Senior Staff Engineer - Java

GEICO • Palo Alto, CA

2d • $100,000 - $260,000

About The Position

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. Our Senior Staff Engineer works with our Staff and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate is a self-starter that has deep technical expertise in their domain. Position Responsibilities As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will: Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise Collaborate across team members and across the tech organization to solve our toughest problems Deliver High-Quality services and software for a variety of domains Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions Utilize programming languages like Java, C#, or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure/AWS/GCP tools and services Work on End-to-End solutions that may span front-end implementations (Flutter, Agular, React) through API tiers and Back-End domain services. 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, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning

Requirements

• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development, with a strong focus on SAAS products / platforms.
• Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using graphQL, gRPC, Java, Python, Kafka, 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.
• Deep hands-on experience in building complex SAAS systems in large scale business focused systems, with great knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
• 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 Cosmos, Cassandra. Apache Trino etc.
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
• 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
• Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and DevOps Operational Frameworks
• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
• Experience in Azure Network (Subscription, Security zoning, etc.)
• 10+ years full-stack development experience (Java/C#/Python/GO), with expertise in client-side and server-side frameworks.
• 8+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
• Collaborate across team members and across the tech organization to solve our toughest problems
• Deliver High-Quality services and software for a variety of domains
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Utilize programming languages like Java, C#, or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure/AWS/GCP tools and services
• Work on End-to-End solutions that may span front-end implementations (Flutter, Agular, React) through API tiers and Back-End domain services.
• 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, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior