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Staff Engineer - JavaGEICO • Palo Alto, CA
Staff Engineer - Java

Staff Engineer - Java

GEICO • Palo Alto, CA
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge : Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

Position Description

Our Staff Engineer is an influential technical leader and key member of the engineering staff working across 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, and demonstrates a proactive, critical thinking approach to complex problem-solving and driving technological advancement.

Position Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer, you will :

  • Provide influential technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams.
  • Own complete solution across its entire life cycle.
  • Proactively influence and collaboratively build vision with product managers, principal engineers, architects, team members, and customers to solve complex enterprise-class problems, demonstrating clear, concise communication and active listening.
  • Be accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions.
  • Lead impactful architectural design discussions and contribute to elevating the quality of engineering through active participation in peer review requests across the organization.
  • Utilize programming languages like Java, and open-source frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot), Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, Kafka, and a variety of Azure tools and services including Azure Boards and Azure AppInsights, alongside cloud data platforms like Snowflake.
  • Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential.
  • Consistently share best practices and drive improvements within and across teams, fostering curiosity and innovation to advance our technology and processes.
  • Drive digital transformation initiatives, including modernizing and migrating legacy applications.

Qualifications

  • Fluency and Specialization with Java and at least one other modern language (e.g., C++, C#) including object-oriented design.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly, concisely, and directly, both verbally and in writing.
  • Proven ability to provide independent technical leadership and mentor engineers with significant depth.
  • Deep architectural maturity, capable of fostering and driving broader organizational influence through technical vision.
  • Expertise in complex problem-solving autonomy, particularly in troubleshooting critical production issues and devising creative, scalable technical solutions.
  • Experience in building products using microservices-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs.
  • Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems, with a proven ability to think strategically and take a holistic, cross-domain view on system design.
  • Extensive experience collaborating with architects and other technical leaders to shape engineering strategy and solutions.
  • Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework, including continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.
  • Experience with various operational tools and platforms, including Azure Portal, Azure Boards, and SonarQube.
  • Familiarity with and experience applying Agile / Scrum methodologies.
  • Strong understanding and practical experience with application monitoring, performance assessments, and observability practices, leveraging tools such as Azure AppInsights, Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, or Splunk.
  • In-depth understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts and offerings, particularly within the Azure platform and its native services.
  • Experience in security protocols and products : Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, and other secure authentication / authorization mechanisms.
  • In-depth knowledge of computer science data structures and algorithms.
  • 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), including familiarity with tools like webhook, Kafka, API Curio, Snowflake, and IBM FileNet P8.
  • Demonstrated experience driving digital transformation, including successfully migrating or modernizing complex legacy applications.
  • Experience

  • 12+ years of professional software development experience, with significant, demonstrable impact in a lead or principal engineering capacity, primarily within a Java (e.g., Spring Boot) framework.
  • 5+ years of experience in architectural design and leading significant system initiatives, including collaboration with cross-functional technical leadership.
  • 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks.
  • 3+ 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 - $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.

    The GEICO Pledge :

    Great Company :  At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

    We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

    Great Careers :  We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

    Great Culture :  We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

    As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

    Great Rewards :  We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
  • Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
  • Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
  • Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
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