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Senior Staff Engineer - Financial Substantiation Platform *Hybrid*

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Seattle, WA, USA
120K-260K Annually
Senior level
In-Office
Seattle, WA, USA
120K-260K Annually
Senior level
Design, build, and scale the Substantiation Platform for validating and reconciling financial data. Provide architectural leadership and mentor engineers.
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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. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

GEICO seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and scale the Substantiation Platform—systems that validate and reconcile financial data across enterprise sources, supporting controls, compliance, and auditability at high volume. 

You will work with Finance, Compliance, Product, the Financial Data Warehouse, and ERP-aligned teams to deliver reliable reconciliation services, clear data lineage, and integrate source systems with financial reporting and GL-related ERP workflows. 

Responsibilities 

As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will: 

  • Provide technical and architectural leadership for substantiation and reconciliation services, APIs, and related data paths. 

  • Build scalable, secure, highly available software for matching, exceptions, and financial controls. 

  • Drive modernization initiatives—including evolution away from legacy reconciliation and financial systems. 

  • Own solutions end-to-end—design through production—including quality, reliability, performance, and observability. 

  • Align with Product, Finance, Compliance, and Treasury on requirements and operational outcomes. 

  • Mentor engineers and foster a culture of continuous learning; influence leadership at multiple levels through clear articulation of tradeoffs and roadmaps. 

Qualifications 

  • Fluency and specialization with at least one modern language such as Java, C#, or Go

  • Microservices / SOA, REST and gRPC (or comparable APIs), solid SQL and relational design at scale

  • Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD, containers, IaC, and production DevOps/observability practices

  • Proven architecture and design for distributed, data-heavy systems; strong production troubleshooting

  • Excellent communication with technical and non-technical partners; Agile delivery experience

  • Expertise in complex problem-solving autonomy, including troubleshooting critical production issues and devising creative, scalable technical solutions under pressure

Experience 

  • 10+ years software development with staff/principal-level impact. 

  • 8+ years leading architecture and large initiatives with cross-functional technical leadership. 

  • 6+ years cloud-native / distributed systems in production. 

  • 5+ years high-volume data, reconciliation, or financial/payments/ledger-adjacent systems.

  •  ​4+ years major cloud platform.

Preferred 

  • Financial services / insurance; ERP/GL familiarity. 

  • Kafka / Snowflake / Airflow; Python/PySpark/Snowpark a plus. 

Education 

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS, Engineering, or related field—or equivalent experience. 

Location (hybrid) 

Bethesda, MD · Dallas, TX 

Be Part of Our Journey 

At GEICO, we are not just an insurance company; we are a technology-driven organization that is transforming the insurance landscape. Our mission is to leverage cutting-edge technology to deliver exceptional experiences for our customers and create innovative solutions that redefine the industry. If you are a passionate technologist looking to build platforms that earn trust in our financial data—and to do so alongside outstanding engineering peers—GEICO Tech is the place for you. 

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Annual Salary

$120,000.00 - $260,000.00

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 candidate’s 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 life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s 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.  You’ll 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 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.
  • 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.

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