Senior Staff Engineer

About 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 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.

GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low-latency platforms and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine experiences for our customers. Our Senior Staff Engineer is a technical leader and member of the engineering staff, working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. 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, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will:

• Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to engineering teams
• Own complete solution across its entire life cycle
• Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, stakeholders, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of technical solution
• Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
• Utilize programming languages like Kotlin, Swift, JavaScript, TypeScript, Dart
• Mentor team members professionally to help them realize their full potential
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Qualifications

• Expertise and specialization in at least two modern programming languages such as Kotlin, Swift, JavaScript, TypeScript, Dart
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Knowledge of dependency injection, state management, and reactive programming (Streams, Coroutines, RX)
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
• Deep understanding of modern architecture and design patterns
• Strong understanding of testing strategies and debugging practices
• Passion for solving complex pr