Staff Engineer

Staff Engineer Enterprise Engineering (Associate Experience)

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Staff 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.

Position Description

Our Staff Engineer is a key member of the Associate Experience platform engineering team working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our associates and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. You will partner with team members and engineer leaders to architect and develop our companys enterprise Associate Portal revolutionizing the associate experience through a personalized seamless and innovative platform that empowers every individual to excel in their roles and drive organizational success. You will work to innovate and build new systems improve and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply their knowledge to solve critical problems. This role requires strong engineering experience with CMSs (content management systems).

Position Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer you will:

• Focus on multiple areas and provide technical leadership to the enterprise
• Collaborate with product managers team members customers and other engineering teams to solve complex problems
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains
• Accountable for the quality usability and performance of the solutions
• Utilize programming languages like Java React Python C# or other object-oriented languages SQL and NoSQL databases Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes and a variety of Azure tools and services
• Influence and educate/mentor junior associates
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• 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 languages such as Java React C Python or C# including object-oriented design
• Expertise with AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) and the Adobe suite or equivalent CMS platforms
• Experience building products of micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Experience building the architecture and design of new and current systems (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling)
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
• Fluency in DevOps Concepts Cloud Architecture and Azure DevOps Operational Framework
• 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
• Experience with 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)
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• Track-record of publications history in credible conferences and journals

Experience

• 5 years of professional software development experience within a Java framework (J2EE web containers and Java)
• 5 years of professional software development with CMS platforms
• 5 years of experience with AWS GCP Azure or another cloud service
• 7 years of experience with architecture and design
• 5 years of experience in open-source frameworks

Education

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or equivalent education or work experience

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.