Staff Engineer Customer Platform
Bethesda, MD - USA
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 lowmaintenance zero-downtime platforms and applications.In this role youwill helpuscreatethe elevatedand superiorversion ofworking specifically tomodernize theframeworksand technologies. In this role you will be a part of a technicaltransformation where engineering excellence continuous improvement AI automation and a culture of psychological safety are paramount.
Position Description
Our Staff Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide friction-less experiences to our customers and maintaining the highest standards of protection and availability. Key engineering responsibilities will focus on the development and continued maintenance of severalweb applications and their supporting architecture including both customer-facing experiences as well as internally developed web tools to facilitate content management.
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 bringing forward a full stack mindset work duties can range from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.
Position Responsibilities
As a Staff Engineer you will:
Evolve and its supporting systems with a focus onspeed to market security 24x7 availability and user engagement.
Scope design and build scalable and resilient software solutions amongst diverse engineering groups
Utilize object-oriented languages SQLbaseddatabases Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes and a variety ofCloud hostingtools and services
Perform engineering design evaluations and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
Manage day-to-day activities of the engineering teams overseeing execution of software development projects against delivery commitments
Seek ways to simplify and standardize designs operations and deployment plans focusing on reducing complexity and providing performance agility and scalability
Responsible for production operations support and ensuring availability stability and performance of production applications
Collaborate with cross-functional organizations throughout the entire software lifecycle to ensure technology and roadmap alignment
Manage projects and processes to keep the team organized efficient and optimally running
Set manage and report KPIs to measure progress and facilitate data-driven decision making
Responsible for evaluating and driving new technology and Open-Source software considerations
Research and guide architectural level changes that support and enhance application performance security and our drive to innovate
Mentor and manage engineering peers to help share the necessary skills to perform their jobs and develop their professional careers
Qualifications
Strong understanding ofcustomer facingweb applications with experience in JavaScript Python/Django NGINX or PostgreSQL.
Ability tobreak downanalytic data to drive decisions and results that will provide business value to the organization and help our customers
Strong background in delivering digital - web products at scale
Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts platforms and technologies
Advanced understanding ofapplication and infrastructuremonitoring and tooling
Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Experience designing flexible scalable high-availability Cloud native applications
Experience architecting and designing new and current systems
Strong understanding of CI/CD Release Management and Configuration Management processes tooling
Strong critical thinking decision making and problem-solving skills
Excellent verbal/written communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate to both senior leadership and highly technical personnel
Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment
Experience delivering within a customer facing application backed by a Content Management system is desired
Understanding of data modeling and AI concepts is desired
Annual Salary
$105000.00 - $260000.00The 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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
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