Senior Staff Software Engineer - Java - HYBRID

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.

Position Description: 

We are developing a cutting-edge, AI-powered marketing automation platform exclusively for internal use, aimed at transforming how we engage with our customers. This platform will empower our marketing teams with smarter, more personalized, and efficient tools, allowing them to create seamless, data-driven customer journeys across multiple channels. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will play a critical role in the architecture, design, and development of this platform, bringing advanced AI and machine learning techniques into the heart of our marketing processes.

Our Senior Staff Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working on Web solutions ensuring that we provide friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. 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, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between, and a proven background in Java, Microservices, Containers (Kubernetes), and design, implementing, and maintaining front-end UIs.  

Position Responsibilities   

​​As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will:   

• ​Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems   
• ​Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution   
• ​Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle   
• ​Lead design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
• Build and maintain platform observability infrastructure including monitoring dashboards, alerting systems, and incident response procedures   
• ​Define, create, and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective
• ​​Utilize programming languages like Java, Python, and Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) to perform advanced-level Java application design under minimal direction  
• Utilizes developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) to perform advanced-level Mobile/Web/UI design, implementation, and maintenance activities under minimal direction   
• ​Mentor and coach engineers across multiple teams, providing technical guidance, career development support, and constructive feedback to help them grow into senior technical roles    
• ​Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams 
• Design and implement data pipelines and analytics solutions using Snowflake and Power BI to drive marketing insights

Qualifications: 

• ​​​​Experience with design, develop and deploy machine learning solutions to solve complex problems and integrate them into software systems
• Experience building MarTech applications, including implementation solution design
• ​Fluency with Java, Spring Framework, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS, JSON, RESTful Web Services, NodeJS, Cassandra and Event Driven Architectures   
• ​Strong Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) platform knowledge   
• ​Familiar with Project Management and work item management tools such as Azure DevOps, JIRA   
• ​Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap   
• ​Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• Experience with platform stability and observability including building Grafana dashboards, configuring alerts, and implementing monitoring solutions
• ​​Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code   
• ​In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms   
• ​Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches    
• ​Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment   
• ​Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)   
• ​Fluency and Specialization with modern languages such as Java, Python including object-oriented design   
• ​Experience with Micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs   
• ​Experience with AI/ML and data driven integration with backend   
• ​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   
• ​Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments   
• ​Experience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth   
• Experience with Snowflake data platform including data warehousing, data modeling, and query optimization
• Proficiency in Power BI for creating interactive dashboards, reports, and data visualizations

Experience: 

• 10+ years of professional software development experience within Web frameworks/SDKs/languages  
• 8+ years of experience with architecture and design  
• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service  
• 3+ years of experience in open-source frameworks  
• 2+ years of experience with AI/ML

Education: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education

Annual Salary

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.

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.