Staff Engineer

GEICO • Palo Alto, CA

3d • $115,000 - $230,000

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. Position Summary We are seeking an exceptional Staff Engineer whose technical leadership will span all product lines and systems across GEICO’s Specialty Lines of Business (LOB)—including Boat, Umbrella, ATV, UTV, Snowmobile, Golf Cart, Motorcycle, and RV. This leader will shape the next-generation architecture for Specialty, guide engineering managers and development teams, and drive operational excellence to support GEICO’s long-term growth. A key initial focus will be the new GEICO Boat product, a high-visibility initiative aimed at making GEICO a top boat insurer in the U.S. and delivering a best-in-class digital experience across quoting, billing, service, and claims. This is a high-impact, cross-organizational role for a systems thinker who wants to influence the entire Specialty ecosystem. What You’ll Do Your leadership will reduce production issues, strengthen operational readiness, and elevate day-to-day engineering quality across all teams. Define and evolve the technical architecture for Specialty LOB systems, ensuring consistency, scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability. Provide strong technical guidance across multiple engineering teams and engineering managers. Identify systemic gaps, propose modernization or simplification strategies, and drive code and architectural reuse across products. Establish engineering standards, patterns, documentation expectations, and best practices used LOB-wide. Set strategic direction for Operational Excellence Passionate about clean code, automated testing, and maintainable systems Mentor engineers and elevate technical excellence Who You Are A Strategic Systems Architect – you are experienced in architecting distributed systems, service-oriented platforms, or large-scale insurance/financial systems. A Hands-On Technical Leader – you are able to dive deep into code, design reviews, and production issues while guiding long-term architectural vision. You are effective at influencing without authority and aligning diverse teams and stakeholders. A Multiplier Across Teams – you are a strong mentor for engineers and engineering managers. You are adept at identifying gaps, proposing solutions, and scaling best practices. You can communicate complex technical concepts with clarity and precision.

Requirements

• Fluency and Specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design
• Experience in building products using micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
• Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework
• Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal
• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• 4+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Responsibilities

• Reduce production issues, strengthen operational readiness, and elevate day-to-day engineering quality across all teams.
• Define and evolve the technical architecture for Specialty LOB systems, ensuring consistency, scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Provide strong technical guidance across multiple engineering teams and engineering managers.
• Identify systemic gaps, propose modernization or simplification strategies, and drive code and architectural reuse across products.
• Establish engineering standards, patterns, documentation expectations, and best practices used LOB-wide.
• Set strategic direction for Operational Excellence
• Passionate about clean code, automated testing, and maintainable systems
• Mentor engineers and elevate technical excellence

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