Staff Engineer - Data Exchange Platform (REMOTE)

A Staff Software Engineer works with GEICO engineering teams 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 development of a data exchange platform for GEICO's Insurance Marketplace, which enables scalable and extensible integrations with internal and external partners. You will lead the strategy and execution of the technical roadmap of this foundational sub-area of one of GEICO's fastest growing businesses. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical expertise ranging from front-end UIs through back-end large-scale distributed systems.

Position Responsibilities:

As a Staff Engineer, you will:

• Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams

• Collaborate across team members and across the tech organization to solve our toughest problems

• Develop and execute technical software development strategy

• Lead the high-level and low-level designs of a foundational area of the insurance marketplace – particularly around data exchange with internal and external partners -- and be responsible and accountable for the quality, reliability and performance of the solutions

• Write and test product or system development code

• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.

• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

• 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

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans

• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning

Qualifications:

• Fluency and specialization with at least two modern OOP languages such as C#, Java, C++, or Python including object-oriented design
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development, with a strong focus on SAAS products / platforms.
• Proven experience designing and delivering highly-resilient event-driven and messaging based solutions at scale with minimal latency.
• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• 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 existing Operational tools available on platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP
• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
• Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible will be big plus

Experience

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience