**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 Senior Staff Engineer to build & scale next generation file transfer and file sharing platform to cater file sharing services within GEICO & between GEICO & its trusted external partners. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine experiences for our customers.
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.
**This is a Hybrid role 2x a week **
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will:
· Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to design, build, productionize an enterprise application
· Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains
· Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
· Influence and educate leadership at all levels
· Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
· Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning
· Collaborate with application teams and business partners to standardize file sharing practices. Partner with them to scale product from 0 to 1
Qualifications
· Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and development of multi-tier distributed systems.
· Fluent in at least two OOP languages such as Java, Go, Python, C++, etc.
· Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
· 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, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)
· Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI/SonarQube and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible will be big plus
· Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus
· Familiarity with other messaging and event solutions like Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hub is a plus.
Experience
· 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering
· 8+ years of experience in building scalable 3 tier production application touching millions of customers.
· 6+ years of experience with open-source frameworks is desired
· 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure and DevOps practices.
Education
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
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Annual Salary
$110,000.00 - $260,000.00
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.