Distinguished Engineer – Java, API, Software Development, Microservices

GEICO

full-time

Posted on: 10/11/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Palo Alto • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $130,000 - $300,000 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 teams and the tech organization to solve our toughest problems.
Deliver high-scale and high-quality data architecture, especially legacy-to-modern platform transitions .
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 driven system migration.
Deploy applications in a hybrid cloud environment utilizing Kubernetes, various data stores, and a variety of cloud native tools and services.
Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community.

15+ years of experience in full-stack web development (C#/Java/Python/GO), with expertise in client-side and server-side frameworks.
8+ years of experience working with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and private cloud technologies (OpenStack).
6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science , Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.

Benefits

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.

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