Sr. Staff Software Engineer

GEICO • Palo Alto, CA

47d • $130,000 - $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. About GEICO Policy Core Engineering We're building the future of insurance technology—API-first, AI-powered, and engineered for scale. At GEICO, the Policy Core Engineering teams are on a mission to redefine how insurance policies are built, managed, and evolved. We're designing world-class services and frameworks that are modular, resilient, and ready to power intelligent automation across the enterprise. Position Description Our Senior Staff Engineer leads the architecture and design of the systems that power our policy platform and 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 modernizing our servicing organization, including large scale modernization, working on system and data migration. We’re looking for engineers with deep technical breadth—from distributed systems and cloud-native architectures to data pipelines and service mesh patterns. If you're passionate about working with top tier engineering teams and building systems that empower teams and delight customers, we’d love to talk.

Requirements

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
• Experience leading and building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
• Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using graphQL and/or gRPC, along with event streaming platforms such as Kafka
• Deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures.
• Strong understanding of programming language development and developer experience in relation to Domain Specific Languages (DSLs)
• 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 Java and/or Kotlin, along with at least one other modern typed language such as Rust, Golang, or C#.
• You fearlessly refactor and iterate when presented with new and previously unknown information.
• Deep knowledge of ETL, SQL, bitemporal data modeling, and temporal databases.
• Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development, with a strong focus on SAAS products / platforms.
• Strong understanding of data observability, traceability, and multi-faceted testing
• Proven experience designing and delivering highly resilient event-driven and messaging-based solutions at scale with minimal latency.
• 15+ years of experience in full-stack web development (C#/Java/Golang), with expertise in client-side and server-side frameworks.
• 8+ years of experience working with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and private cloud technologies (OpenStack).
• 6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent education or work experience

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
• Collaborate across teams and the tech organization to solve our toughest problems
• Deliver high-scale and high-quality data architecture, especially legacy-to-modern platform transitions.
• Deliver High-Quality services and software for a variety of domains
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Utilize your expertise in designing, developing, and deploying new and novel frameworks and services for internal distribution and consumption.
• Utilize your expertise in designing and developing API’s and microservices using graphQL, gRPC, and modern languages / tooling.
• Deploy applications in a hybrid cloud environment utilizing Kubernetes, various data stores, and a variety of cloud native tools and 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

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: Mid Level