Staff Engineer Full Stack Developer - Data (REMOTE)

Position Summary

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.

Position Description

Our Staff Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.

Position Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer, you will:

· Scope, design and build scalable, resilient enterprise data governance, Privacy and Risk Engineering Solutions

-Provide technical leadership for projects at the team level, mentor junior engineers and troubleshoot complex technical problems during execution phase

· Lead design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization

· Leverage automation to remove redundant error prone tasks to improve the quality of the solution

· Define features and user stories accurately fand leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solutions

· Engage in cross-functional collaboration with project stakeholders throughout the software lifecycle

· Define, create, and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective

· Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

· Strong problem-solving ability

· Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment

Qualifications

· Expertise in Python and Typescript/JavaScript. Experience with other programming languages like Java/ Kotlin or Golang

· Expertise in frontend development: Develop responsive and user-friendly interfaces using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, vite/ webpack and front-end frameworks/libraries like React, MUI, Ant Design etc.

· Expertise in backend development: Develop backend micro-services using RESTful APIs, GraphQL, BFF (Backend for Frontend), ORMs, orchestration frameworks like Airflow, FastAPI, Spring Boot framework and/or other Spring technologies

· Experience contributing to the architecture and design (ADRs, design patterns, system design, performance, scalability and reliability of systems, domain driven designs)

· Experience with testing tools like junit, pytest, vitest, jest, playwright/cypress etc

· Experience with relational and non-relational database technologies (SQL, Oracle, Postgres, NoSQL (Cosmos, MongoDB etc)), data warehouses like Snowflake

· Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud platform and Microsoft Azure Cloud services

· Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, version control systems like GIT, CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Gradle, Artifactory, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Github Actions

· Experience with container orchestration services including Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

· Experience with Big Data technologies such as HBase, Hive, Kafka, Graph DB and Cassandra

· Experience with performance, load and stress testing (Gatling, locust or equivalent)

· Experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Thousand Eyes, Influx, Grafana or equivalents and SRE (site reliability engineering) practices

· Knowledge of SDLC, object-oriented design, software engineering best practices (code reviews, unit testing, unit, integration and end to end testing, on-calls etc)

· Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)

· Experience working with shell scripting, bash/zsh/ sh

· Experience working on different operating systems like Linux (Alpine, Ubuntu, Red Hat) & Windows

Experience

· 6+ years of professional software development experience with the React/Python programming experience or an OOP style language

· 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

· 3+ years of experience with architecture and design

· 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

Education

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science,


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Annual Salary

$115,000.00 - $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.

 

Benefits:

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Assistance
• Paid Training and Licensures

*Benefits may be different by location.  Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.

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