Hybrid Senior Staff Engineer – Java, NoSQL, Cassandra, Microservices

at GEICO

• Job title: Senior Staff Engineer – Java, NoSQL, Cassandra, Microservices
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $115,000 - $260,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Distributed Systems, Java, Python, SDLC, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Palo Alto, United States

About the role

• Senior Staff Engineer driving innovation in document management systems at GEICO. Leading technical strategies and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance engineering capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Focus on multiple areas in the document management domain; develop and execute technical software development strategy
• Act as the functional tech lead to for the cross-functional product development team; and be responsible and accountable for the quality, reliability and performance of the solutions
• Coordinate and collaborate with product managers, engineering team members and customers to solve complex problems, ensure the seamless integration and alignment of solutions with organizational goals
• Leverage open-source frameworks and embrace the cloud native development paradigm
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the team, and Influence and educate leadership at all levels
• Always push for engineering excellence; Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Requirements

• Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, Golang, Python or C# including object-oriented design
• Extensive knowledge and experience of building data intensive large-scale distributed systems with focus on fault-tolerance and throughput
• Experience building products of micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Experience building the architecture and design of new and current systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate complete technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Fluency in DevOps concepts and best practices in CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as a code
• Experience with application performance monitoring tools and performance assessments
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Experience with 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, operations, real-time communication)

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.