Staff Engineer - Data Exchange Platform (REMOTE)

The Staff Engineer will lead the development of a data exchange platform for GEICO's Insurance Marketplace, which enables scalable and extensible integrations with internal and external partners. You will lead the strategy and execution of the technical roadmap of this foundational sub-area of one of GEICO's fastest growing businesses. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in large-scale distributed system design and development.

Position Responsibilities:

As a Staff Engineer, you will:

• Act as the functional tech lead to for the cross-functional product development team;

• Coordinate and collaborate with product managers, engineering team members and customers to solve complex problems

• Lead the high-level and low-level designs of a foundational area of the insurance marketplace – particularly around data exchange with internal and external partners -- and be responsible and accountable for the quality, reliability and performance of the solutions

• Leverage open-source frameworks and embrace the cloud native development paradigm

• Mentor and help coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community

• Always push for engineering excellence; consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.

Qualifications:

• Fluency and specialization with at least two modern OOP languages such as C#, Java, C++, or Python including object-oriented design
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development, with a strong focus on SAAS products / platforms. 
• Proven experience designing and delivering highly-resilient event-driven and messaging based solutions at scale with minimal latency. 
• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)
• Experience in existing Operational tools available on platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP
• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments 
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
• Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible will be big plus

Experience

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• Knowledge of PaaS and IaaS is strongly preferred

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

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