Sr Staff Engineer - (GO, Java, Microservices/ File Exchange Exp) - HYBRID

Geico Insurance • Chevy Chase, MD

82d • $110,000 - $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. GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Engineer to join our PaaS organization within the File Exchange team. In this role, you will build & scale next generation file transfer and the file sharing platform to cater file sharing services within GEICO & between GEICO & its trusted external partners. This role is integral in helping drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine experiences for our customers. The Senior Staff Engineer works within a team of Staff and Senior Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as 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.

Requirements

• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and development of multi-tier distributed systems; preferably that manages millions of file transfers and file sharing capabilities among internal and external partners.
• Fluent in at least two OOP languages such as Java, Go, Python, C++, etc.
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• 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, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI/SonarQube and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible will be big plus
• Knowledge of Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus
• Familiarity with other messaging and event solutions like Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hub is a plus

Nice To Haves

• 6+ years of experience with open-source frameworks is desired
• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure and DevOps practices

Responsibilities

• Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to design, build, and productionize an enterprise application
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Influence and educate leadership at all levels
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning
• Collaborate with application teams and business partners to standardize file sharing practices. Partner with them to scale product from 0 to 1

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
• Industry: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees