Staff Engineer presso 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.

About the Team

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.

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 Title: Staff Engineer – Java

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

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Annual Salary

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.

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 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 your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.