Staff Engineer, Software Engineer

Staff Engineer – Enterprise Engineering (Associate Experience)

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer with a passion for building high performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Position Description

Our Staff Engineer is a key member of the Associate Experience platform engineering team working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our associates and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. You will partner with team members and engineer leaders to architect and develop our company’s enterprise Associate Portal, revolutionizing the associate experience through a personalized, seamless, and innovative platform that empowers every individual to excel in their roles and drive organizational success.

You will work to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply their knowledge to solve critical problems. This role requires strong engineering experience with CMSs (content management systems).

Position Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer, you will:

• Focus on multiple areas and provide technical leadership to the enterprise
• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Utilize programming languages like Java, React, Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and No
  
  SQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
• Influence and educate/mentor junior associates
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning

Qualifications

• Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, React, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design
• Expertise with AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) and the Adobe suite, or equivalent CMS platforms
• Experience building products of micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Experience building the architecture and design of new and current systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
• Fluency in Dev Ops Concepts, Cloud Architecture and Azure Dev Ops Operational Framework
• Experience in existing operational portals such as Azure Portal
• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
• Experience in Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, including the Azure platform and its native services
• Experience in security protocols and products: understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth
• Experience in Azure Network (subscription, security zoning, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Experience with 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)
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• Track-record of publications history in credible conferences and journals

Experience

• 5+ years of professional software development experience within a Java framework (J2EE, web containers and Java)
• 5+ years of professional software development with CMS platforms
• 5+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 7+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 5+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

Education

• Bachelor’s degree…