Staff Engineer - Java; HYBRID

Staff Engineer – Java (HYBRID) – GEICO

Location:

Austin, TX

US $115,000 – $230,000 per year

Our Staff Engineer is an influential technical leader and key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a 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, ranging from front‑end UIs through back‑end systems, and demonstrates a proactive, critical‑thinking approach to complex problem‑solving and driving technological advancement.

• Provide influential technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams.
• Own complete solutions across their 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 Java and related frameworks such as Spring Boot, container orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, Kafka, and a variety of Azure tools and services including Azure Boards and Azure Application Insights, alongside cloud data platforms like Snowflake.
• Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential.
• Consistently share best practices and drive improvements within and across teams, fostering curiosity and innovation to advance our technology and processes.
• Drive digital transformation initiatives, including modernizing and migrating legacy applications.

• Fluency in Java and at least one other modern language (e.g., C++, C#) including object‑oriented design.
• 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 building products using microservices‑oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs.
• Experience designing and structuring new and current systems, with a proven ability to think strategically and take a holistic, cross‑domain view on system design.
• Extensive experience collaborating with architects and other technical leaders to shape engineering strategy and solutions.
• Fluency in Dev Ops concepts, cloud architecture, and Azure Dev Ops operations framework, including continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.
• Experience with operational tools and platforms such as Azure Portal, Azure Boards, and Sonar Qube.
• 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 Application Insights, Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, or Splunk.
• In‑depth understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts and offerings, particularly within the Azure platform and its native services.
• Experience with 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.
• 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…