Staff Engineer Java, Microservices (HYBRID)
Job Location:
Seattle, OR - USA
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Job Summary
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. Thats why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company Great Culture Great Rewards and Great Careers.
Our Staff Engineer works with our Engineers to innovate and build new systems improve and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap modernizing our servicing organization with API first design. The ideal candidate is a self-starter that has deep technical expertise in their domain.
Position Responsibilities
As a Staff Engineer you will:
Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
Collaborate across team members and across the tech organization to solve our toughest problems
Deliver High-Quality services and software for a variety of domains
Accountable for the quality usability and performance of the solutions
Utilize your expertise in designing and developing APIs and microservices using graphQL gRPC Java Python Kafka with a deep understanding of API first design
Utilize programming languages like Java C# or other object-oriented languages SQL and NoSQL databases.
Deploy applications in a hybrid cloud environment utilizing Kubernetes various data stores and a variety of cloud native tools and services
Work on End-to-End solutions that may span front-end through API tiers and Back-End domain services.
Be a role model and mentor helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives
Qualifications
Exemplary ability to design perform experiments and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
Proven expertise in API first engineering approaches service orchestration event driven architecture and real-time APIs including federated graphQL and gRPC implementations.
Ability to manage schema evolution versioning and high-performance API driven systems
Proven experience designing and delivering highly-resilient event-driven and messaging based solutions at scale with minimal latency.
Deep hands-on experience in building complex SAAS systems in large scale business focused systems with great knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
Fluency and Specialization with Java and at least one other modern language such as C# C or Python including object-oriented design
Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development
Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL PostgreSQL etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Cosmos Cassandra. Apache Trino etc.
Ability to excel in a fast-paced startup-like environment
Experience building the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
Experience in implementing security protocols across services and products: Understanding of Active Directory Windows Authentication SAML OAuth
Annual Salary
$100000.00 - $260000.00The 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 candidates 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 lifes twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and were constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.
Were an iconic brand that thrives on innovation exceeding our customers expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one youll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on peoples 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. Youll 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 familys 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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
About Company
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