Staff Engineer - JAVA (HYBRID)

GEICO•Seattle, WA

20h•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. As a Staff Engineer, you will focus on a few key areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams. You will own the complete solution across its entire life cycle. You will design and implement messaging and UI applications using the Java platform and Open Source frameworks. You will collaborate with the engineering team to define the overall system architecture, ensuring scalability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization. You will act as a technical and thought leader for domains like Messaging, GraphQL API, or data streaming. You will influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications. You will be accountable for the quality, usability & performance of the solutions. You will implement monitoring and logging solutions to track system performance and troubleshoot issues. You will lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization. You will utilize programming languages like Java, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services. You will mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential. You will consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.

Requirements

Fluency and Specialization with modern languages such as Java, including object-oriented design.
Experience in building products using micro-services oriented architecture and extensible APIs.
Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
Experience containerizing applications using Docker or Kubernetes.
Experience designing and implementing performance testing with tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner.
Familiarity with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.
Experience in leveraging Powershell scripting.
Understanding of Monitoring Portals such as Splunk or Application Insights.
Understanding of Security Protocols & Products: Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth.
Strong familiarity with GraphQL web services.
Experience and passion for documentation and mentoring junior developers.
Understanding of CI/CD tooling like Jenkins, Gradle, and Artifactory.
Strong problem-solving ability.
Hands-on experience with real-time event-steaming platforms such as Apache Kafka.
Familiarity with NoSQL and Graph databases.
Experience writing unit tests using common testing frameworks and actively contributing to code quality.
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).
6+ years of professional software development experience.
3+ years of experience with architecture and design.
3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service.
4+ years of experience in open source frameworks.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.

Nice To Haves

AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) preferred for containerizing applications.

Responsibilities

Focus on a few key areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams.
Own complete solution across its entire life cycle.
Design and implement messaging and UI applications using the Java platform and Open Source frameworks.
Collaborate with engineering team to define the overall system architecture, ensuring scalability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
Act as a technical and thought leader for domains like Messaging, GraphQL API, or data streaming.
Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications.
Accountable for the quality, usability & performance of the solutions.
Implement monitoring and logging solutions to track system performance and troubleshoot issues.
Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization.
Utilize programming languages like Java, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services.
Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential.
Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.
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.
Workplace flexibility.
GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.