Hybrid Distinguished Engineer – API, Software Development, Microservices

at GEICO

• Job title: Distinguished Engineer – API, Software Development, Microservices
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $120,000 - $300,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Apache, AWS, Azure, Cassandra, Cloud, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, GraphQL, GRPC, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, Microservices, MySQL, NoSQL, OpenStack, Postgres, Python, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Palo Alto, United States

About the role

• Distinguished Engineer leading technical roadmap for API-first design and microservices. Collaborating in a hybrid cloud environment to innovate and enhance systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise.
• Collaborate with team members and across the tech organization to solve our toughest problems.
• Deliver High-Quality services and software for a variety of domains.
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions.
• Utilize your expertise in designing and developing API’s and microservices using graphQL, gRPC, Java, Python, Kafka, with a deep understanding of API first design.
• Utilize programming languages like Java, C#, or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
• Deploy applications in a hybrid cloud environment utilizing Kubernetes, various data stores, and a variety of cloud native tools and services.
• Work on End-to-End solutions that may span front-end through API tiers and Back-End domain 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.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in full-stack web development (C#/Java/Python/GO), with expertise in client-side and server-side frameworks.
• 8+ years of experience working with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and private cloud technologies (OpenStack).
• 6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks.
• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap.
• Proven expertise in API first engineering approaches, service orchestration, event driven architecture and real-time APIs including federated graphQL and gRPC implementations.
• Ability to manage schema evolution, versioning and high-performance API driven systems.
• Proven experience designing and delivering highly resilient event-driven and messaging based solutions at scale with minimal latency.
• Deep hands-on experience in building complex SAAS systems in large scale business focused systems, with great knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes.
• Fluency and Specialization with Java and at least one other modern language such as C#, C++, or Python including object-oriented design.
• Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development.
• Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Cosmos, Cassandra. Apache Trino etc.
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
• Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Experience in implementing security protocols across services and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth.

Benefits

• 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.