Staff Engineer

GEICO • Seattle, WA

5d • Remote

About The Position

GEICO is seeking an experienced full stack Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
• Advance knowledge of at least one OOP languages such as Java, .NET, Go, Python, C++, etc
• Advance knowledge of web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript is preferred
• Understand open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
• Strong understanding of web service integration (REST/SOAP) and enterprise middleware integration tiers
• Ability to articulate channel dataflow and process flow including email, messaging, chat, mobile Push and SDK's
• Excellent communication skills – needs to be able to lead projects from the front and interact with clients and sponsors on a regular basis
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
• Experience with Windows Server Administration and Windows Event Log
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
• Willing to work on both fast development and operation 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)
• Knowledge in big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kappa) and K8 cluster
• 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)
• Knowledge in ML and AI technologies
• Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus
• Experience 6+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration, governance, infrastructure management, installation, and maintenance of the hardware, software, and network systems
• 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 hybrid data center
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience in architecting, designing, building automation, workflows, custom objects/apps, declarative functionality, triggers, migration tools in BMC Helix platform and transition such platform to Open Source is a big plus.
• Experience building and configuring flows, and process builders
• Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a plus

Responsibilities

• Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Platform Engineering domain
• Be accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• 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
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning
• Willing to take on-call and operation support

Benefits

• 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match
• Performance and recognition-based incentives
• Tuition assistance
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior