Staff Engineer - JAVA; HYBRID

Position Overview:

As a Staff Engineer, you will:

• Focus on a few key areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams.
• Own complete solutions across their entire life cycle.
• Design and implement messaging and UI applications using the Java platform and open‑source frameworks.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to define overall system architecture, ensuring scalability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
• Act as a technical and thought leader for domains such as Messaging, GraphQL API, or data streaming.
• Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise‑class business applications.
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions.
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions to track system performance and troubleshoot issues.
• Lead design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization.
• Utilize programming languages such as Java, SQL, and No
  
  SQL databases, container orchestration services (including Docker and Kubernetes), and a variety of Azure tools and services.
• Mentor junior team members and consistently share best practices to improve processes within and across teams.

• Fluency and specialization with modern languages such as Java, including object‑oriented design.
• Experience creating micro‑services oriented architectures and extensible APIs.
• Experience designing and implementing architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling for new and existing systems.
• Experience containerizing applications using Docker or Kubernetes (AKS preferred).
• Experience designing performance tests with tools such as JMeter or Load Runner.
• Familiarity with continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and Power Shell scripting.
• Understanding of monitoring portals such as Splunk or Application Insights.
• Knowledge of security protocols and products including Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth.
• Strong familiarity with GraphQL web services.
• Passion for documentation and mentoring junior developers.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Gradle, and Artifactory.
• Strong problem‑solving ability and hands‑on experience with real‑time event streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka.
• Familiarity with No
  
  SQL and graph databases.
• Experience writing unit tests using common testing frameworks and contributing to code quality.
• 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).
• Minimum 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• Minimum 3+ years of experience in architecture and design.
• Minimum 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience in open‑source frameworks.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.

Annual Salary: $ – $. The above salary range is a general guideline; final compensation will be determined based on scope, responsibilities, experience, education, and market considerations.

GEICO will consider sponsoring qualified applicants for employment authorization for this position.

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 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.