Staff Engineer – Full-Stack, API, Software Development, Microservices

GEICO

full-time

Posted on: 10/11/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Chevy Chase • California, Maryland, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $115,000 - $230,000 per year

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About the role

Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise.
Collaborate across team members and across the tech organization to solve our toughest problems.
Deliver High-Quality services and software for a variety of domains.
Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions.
Utilize your expertise in designing and developing API’s and microservices using graphQL, gRPC, Java, Python, Kafka, with a deep understanding of API first design.
Utilize programming languages like Java, C#, or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
Deploy applications in a hybrid cloud environment utilizing Kubernetes, various data stores, and a variety of cloud native tools and services.
Work on End-to-End solutions that may span front-end through API tiers and Back-End domain services.
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.

8+ years full-stack development experience with expertise in client-side and server-side frameworks.
5+ years of experience with architecture and design.
5+ years of experience in open-source frameworks.
4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service.
Fluency and Specialization with Java and at least one other modern language such as C#, C++, or Python including object-oriented design.
Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development.
Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. and strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Cosmos, Cassandra, Apache Trino etc.
Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
Experience in implementing security protocols across services and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth.

Benefits

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.

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