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 API's 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
$110,000.00 - $230,000.00
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 candidate's work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
