Senior Staff Engineer (Remote)

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. Thats why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company Great Culture Great Rewards and Great Careers.

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Engineer with a passion for building high-performance low maintenance zero-downtime platforms and applications from the ground up. 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.

Position Description:

We are developing a cutting-edge AI-powered marketing automation platform exclusively for internal use aimed at transforming how we engage with our customers. This platform will empower our marketing teams with smarter more personalized and efficient tools allowing them to create seamless data-driven customer journeys across multiple channels. As a Staff Engineer you will play a critical role in the architecture design and development of this platform bringing advanced AI and machine learning techniques into the heart of our marketing processes.

Our Staff Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working on Web solutions ensuring that we provide 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 and a proven background in JavaScript ReactJS Java Microservices Containers (Kubernetes) and design implementing and maintaining front-end UIs.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Staff Engineer you will:

• Scope design and build scalable resilient distributed systems

• Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution

• Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle

• Lead design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization

• Define create and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective

• Utilize programming languages like JavaScript TypeScript Java C# Python and Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes and a variety of Azure tools and services across the software development life cycle (task management source code building deployment operations real-time communication) to perform advanced-level Java application design under minimal direction

• Utilizes developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management source code building deployment operations real-time communication) to perform advanced-level Mobile/Web/UI design implementation and maintenance activities under minimal direction

• Mentor other engineers

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Qualifications:

• Experience with design develop and deploy machine learning solutions to solve complex problems and integrate them into software systems
• Experience building MarTech applications including implementation solution design

• Fluency with Java Phthon React Redux JavaScript/TypeScript CSS JSON RESTful Web Services NodeJS Cassandra and Event Driven Architectures

• Strong Cloud (AWS GCP Azure etc.) platform knowledge

• Familiar with Project Management and work item management tools such as Azure DevOps JIRA

• Exemplary ability to design perform experiments and influence engineering direction and product roadmap

• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production

• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code

• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms

• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches

• 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)

• Fluency and Specialization with modern languages such as Java Python including object-oriented design

• Experience with Micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs

• Experience with AI/ML and data driven integration with backend

• Experience building the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

• Fluency in DevOps Concepts Cloud Architecture and Azure DevOps Operational Framework

• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments

• Experience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory Windows Authentication SAML OAuth

Experience:

• 10 years of professional software development experience within Web frameworks/SDKs/languages

• 8 years of experience with architecture and design

• 4 years of experience with AWS GCP Azure or another cloud service

• 3 years of experience in open-source frameworks
• 3 years of experience with AI/ML

Education:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or equivalent education

Annual Salary

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.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company:At GEICO we help our customers through lifes twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and were constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

Were an iconic brand that thrives on innovation exceeding our customers expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one youll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on peoples lives.

Great Careers:We offer a career where you can learn grow and thrive through personalized development programs created with your career and your potential in mind. Youll have access to industry leading training certification assistance career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture:We foster an inclusive culture of shared success rooted in integrity a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values we have an an established culture of caring inclusion and belonging that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards:We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your familys 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.

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.