Staff Engineer - Full Stack / Front End Focus - GEICO.com
GEICO
Location
🇺🇸 Bethesda, United States
Type
full_time
Salary
$100k–$260k
Posted
2w ago
Job Description
Why Join GEICO? 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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide. Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. 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.
Position Summary
GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. In this role you will help us create the elevated and superior version of www.geico.com working specifically to modernize the frameworks and technologies. In this role you will be a part of a technical transformation where engineering excellence, continuous improvement, AI automation, and a culture of psychological safety are paramount. Position Description Our Staff Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide friction-less experiences to our customers and maintaining the highest standards of protection and availability. Key engineering
responsibilities
will focus on the development and continued maintenance of several web applications and their supporting architecture, including both customer-facing experiences as well as internally developed web tools to facilitate content management. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge bringing forward a full stack mindset, work duties can range from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between. Position
Responsibilities
As a Staff Engineer, you will: • Evolve Geico.com and its supporting systems with a focus on speed to market, security, 24x7 availability, and user engagement. • Scope, design, and build scalable and resilient software solutions amongst diverse engineering groups • Utilize object-oriented languages, SQL based databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Cloud hosting tools and services • Perform engineering design evaluations and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization • Manage day-to-day activities of the engineering teams overseeing execution of software development projects against delivery commitments • Seek ways to simplify and standardize designs, operations, and deployment plans, focusing on reducing complexity and providing performance, agility, and scalability • Responsible for production operations support and ensuring availability, stability, and performance of production applications • Collaborate with cross-functional organizations throughout the entire software lifecycle to ensure technology and roadmap alignment • Manage projects and processes to keep the team organized, efficient, and optimally running • Set, manage, and report KPIs to measure progress and facilitate data-driven decision making • Responsible for evaluating and driving new technology and Open-Source software considerations • Research and guide architectural level changes that support and enhance application performance, security, and our drive to innovate • Mentor and manage engineering peers to help share the necessary skills to perform their jobs and develop their professional careers