Staff Engineer - Java/Spring Boot/Event Driven Architecture/Workflow Orchestration & Backend Operations
Why Join GEICO?
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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.
Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported, and proud to work here. That's why we offer the GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards, and Great Careers.
Qualifications
Position Description
Our Staff Engineer works with our Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap modernizing our servicing organization with API first design. The ideal candidate is a self-starter that has deep technical expertise in their domain.
Position Responsibilities
As a Staff Engineer, you will:
- Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
- Collaborate across team members and across the tech organization to solve our toughest problems
- Deliver High-Quality services and software for a variety of domains
- Accountable for the quality, usability, performance and reliability of the solutions(high-volume, highly scalable systems and sub-second SLAs on latency-critical paths)
- Utilize your expertise in designing and developing API’s and microservices using graphQL, gRPC, Java, Python, Kafka, with a deep understanding of API first design
- Utilize programming languages like Java, C#, or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
- Deploy applications in a hybrid cloud environment utilizing Kubernetes, various data stores, and a variety of cloud native tools and services
- Work on End-to-End solutions that may span front-end through API tiers and Back-End domain services.
- Durable workflow orchestration (long-running processes, retries, idempotency, versioning, failure handling, production operations with platform teams)
- Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives
Qualifications
- Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
- Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
- Proven expertise in API-first engineering, event-driven architecture, and real-time APIs—including federated GraphQL and gRPC—with experience operating high-throughput systems and meeting strict latency targets (including sub-second SLAs on defined synchronous paths), plus sound handling of schema evolution and performance.
- Ability to manage schema evolution, versioning and high-performance API driven systems
- Proven experience designing and delivering highly-resilient event-driven and messaging based solutions at scale with minimal latency.
- Hands-on experience with durable workflow orchestration at scale (e.g. Temporal, AWS Step Functions, or equivalent): workflow design, versioning, failure handling, and production operations—integrated with messaging/event platforms where relevant
- Deep hands-on experience in building complex SAAS systems in large scale business focused systems, with great knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
- Fluency and Specialization with Java and at least one other modern language such as C#, C++, or Python including object-oriented design
- Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development
- Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Cosmos, Cassandra. Apache Trino etc.
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
- Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
Experience in implementing security protocols across services and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth
Annual Salary
$110,000.00 - $230,000.00The 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 candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.
Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.
Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.
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.