Staff Engineer – Full Stack Applications

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 maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement. We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Staff Engineer – Full Stack within our Capacity and workload management organization. This role is within the capacity management platform team, and its goal is to lead the UI and backend development of full stack platform to address the infrastructure demand, capacity and quota needs of a hybrid cloud environment. The platform would be built using open-source technologies and would b [... source excerpt omitted ...] end UI and back-end systems development+ and all points in between and is willing to lead and contribute across the stack depending on the needs of the team. As a Staff Engineer, you will: · Provide technical and thought leadership across multiple layers of the stack, focusing on fullstack web application development and ensuring the integration of UI, microservices and backend systems. Work closely with product leaders, other engineers and partner teams to understand product requirements, build a technical backlog, and develop solutions that align with product vision. · Lead the development of UI using React, Typescript and Bootstrap on a Django framework while also contribu [... source excerpt omitted ...] ent loosely coupled, scalable microservices · Own and drive one to two service areas, being accountable for their successful delivery, from requirement analysus,design through to production, and ensuring they meet performance, scalability and reliability standards. · Act as a role model and mentor to senior and junior engineers, guiding them in understanding the architecture, design and implementation of systems. · Maintain excellent communication with Parter teams and leads, articulating technical implementations for various stakeholders, ensuring alignment across teams. · Proactively explore unknown product requirements and design solutions that meet evolving needs, contribut