Staff Engineer – Partner Platform
| Company | Geico |
|---|---|
| Location | Seattle, WA, USA, San Francisco, CA, USA, San Jose, CA, USA, Bethesda, MD, USA |
| Salary | $115000 – $230000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible will be big plus