Staff Engineer - Java

September 24

🏄 California – Remote

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🗽 New York – Remote

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🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🦀 Maryland – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $110k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

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GEICO

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Finance • Insurance

GEICO is a well-known American auto insurance company, providing coverage to a wide range of customers. As a leading provider of car insurance, GEICO is known for its innovative marketing and customer-centric services, delivering affordable insurance options. The company utilizes a user-friendly website for managing policies and claims, applying necessary online privacy measures to protect personal data and improve user experience. While primarily focused on auto insurance, GEICO also offers other types of insurance, including homeowner and renter policies.

10,000+ employees

Founded 1936

💸 Finance

📋 Description

• Provide influential technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams. • Own complete solution across its entire life cycle. • Proactively influence and collaboratively build vision with product managers, principal engineers, architects, team members, and customers to solve complex enterprise-class problems, demonstrating clear, concise communication and active listening. • Be accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions. • Lead impactful architectural design discussions and contribute to elevating the quality of engineering through active participation in peer review requests across the organization. • Utilize programming languages like Java, and open-source frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot), Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, Kafka, and a variety of Azure tools and services including Azure Boards and Azure AppInsights, alongside cloud data platforms like Snowflake. • Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential and consistently share best practices and drive improvements within and across teams. • Drive digital transformation initiatives, including modernizing and migrating legacy applications.

🎯 Requirements

• Fluency and Specialization with Java and at least one other modern language (e.g., C++, C#) including object-oriented design. • 12+ years of professional software development experience, with significant, demonstrable impact in a lead or principal engineering capacity, primarily within a Java (e.g., Spring Boot) framework. • 5+ years of experience in architectural design and leading significant system initiatives, including collaboration with cross-functional technical leadership. • 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks. • 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service. • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience. • Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly, concisely, and directly, both verbally and in writing. • Proven ability to provide independent technical leadership and mentor engineers with significant depth. • Deep architectural maturity, capable of fostering and driving broader organizational influence through technical vision. • Expertise in complex problem-solving autonomy, particularly in troubleshooting critical production issues and devising creative, scalable technical solutions. • Experience in building products using microservices-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs. • Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems. • Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework, including continuous delivery and infrastructure as code. • Experience with various operational tools and platforms, including Azure Portal, Azure Boards, and SonarQube. • Familiarity with and experience applying Agile/Scrum methodologies. • Strong understanding and practical experience with application monitoring, performance assessments, and observability practices, leveraging tools such as Azure AppInsights, Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, or Splunk. • In-depth knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and offerings, particularly within the Azure platform and its native services. • Experience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, and other secure authentication/authorization mechanisms. • In-depth knowledge of computer science data structures and algorithms. • Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication), including familiarity with tools like webhook, Kafka, API Curio, Snowflake, and IBM FileNet P8. • Demonstrated experience driving digital transformation, including successfully migrating or modernizing complex legacy applications. • Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment. • At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

🏖️ Benefits

• The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. • Personalized development programs, industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching. • Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s 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. • Workplace flexibility and GEICO Flex program offering the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.