Staff Engineer

Geico Insurance•Seattle, WA

39d•$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. Qualifications Our Staff Engineer is a lead member of the "Customer Success - Solution Architecture" team working across the organization to provide a 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.

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 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 leveraging PowerShell scripting
Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal
Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
Experience in Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, including the Azure platform, and its native services
Experience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth
Experience in Azure Network (Subscription, Security zoning, etc.)
In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
Strong problem-solving ability
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)
Soft skills: Excellent communication, full-ownership of issues, wear multiple-hats when necessary.
6+ years of professional software development experience
4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
3+ years of experience with architecture and design
3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

Responsibilities

Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams
Own complete solution across its entire life cycle
Have full-ownership for product development. customer-centric solution.
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, and performance of the solutions
Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
Utilize programming languages like .NET, Python, 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

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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