Staff

GEICO

Job Location:

Bethesda, MD - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 115000 - 230000

Posted on: 6 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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.

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced 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 engineering staff working across the organization to provide a 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.

Position Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer you will:

Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams
Own complete solution across its entire life cycle
Partners with engineering teams data scientists and product leaders todesign build and scale AI-powered capabilities that automate workflowsimprove decision-making and elevate user experience. You will alsomentor engineers who want to learn AI LLMs and agent-baseddevelopment fostering a culture of learning curiosity and innovation.
Use knowledge graphs to enhance reasoning entity relationships contextretrieval and multi-step workflows.
Drive innovation by exploring new models frameworks and reasoningtechniques and applying them creatively to real-world challenges.
Lead through technical influence by providing guidance on architectureexperimentation and deployment across multiple teams.
Run rigorous experimentation and evaluation including hypothesisdefinition measurement validation and iterative improvement inproduction environments.
Establish and model engineering best practices for reliabilityinterpretability safety governance and monitoring of production AIsystems.
Influence and build vision with product managers team memberscustomers and other engineering teams to solve complex problems forbuilding enterprise-class business applications
Accountable for the quality usability and performance of the solutions
Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality ofengineering across the organization
Utilize programming languages like Python C# or other object-orientedlanguages SQL and NoSQL databases Container Orchestration servicesincluding Docker and Kubernetes and a variety of Azure tools and services
Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realizetheir full potential
Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Qualifications

Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such asJava Python or C# including object-oriented design
8 or more years of professional software engineering or applied machine learning experience including 2 or more years working with Generative AIor LLM-based systems in production.
Strong hands-on experience with Python and modern AI frameworks suchas LangChain LangGraph LangSmith LlamaIndex Hugging Face andOpenAI or Anthropic APIs.
Demonstrated experience designing building and operating production AIsystems including agentic workflows and intelligent automation features.
Proven experience building scalable resilient secure and maintainableproducts and systems that run reliably in production.
Strong understanding of agent architectures workflow orchestrationretrieval-augmented generation vector databases and knowledge graphintegration.
Ability to collaborate deeply across teams and co-create solutions withengineers product managers and domain experts.
Experience mentoring engineers and helping others grow in AI LLM an agent-based system design.
A history of delivering measurable business outcomes from AI systems.
Strong competency in distributed systems service design performanceoptimization and reliability engineering.
Experience in building products using micro-services oriented architectureand extensible REST APIs
Experience building the architecture and design (architecture designpatterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle(task management source code building deployment operations real-time communication)
Risk assessment
Ability to excel in a fast-paced startup-like environment

Experience

8 years of professional software development experience with C# Java or any object-oriented programming language and building advanced Generative AI capabilities including domain-tuned LLMs vector reasoning techniques or specialized retrieval architectures
4 years of experience in open-source frameworks
3 years of experience with architecture and design
3 years of experience with AWS GCP Azure or another cloud service

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.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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.

Required Experience:

Staff IC

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 ...