between technical excellence and time-to-market
  • Integrate observability (metrics, distributed tracing, structured logging, monitoring) into applications
  • Optimize application performance, memory usage, and reliability
  • Implement automated testing, deployment, and rollback strategies for safe, frequent releases
  • Build runbooks, participate in on-call rotations, and lead post-incident reviews
  • Collaborate with Product, UX/Design, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to deliver robust RESTful APIs and microservices
  • Participate actively in Agile Scrum processes with the product team
  • Work with DevOps/Platform teams to improve developer experience and CI/CD pipelines
  • Understand customer problems and business outcomes, not just implementation details
  • Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and establish engineering best practices
  • Leverage AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) to accelerate development
  • Contribute to architecture evolution with focus on modern Java, cloud technologies, and observability
  • Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years Java development experience (Java 11+ required, Java 21 preferred)
  • Expert knowledge of Spring Boot (3.x preferred), Spring Cloud, and related frameworks
  • Proven experience with cloud-native applications (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
  • Experience with observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Micrometer, Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines
  • Proficiency using AI coding assistants in daily workflows
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals (design, testing, version control)
  • Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
  • Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and deliver customer-facing features
  • Modern UI development for web applications
  • Reactive programming, asynchronous processing, and Java concurrency features
  • Deep familiarity with distributed tracing, log aggregation, and alerting
  • Security best practices for cloud applications
  • Open-source contributions or technical community involvement
  • Team mentorship or leadership experience
  • A/B testing, feature flags, and data-driven product development
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
  • Experience in fast-paced, customer-focused product organizations
  • Product analytics tools and data-driven technical decisions
  • 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.
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