Staff Engineer

Staff Engineer

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That's why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

Join the Claims Platform Engineering - Communications team and revolutionize how insurance claims communications work. We build the multi-channel communications infrastructure (letters, emails, texts, fax) that connects adjusters with customers, enabling seamless interactions throughout the claims journey.

Strategic Projects Examples:

• Next-Gen Communications Rules Engine: Build a sophisticated low-code/no-code platform enabling business users to design automated communication workflows. Tackle challenges in event-driven architecture, rule evaluation, workflow orchestration, and intuitive UI design for complex logic.
• Dynamic Letter Generation Platform: An intelligent document generation system producing personalized, compliant correspondence at scale.
• Gen AI-Powered Communications: Leverage generative AI to create personalized user communications including text messaging, email, and letter generation, ensuring tone, compliance, and customer experience excellence.

Why This Role:

• Build cloud-native systems with modern technologies (Java 21, Spring Boot 3.x, Kafka, Temporal)
• Direct impact on millions of customers and thousands of adjusters daily
• Shape architecture and engineering practices for strategic platforms
• Work on complex, interesting problems spanning distributed systems, orchestration, and integration
• Collaborate across Product, UX, and business stakeholders

If you're passionate about building impactful systems that transform customer and employee experiences, let's talk.

Job Summary:

We are seeking an exceptional Staff Engineer to provide technical architecture and leadership within a team and across multiple projects. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Java and cloud-native architecture, consistently lead development of production-ready complex systems, and influence technical direction across the team. Experience with web application development is required to support internal tooling needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Architecture & Leadership
  • Provide technical architecture and leadership within a team and across multiple projects
  • Consistently lead development of production-ready complex systems involving multiple subsystems
  • Drive technical direction through informed decisions on architecture, design patterns, and technology choices
  • Establish technical standards and patterns that improve engineering effectiveness
• System Design & Development
  • Lead design reviews and architectural decisions
  • Architect cloud-native solutions with deep consideration for distributed systems, reliability, and observability
  • Build RESTful APIs and microservices accounting for security, compliance, and performance
  • Develop and maintain internal web applications to support engineering and business needs
• Operational Excellence
  • Integrate comprehensive observability (metrics, distributed tracing, structured logging, monitoring)
  • Lead post-incident reviews and implement systemic improvements
  • Build automated testing, deployment, and rollback strategies for safe, frequent releases
  • Create operational runbooks, participate in on-call rotations
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Product Mindset
  • Partner with Product Management, DevOps, QA, and business stakeholders on complex initiatives
  • Translate technical concepts effectively for non-technical executives and stakeholders
  • Lead technical planning within Agile processes, driving clarity on scope and timelines
  • Build consensus across teams on technical approaches and standards
• Leadership & Mentorship
  • Mentor engineers, accelerating their technical growth and decision-making
  • Set engineering best practices through code reviews, documentation, and technical guidance
  • Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and operational ownership

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 7-10 years of professional software development with 2+ years in technical leadership
• Deep expertise in Java (Java 17+, Java 21 preferred) and Spring Boot 3.x ecosystem
• Expert knowledge of microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Strong experience with observability, SRE practices, and operational excellence
• Proven track record leading complex technical initiatives across multiple projects
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD, and infrastructure as code
• Experience building web applications and proficiency with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Willingness to learn and work with frontend technologies as needed for internal tools
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and drive engineering standards
• Excellent communication skills with ability to influence audiences at all levels
• Track record of mentoring engineers and elevating team capabilities
• Strong product mindset with focus on delivering business value
• Experience making high-impact technical decisions under ambiguity
• Reactive programming, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous systems
• Experience leading technical initiatives spanning multiple teams/projects

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, Vue.js)
• Deep expertise in distributed tracing, log aggregation, and alerting systems
• Security best practices and compliance in cloud environments
• Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and platform engineering
• Proficiency with AI coding assistants and driving team adoption
• Experience with A/B testing, feature flags, and data-driven development
• Contributions to open-source projects or technical thought leadership
• Track record of successful system migrations or large-scale refactoring
• Experience with insurance or financial services industry

Annual Salary: $115,000.00 - $230,000.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate's work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life's twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we're constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We're an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers' expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you'll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people's lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You'll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance