A Staff Software Engineer works with GEICO engineering teams to innovate and build new systems improve and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the development of a data exchange platform for GEICOs Insurance Marketplace which enables scalable and extensible integrations with internal and external partners. You will lead the strategy and of the technical roadmap of this foundational subarea of one of GEICOs fastest growing businesses. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical expertise ranging from frontend UIs through backend largescale distributed systems.
Position Responsibilities:
As a Staff Engineer you will:
Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams
Collaborate across team members and across the tech organization to solve our toughest problems
Develop and execute technical software development strategy
Lead the highlevel and lowlevel designs of a foundational area of the insurance marketplace particularly around data exchange with internal and external partners and be responsible and accountable for the quality reliability and performance of the solutions
Write and test product or system development code
Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g. style guidelines checking code in accuracy testability and efficiency).
Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware network or service operations and quality.
Be a role model and mentor helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and knowhow 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
Qualifications:
- Fluency and specialization with at least two modern OOP languages such as C# Java C or Python including objectoriented design
- Indepth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
- Extensive experience in leading and building fullstack application and service development with a strong focus on SAAS products / platforms.
- Proven experience designing and delivering highlyresilient eventdriven and messaging based solutions at scale with minimal latency.
- Exemplary ability to design perform experiments and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
- Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
- Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management source code building deployment test automation and related tools operations realtime communication)
- Experience in existing Operational tools available on platforms such as Azure AWS or GCP
- Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
- Ability to excel in a fastpaced startuplike environment
- Experience in opensource tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible will be big plus
Experience
- 6 years of professional software engineering experience
- 3 years of experience with architecture and design
- 2 years of experience with AWS GCP Azure or another cloud service
- 2 years of experience in opensource frameworks
Education
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or equivalent education or work experience
Annual Salary
$115000.00 $230000.00
The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include but are not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the role the selected candidates work experience education and training the work location as well as market and business considerations.
At this time GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
Benefits:
As an Associate youll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and wellbeing including:
- Premier Medical Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
- Paid Vacation Sick and Parental Leave
- 401(k) Plan
- Tuition Assistance
- Paid Training and Licensures
*Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.
**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race color religious creed national origin ancestry age gender pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity marital status familial status disability or genetic information in compliance with applicable federal state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.
Required Experience:
Staff IC