Senior Staff Engineer - Payments Platform

March 26

🦀 Maryland – Remote

Although this job is listed in Maryland, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $115k - $260k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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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

• Lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap for modernization of our Payments Platform, with a strong focus on data architecture • Design how payment data is stored, collected, and structured to power critical use cases such as fraud, business analytics, machine learning and financial reporting • Architect and implement secure, resilient, and compliant data systems for our payment platform across legacy (MS SQL) and modern (Postgres, Cassandra) systems • Develop and execute a strategy for real-time and batch data processing, ensuring data is correct, complete and timely for downstream use cases • Lead the development of data-driven solutions, including integrating complex data systems, and implementing analytics capabilities to derive insights from large datasets • Partner closely with data engineers, analysts and scientists to define and implement data models and pipelines, that support critical business use cases • Provide mentorship and foster a culture of learning and engineering excellence • Set high standards for code, design documentation, and technical decision-making • Establish practices for a high-performing engineering organization • Stay ahead of industry trends and recommend new technologies • Resolve service disruptions and implement prevention/self-healing mechanisms • Influence and educate stakeholders at all levels

🎯 Requirements

• Proven track record of designing and implementing data platforms for payments, financial or highly regulated systems • Ability to connect technical data solutions to business needs, ensuring data is actionable for business use cases • Deep understanding of modern data architecture patterns, including event-driven architecture, steam processing (e.g. kafka) and real-time data processing • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to architect complex systems that can process and analyze large-scale data efficiently • Strong experience with cloud-native architecture, CNCF frameworks, and databases like Postgres and Cassandra • Proficiency in modern programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, Python, C#) and data-related tools like Kafka, Airflow, Spark, etc. • Strong problem-solving, leadership and collaboration skills across distributed teams • Understanding of data privacy, compliance, and governance practices in the payments industry

🏖️ Benefits

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period** • Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave • 401(k) Plan • Tuition Assistance • Paid Training and Licensures