Staff Engineer Applied AI (Java)

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.

We are seeking an accomplished Staff Software Engineer with a proven track record in Java development extensive experience with Spring Boot and expertise in designing and maintaining microservice-based architectures. The ideal candidate will also bring direct hands-on experience with Artificial Intelligence technologies such as RAG MCP Agent Skills and the end-to-end delivery of Generative AI applications. We require experience in leveraging AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Cursor Codex or similar platforms to improve productivity. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our software platforms driving innovation and mentoring the next generation of engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design develop and maintain scalable high-performance and modular microservices using Java (version 21) and Spring Boot (3.4.x).
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects and Product Managers to define technical roadmaps and architectural blueprints.
• Build and integrate AI-powered features focusing on Generative AI solutions.
• Partner with ML and Data Science teams to productionize AI models and support cutting-edge use cases.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship for engineering teams; establish best practices for code quality security testing and DevOps.
• Review code coach engineers and foster an inclusive learning-rich environment.
• Champion innovation stay abreast of technology trends and drive continuous improvement in engineering processes observability and automation.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field.
• 10 years of professional experience building maintainable scalable and high-performance systems in Java.
• Expert in modern Java (preferably Java 21) and hands-on with the latest features and best practices.
• Deep knowledge of Spring Boot (preferably 3.4.x) Spring Cloud and related frameworks.
• Extensive experience in designing and deploying distributed systems and microservice-based architectures.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with Generative AI applications and familiarity with AI concepts such as RAG and MCP.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Cursor Codex or similar) to improve software engineering productivity is required.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design secure API development and service-to-service communication patterns.
• Proficient with cloud technologies (AWS Azure or GCP) and containerization (Docker Kubernetes).
• Solid grounding in CI/CD automated testing infrastructure-as-code and observability.
• Excellent communication skills a collaborative mindset and experience mentoring engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience withTemporal(workflow orchestration) andSpring AI(artificial intelligence extensions for Spring).
• Open-source or community contributions in AI/Java/microservices/cloud tools.

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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.