Geico

Senior Staff Engineer - Java / Test Engineering & Applied AI - Hybrid

Geico • $130K — $260K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of full-stack development experience (Java/C#/Python/Go)
  • Extensive experience architecting large-scale SaaS platforms and microservices
  • 2+ years of experience with applied AI, generative AI, or intelligent automation in production
  • Deep expertise in automated testing practices across the test pyramid
  • 6+ years of experience providing technical direction across multiple teams

Responsibilities

  • Own technical architecture and direction for a medium-to-large product or platform capability area
  • Drive adoption of platforms, patterns, and standards across teams
  • Collaborate with product and analytics partners to translate business needs into technical designs
  • Deliver high-quality services and software, ensuring usability and performance
  • Identify opportunities to apply AI and intelligent automation to enterprise processes
  • Define and advance the automated testing strategy across the test pyramid
  • Multiply leadership capacity by coaching and mentoring engineers

Benefits

  • Opportunities for continuous learning and professional development
  • Participation in communities of practice and industry forums
  • Support for leadership skill development across technical and non-technical areas
  • Access to cutting-edge technologies and tools
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams
Full Job Description

Our Senior Staff Engineer works with our engineering organization 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 set technical direction for a medium-to-large product or platform capability area, lead the strategy and execution of a multi-team technical roadmap that increases delivery velocity and unlocks new engineering capabilities, and shape how applied AI and intelligent automation are incorporated into enterprise solutions where they materially improve business outcomes. You will define reusable frameworks and standards, drive adoption and buy-in across teams, and communicate technical strategy clearly to tech and business stakeholders. The ideal candidate is self-directed, with deep technical expertise, strong judgment on which AI technologies are appropriate for various use cases, and a track record of raising engineering quality—including automated testing and AI-accelerated test practices—while ensuring solutions meet enterprise standards for reliability, security, and operability.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will:

Own technical architecture and direction for a medium-to-large, cross-functional product or platform capability area; align roadmaps across teams and surface tradeoffs to stakeholders, including applied AI architecture, technology selection, and integration patterns

Drive adoption of platforms, patterns, and standardsarticulate a clear technical vision, build organizational buy-in, and measure uptake across teams

Collaborate across the tech organization to solve our toughest problems, working with product, domain experts, and analytics partners to translate business needs into technical designs that may include AI components

Deliver high-quality services and software for a variety of domains, including AI-augmented workflows and intelligent services where appropriate, with accountability for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions included overseeing how we apply testing and ensure quality to our deliverables.

Identify and evaluate opportunities to apply AI, intelligent automation, and agentic workflows to enterprise processes, distinguishing high-value use cases from hype-driven experiments

Define and advance the automated testing strategy for services and platforms across the test pyramid (unit, contract, integration, E2E, performance, and related practices)including shift-left quality, CI gates, flaky-test reduction, and clear test ownership models and system integrator management

Accelerate test creation, maintenance, and triage with AI (e.g., AI-assisted test generation, coverage gap analysis, failure clustering, root-cause suggestions, synthetic data, visual/regression assist), with human review, determinism, and governance so AI does not introduce brittle or insecure tests

Utilize programming languages like Java, C#, or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, container orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, cloud tools and services across Azure/AWS/GCP, and integrate AI services, model APIs, and orchestration tooling into the platform stack

Multiply leadership capacity: coach Staff and Senior engineers on architecture, decision-making, and stakeholder communication; sponsor communities of practice; and strengthen applied AI patterns, production evaluation, and responsible deployment practices across the engineering community. Translate technical strategy for tech and business VPs at the right altitude

Lead department-oriented continuous improvement; participate in communities of practice and industry forums; and sponsor continuous learning that raises technical and non-technical leadership skills across the organization

Qualifications

Extensive experience architecting and building large-scale SaaS platforms and microservices (GraphQL, gRPC, Java, Python, Kafka) with API and event-driven patterns, deployed on Docker/Kubernetes and major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)

2+ years shipping LLM, generative AI, or intelligent automation in production, with strong judgment on when to use agents, RAG, classical ML, rules-based workflows, or hybrid approaches; experience integrating AI into enterprise services and designing durable, observable workflows (e.g., Temporal, Fable)

Deep hands-on expertise across the full lifecycle development including test engineering practices and automated testing, shadow validation and test data management practices.

Deep automated testing practice across the test pyramid, with proven use of AI to accelerate authoring, maintenance, and failure analysis; governance for non-deterministic tooling; and production engineering discipline across security (OAuth, SAML, Active Directory), observability, and operating AI-augmented systemsincluding evaluation, regression testing, safety, and governance

Self-directed Senior Staff technical leadership: ownership of multi-team product/platform direction; reusable frameworks and standards; driving adoption and buy-in; mentoring Staff and Senior engineers into leaders; crisp communication to stakeholders; and transferring applied AI and platform capabilities from prototype to production

Experience

10+ years full-stack development experience (Java/C#/Python/Go), with expertise in client-side and server-side frameworks

6+ years of experience with architecture and technical direction across multiple teams

2+ years of applied AI, generative AI, or intelligent automation experience in production, or demonstrable ownership of AI-enabled platform capabilities

Significant ownership of automated testing strategy, with evidence of AI-assisted testing or test-platform acceleration preferred

4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

Education

Bachelor9s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience


Annual Salary

$130,000.00 - $260,000.00

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 candidate9s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.


At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

About Geico

GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is an American auto insurance company with headquarters in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It is the second largest auto insurer in the United States, after State Farm. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway that provides coverage for more than 24 million motor vehicles owned by more than 15 million policy holders as of 2017. GEICO writes private passenger automobile insurance in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The insurance agency sells policies through local agents, called GEICO Field Representatives, and over the phone directly to the consumer, and through their website.
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