Staff Engineer (HYBRID)

GEICO•Bethesda, MD

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Our Staff Engineer works with Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply knowledge to solve critical problems. This role will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap modernizing the servicing organization with API first design. The ideal candidate is a self-starter that has deep technical expertise in their domain.

Requirements

Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
Proven expertise in API first engineering approaches, service orchestration, event driven architecture and real-time APIs including federated graphQL and gRPC implementations
Ability to manage schema evolution, versioning and high-performance API driven systems
Proven experience designing and delivering highly-resilient event-driven and messaging based solutions at scale with minimal latency
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 at least one other modern language such as C#, C++, or Python including object-oriented design
Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development
Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Cosmos, Cassandra. Apache Trino etc.
Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
Experience in implementing security protocols across services and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
Collaborate across team members and across the tech organization to solve our toughest problems
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 and developing API’s and microservices using graphQL, gRPC, Java, Python, Kafka, with a deep understanding of API first design
Utilize programming languages like Java, C#, or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases
Deploy applications in a hybrid cloud environment utilizing Kubernetes, various data stores, and a variety of cloud native tools and services
Work on End-to-End solutions that may span front-end through API tiers and Back-End domain 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
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
Personalized development programs
Industry leading training
Certification assistance
Career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels
Employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers