Senior Staff Engineer - Payments Platform (Hybrid)

GEICO • Palo Alto, CA

20h • $120,000 - $260,000 • Hybrid

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 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• Experience with payment systems and financial reporting is highly preferred.

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.

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
• tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare
• 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
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees