Staff Engineer - .NET at Geico in Bethesda, MD

Staff Engineer - .NET Location: 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. 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 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. Position Responsibilities As a Staff Engineer, you will: Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams Own complete solution across its entire life cycle Partners with engineering teams, data scientists, and product leaders todesign, build, and scale AI-powered capabilities that automate workflows,improve decision-making, and elevate user experience. You will alsomentor engineers who want to learn AI, LLMs, and agent-baseddevelopment, fostering a culture of learning, curiosity, and innovation. Use knowledge graphs to enhance reasoning, entity relationships, contextretrieval, and multi-step workflows. Drive innovation by exploring new models, frameworks, and reasoningtechniques and applying them creatively to real-world challenges. Lead through technical influence by providing guidance on architecture,experimentation, and deployment across multiple teams. Run rigorous experimentation and evaluation including hypothesisdefinition, measurement, validation, and iterative improvement inproduction environments. Establish and model engineering best practices for reliability,interpretability, safety, governance, and monitoring of production AIsystems. Influence and build vision with product managers, team members,customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems forbuilding enterprise-class business applications Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality ofengineering across the organization Utilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-orientedlanguages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration servicesincluding Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realizetheir full potential Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams Qualifications Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such asJava, Python or C# including object-oriented design 8 or more years of professional software engineering or applied machine learning experience, including 2 or more years working with Generative AIor LLM-based systems in production. Strong hands-on experience with Python and modern AI frameworks suchas LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, andOpenAI or Anthropic APIs. Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating production AIsystems including agentic workflows and intelligent automation features. Proven experience building scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainableproducts and systems that run reliably in production. Strong understanding of agent architectures, workflow orchestration,retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, and knowledge graphintegration. Ability to collaborate deeply across teams and co-create solutions withengineers, product managers, and domain experts. Experience mentoring engineers and helping others grow in AI, LLM, an agent-based system design. A history of delivering measurable business outcomes from AI systems. Strong competency in distributed systems, service design, performanceoptimization, and reliability engineering. Experience in building products using micro-services oriented architectureand extensible REST APIs Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, designpatterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle(task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) Risk assessment Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment Experience 8+ years of professional software development experience with C#, Java or any object-oriented programming language, and building advanced Generative AI capabilities including domain-tuned LLMs, vector reasoning techniques, or specialized retrieval architectures 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, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience 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. 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. Additional Locations: Palo Alto, CA