GEICO

Staff Engineer – Payment Platform

GEICO

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

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

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Salary

💰 $110,000 - $230,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AzureCassandraCloudDockerElasticSearchJavaKubernetesMongoDBMySQLNoSQLPostgresPythonSQL

About the role

  • Lead Payment Platform Innovation: Architect and build scalable, secure payment systems, integrating real-time fraud detection, tokenization, and batch processing capabilities.
  • Harness Data for Impact: Design data pipelines and analytics frameworks to monitor transaction health, detect fraud patterns, and optimize payment performance.
  • Drive Strategy: Partner with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to define and execute a technical roadmap for payment modernization and analytics.
  • Ensure Reliability: Own the performance, security, and usability of payment platforms, ensuring 99.9% uptime and compliance with industry standards.
  • Mentor & Inspire: Coach engineers, share best practices, and influence stakeholders to elevate payment and data engineering expertise.
  • Support Operations: Provide on-call support for payment systems, troubleshoot issues, and champion CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience designing complex systems, data pipelines, and architectures, with expertise in scaling, performance tuning, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Deep expertise in SQL & open-source databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, etc.) for transaction and analytics use cases.
  • Fluency and Specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design.
  • Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework.
  • 10 + years in software development, platform architecture, or infrastructure management, ideally with payment or fintech systems.
  • 4+ years working with open-source frameworks.
  • 3+ years in system architecture and design, preferably for payment or data platforms.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent 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.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
payment systemsdata pipelinesanalytics frameworksscalabilityperformance tuningcontainerizationSQLopen-source databasesNoSQL databasesobject-oriented design
Soft skills
mentoringcoachingstakeholder influencebest practices sharing
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in computer scienceBachelor's degree in Information Systems
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