Sr Staff Software Engineer - (Amazon Connect/Lex) (REMOTE)

GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will:

• Provides leadership to engineering teams utilizing best practices for Voice and related technologies
• Owns complete solutions across the entire life cycle while utilizing strong problem-solving ability
• Influences and builds vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise class business applications
• Holds accountability for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Leads design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization

• Mentors junior team members in Voice and related technologies
• Shares best practices and improves processes within and across teams utilizing documentation and knowledge sharing sessions

• Understand Business requirements to translate them into technical solutionsAnalyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning

Qualifications

• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• Track-record of publications history in credible conferences and journals
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches 
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
• Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, Python or C# including object-oriented design
• Experience with micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
• Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework
• Experience in leveraging PowerShell scripting 
• Experience in existing Operational Portals such as AWS Console
• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
• In depth knowledge of Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, including the AWS platform, and its native services including the AWS platform and its native services
• Experience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth
• Experience …