Geico

Staff Engineer - Java (API/Software Development/Microservices)

Geico$110K — $230K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Expertise in API first design, service orchestration, event-driven architecture, and real-time APIs.
  • Experience in transitioning research to production with engineering teams.
  • Fluency in Java and another modern object-oriented language like C# or Python.
  • Proven ability to manage API schema evolution and high-performance systems.
  • Hands-on experience building large-scale SaaS applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Deep understanding of both SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Cosmos.
  • Strong architectural skills with a focus on reliability and scalability in system design.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership across multiple technical domains.
  • Collaborate with teams to tackle complex technological challenges.
  • Deliver high-quality software and services across various domains.
  • Ensure quality, usability, and performance of all deployed solutions.
  • Develop APIs and microservices utilizing technologies like GraphQL, gRPC, and Kafka.
  • Deploy applications in hybrid cloud environments using Kubernetes.
  • Mentor and coach fellow engineers to elevate team technical skills.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead innovative technological projects.
  • Collaborative work environment with multi-domain expertise.
  • Professional development through mentoring roles.
  • Access to cutting-edge cloud-native tools and services.
  • Potential for significant impact within the organization.
Full Job Description
Position Description

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


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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.

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.
Learn more about Geico
Size
40,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1936

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