Hybrid Senior Staff Engineer – Payments Platform

at GEICO

• Job title: Senior Staff Engineer – Payments Platform
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $120,000 - $260,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Distributed Systems, Java, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Palo Alto, United States

About the role

• Senior Staff Engineer leading technical roadmap and innovation for Payments Platform at GEICO. Collaborating across teams to deliver scalable, resilient systems while mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, development and delivery of capabilities on our Payments Platform, meeting goals for security, resilience, compliance and correctness.
• Be a role model in leveraging AI to increase velocity, while raising the bar on engineering and operational excellence.
• Drive improvements to practices and culture for a high performing engineering organization.
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies, evaluating their potential impact on the payments engineering domain and making recommendations for adoption.
• Triage and resolve service disruptions and build industry standard mechanism for prevention and self-healing.
• Influence and educate technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels.

Requirements

• Proven track record of designing and delivering payments, financial or highly regulated systems.
• Understanding of data privacy, compliance, and governance practices in the payments industry.
• Deep hands-on experience with distributed systems and cloud-native architecture.
• Strong analytical skills, a product mindset and ownership to identify problems, understand motivations, create practical solutions, and drive progress.
• Strong problem-solving, leadership and collaboration skills.
• 12+ years in software development with Go or Java frameworks.
• 10+ years in architecture and system design with data-intensive applications.
• 8+ years with cloud-native systems, CNCF frameworks and distributed data stores.
• Experience with payment systems and financial reporting is highly preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.

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.