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Senior Staff Engineer (Remote)

GEICO
San Francisco, CA
$110K-$261.5K a year
Remote
Full-time

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 Senior Staff Engineer works with our Staff and 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 that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities.

The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in their domain.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will :

Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise

Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems

Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains

Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions

Utilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services

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

Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Analyze 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 :

Strong UI / UX and prototype design knowledge and experience

Experience in digital asset management, personalization and using web analytics data to optimize the online customer experience

Experience with SEO best practices, Content Management, including implementation solution design and processing rule set

Fluency with HTML5, React, Redux, JavaScript / TypeScript, CSS, JSON, RESTful Web Services, NodeJS, and Event Driven Architectures

Strong Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) platform knowledge

Familiar with Project Management and work item management tools such as Azure DevOps, JIRA

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 modern languages such as Java, Python including object-oriented design

Experience with Micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs

Experience with AI / ML and data driven integration with backend

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 with application monitoring tools and performance assessments

Experience in security protocols and products : Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth

Experience in Azure Network (Subscription, Security zoning, etc.)

Experience :

10+ years of professional software development experience within a Java framework (J2EE, web containers and Java)

8+ years of experience with architecture and design

6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

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

Education :

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

Annual Salary

$110,000.00 - $261,500.00

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

  • 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 Reimbursement
  • 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.

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