Senior Staff Software Engineer - Java - HYBRID

GEICO•Richardson, TX

4d•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. Position Description: We are developing a cutting-edge, AI-powered marketing automation platform exclusively for internal use, aimed at transforming how we engage with our customers. This platform will empower our marketing teams with smarter, more personalized, and efficient tools, allowing them to create seamless, data-driven customer journeys across multiple channels. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will play a critical role in the architecture, design, and development of this platform, bringing advanced AI and machine learning techniques into the heart of our marketing processes. Our Senior Staff Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working on Web solutions ensuring that we provide friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between, and a proven background in Java, Microservices, Containers (Kubernetes), and design, implementing, and maintaining front-end UIs.

Requirements

Experience with design, develop and deploy machine learning solutions to solve complex problems and integrate them into software systems
Experience building MarTech applications, including implementation solution design
Fluency with Java, Spring Framework, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS, JSON, RESTful Web Services, NodeJS, Cassandra and Event Driven Architectures
Strong Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) platform knowledge
Familiar with Project Management and work item management tools such as Azure DevOps, JIRA
Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
Experience with platform stability and observability including building Grafana dashboards, configuring alerts, and implementing monitoring solutions
Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
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)
Fluency and Specialization with modern languages such as Java, Python including object-oriented design
Experience with Micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
Experience with AI/ML and data driven integration with backend
Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework
Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
Experience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth
Experience with Snowflake data platform including data warehousing, data modeling, and query optimization
Proficiency in Power BI for creating interactive dashboards, reports, and data visualizations
10+ years of professional software development experience within Web frameworks/SDKs/languages
8+ years of experience with architecture and design
4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
3+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
2+ years of experience with AI/ML
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education

Responsibilities

Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems
Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution
Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle
Lead design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
Build and maintain platform observability infrastructure including monitoring dashboards, alerting systems, and incident response procedures
Define, create, and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective
Utilize programming languages like Java, Python, and Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) to perform advanced-level Java application design under minimal direction
Utilizes developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) to perform advanced-level Mobile/Web/UI design, implementation, and maintenance activities under minimal direction
Mentor and coach engineers across multiple teams, providing technical guidance, career development support, and constructive feedback to help them grow into senior technical roles
Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
Design and implement data pipelines and analytics solutions using Snowflake and Power BI to drive marketing insights

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.

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