Hybrid Staff Engineer – Full Stack Applications, FinOps

at GEICO

• Job title: Staff Engineer – Full Stack Applications, FinOps
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $110,000 - $230,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Apache, AWS, Azure, Bootstrap, Cassandra, Cloud, Django, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, GRPC, Java, JavaScript, Kafka, Kubernetes, Microservices, MongoDB, Postgres, Python, React, SDLC, Spark, SQL, Terraform, TypeScript, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bethesda, United States

About the role

• Staff Engineer developing full stack applications for GEICO's transformation to a tech organization. Leading engineering efforts across UI and back-end systems within a hybrid cloud environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and thought leadership across multiple layers of the stack, focusing on full-stack web application development and ensuring the integration of UI, micro-services, and backend systems.
• Work closely with product leaders, other engineers and partner teams to understand product requirements, build a technical backlog, and develop solutions that align with product vision.
• Lead the development of UI using React, Typescript and Bootstrap on a Django framework while also contributing to the Architecture and development of microservices using Golang, Python, Django and Kafka.
• Design and implement loosely coupled, scalable micro-services.
• Own and drive one to two service areas, being accountable for their successful delivery, from requirement analysis, design through to production, and ensuring they meet performance, scalability and reliability standards.
• Act as a role model and mentor to senior and junior engineers, guiding them in understanding the architecture, design and implementation of systems.
• Maintain excellent communication with Partner teams and leads, articulating technical implementations for various stakeholders, ensuring alignment across teams.
• Proactively explore unknown product requirements and design solutions that meet evolving needs, contributing to the continuous improvement of our platform.
• Leverage your experience in deploying web applications in Kubernetes (k8s) environments, ensuring reliable interaction with backend services and seamless integration with cloud and on-premises systems.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience and/or solutions engineering experience with technologies such as Java, TypeScript, ReactJS, BootstrapJS, Python, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform.
• 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.
• Preferred experience with capacity management within hybrid cloud.
• Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack web applications, with a strong focus on front-end technologies like React, Typescript, Bootstrap) and Django-based backends.
• Proven expertise in designing and developing micro-services using Golang, Java, Python, Django, gRPC with protocol buffers, Kafka and Apache Spark with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures.
• Strong background in leading UI development efforts, particularly with JavaScript based frameworks ensuring a seamless user experience.
• Experience leading web application development using micro-frontend architecture with client-side composition methods.
• Experience leading the integration of micro-frontend applications with a large single page application.
• Experience building architecture, design patterns, reliability, security and scaling of new and existing web applications.
• Expertise leading and contributing to event driven microservices using Kafka and Apache Spark.
• Expertise in data model design on relational databases like PostgreSQL and No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB.
• Understanding of existing monitoring concepts and tooling.
• Understanding of DevOps Concepts and Cloud Architecture.
• Understanding of Azure platform and its native services.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD).
• Knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms.
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication).
• Strong problem-solving ability.
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
• Willingness to contribute and lead across all layers of the stack, including UI, backend and DevOps based on the needs of the team.

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.