Staff Java Engineer (REMOTE)

Customer data will be the fuel for GEICO’s growth and transformation through the years ahead. Here’s your chance to get involved and help shape one of our company’s most critical initiatives. 

The Single View of the Customer (SVOC) Team is seeking talented senior to principal-level engineers to join our team with a focus on growing our data streaming, customer data platform, and core API capabilities. An ideal candidate is intellectually curious, has a solution-oriented mindset, and enjoys learning new tools and techniques. You will have the opportunity to design and execute vital efforts such as delivering real-time capabilities for critical data sources, building out identity resolution, segmentation, and exploration features, and enabling key use cases by making our web service more robust and resilient.

Position Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer, you will:

• Focus on a few key areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams.

• Own complete solution across its entire life cycle.

• Design and implement real-time data streaming solutions using technologies like Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar frameworks.

• Collaborate with engineering team to define the overall system architecture, ensuring scalability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.

• Act as a technical and thought leader for domains like Customer Data Platforms, GraphQL API, or data streaming.

• Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications.

• Accountable for the quality, usability & performance of the solutions.

• Implement monitoring and logging solutions to track system performance and troubleshoot issues.

• Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization.

• Utilize programming languages like Java, .NET, Python, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services.

• Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential.

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.

Qualifications

• Fluency and Specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, C#, or Python including object-oriented design.

• Experience in building products micro-services oriented architecture and extensible APIs.

• Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.

• Experience containerizing applications using Docker or Kubernetes (AKS preferred)

• Experience designing and implementing performance testing with tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner

• Familiarity with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.

• Experience in leveraging PowerShell scripting

• Understanding of Monitoring Portals …