Geico

Staff Engineer - Java/Spring Boot/Event Driven Architecture/Workflow Orchestration & Backend Operations

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

Qualifications

  • Proficiency in API-first design, event-driven architecture, and real-time APIs including GraphQL and gRPC.
  • Experience with high-throughput systems meeting strict latency targets.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage API schema evolution and high-performance systems.
  • Hands-on experience with durable workflow orchestration solutions at scale.
  • Fluency in Java and experience with at least one other modern programming language.
  • Deep understanding of cloud deployments using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Strong foundation in both SQL and NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

  • Guide technical leadership across multiple areas and influence engineering direction.
  • Collaborate with teams to tackle complex problems and deliver software.
  • Ensure high-quality services that are reliable and scalable.
  • Oversee the performance and usability of solutions with strict SLAs.
  • Design and develop APIs and microservices utilizing various modern technologies.
  • Deploy applications in hybrid cloud environments using Kubernetes.
  • Mentor and coach team members, strengthening the technical expertise of the community.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional growth within an innovative technical environment.
  • Exposure to advanced cloud-native tools and cutting-edge practices.
  • Mentorship opportunities from experienced senior engineers.
  • Collaboration with a diverse and skilled team across the tech organization.
Full Job Description
Qualifications

Our Staff Engineer works with our Sr. 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, performance and reliability of the solutions(high-volume, highly scalablesystems andsub-second SLAson latency-critical paths)
  • Utilize your expertise in designing and developing API27s 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.
  • Durableworkflow orchestration(long-running processes, retries, idempotency, versioning, failure handling, production operations with platform teams)
  • 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 inAPI-firstengineering,event-driven architecture, andreal-time APIs26mdash;includingfederated GraphQLandgRPC26mdash;with experienceoperating high-throughput systemsandmeeting strict latency targets(includingsub-second SLAson defined synchronous paths), plus sound handling ofschema evolution and performance.
  • 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.
  • Hands-on experience withdurable workflow orchestrationat scale (e.g.Temporal, AWS Step Functions, or equivalent): workflow design,versioning, failure handling, and production operations26mdash;integrated withmessaging/eventplatforms where relevant
  • 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 candidate27s 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.


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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Size
40,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1936

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