Staff Engineer – Full Stack Applications at GEICO in Bethesda, MD

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.

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.

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Staff Engineer – Full Stack within our Capacity and workload management organization. This role is within the capacity management platform team, and its goal is to lead the UI and backend development of full stack platform to address the infrastructure demand, capacity and quota needs of a hybrid cloud environment. The platform would be built using open-source technologies and would be scalable to handle Geico’s growing infrastructure needs. The ideal candidate has lead level experience leading and managing both front-end UI and back-end systems development+ and all points in between and is willing to lead and contribute across the stack depending on the needs of the team.

As a Staff Engineer, you will:

· Provide technical and thought leadership across multiple layers of the stack, focusing on fullstack web application development and ensuring the integration of UI, microservices and backend systems.

Work closely with product leaders, other engineers and partner teams to understand product requirements, build a technical backlog, and develop solutions that align with product vision.

· Lead the development of UI using React, Typescript and Bootstrap on a Django framework while also contributing to the Architecture and development of microservices using Golang,Python, Django and Kafka.

· Design and implement loosely coupled, scalable microservices

· Own and drive one to two service areas, being accountable for their successful delivery, from requirement analysus,design through to production, and ensuring they meet performance, scalability and reliability standards.

· Act as a role model and mentor to senior and junior engineers, guiding them in understanding the architecture, design and implementation of systems.

· Maintain excellent communication with Parter teams and leads, articulating technical implementations for various stakeholders, ensuring alignment across teams.

· Proactively explore unknown product requirements and design solutions that meet evolving needs, contributing to the continuous improvement of our platform.

· Leverage your experience in deploying wen applications in Kubernetes (k8s) environments, ensuring reliable interaction with backend services and seamless integration with cloud and on-premises systems.

Qualifications

· Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack web applications, with a strong focus on front-end technologies like React, Typescript, Bootstrap) and Django-based backends.

· Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using Golang,Java,Python,Django,gRPC with protocol buffers, Kafka and Apache Spark with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures.

· Strong background in leading UI development efforts, particularly with JavaScript based frameworks ensuring a seamless user experience.

· Experience leading web application development using micro-frontend architecture with client-side composition methods.

· Experience leading the integration of micro-frontend applications with a large single page application.

· Experience building architecture, design patterns, reliability, security and scaling of new and existing web applications.

· Expertise leading and contributing to event driven microservices using Kafka and Apache spark

· Expertise in data model design on relational databases like PostgreSQL and No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB

· Understanding of existing monitoring concepts and tooling

· Understanding of DevOps Concepts and Cloud Architecture

· Understanding of Azure platform and its native services

· Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD)

· Knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms

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

· Strong problem-solving ability

· Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

· Willingness to contribute and lead across all layers of the stack, including UI, backend and DevOps based on the needs of the team.

Experience

· 8+ years of professional software development experience and/or solutions engineering experience with technologies such as Java, TypeScript, ReactJS,BoostrapJS, Python, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform. Must have recent hands-on experience with developing or single page web applications.

· 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

· Preferred experience with capacity management within hybrid cloud.

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.

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.