Senior Staff Engineer – Java

GEICO

Senior Staff Engineer leading full-stack development and technical strategy at GEICO. Collaborating across teams and enhancing engineering capabilities in a hybrid environment.

Posted 4/17/2026full-timeMaryland, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $105,000 - $260,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularApacheAWSAzureCassandraCloudDockerFlutterGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLGRPCJavaJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesMySQLNoSQLPostgresPythonReactSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 programming languages like Java, C#, or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes.
Work on End-to-End solutions that may span front-end implementations (Flutter, Angular, React) 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. Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years full-stack development experience (Java/ C#/ Python/GO), with expertise in client-side and server-side frameworks.
8+ years of experience with architecture and design.
6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks.
4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service.
Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap.
Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using graphQL, gRPC, Java, Python, Kafka, with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures.
Deep hands-on experience in building complex SAAS systems in large scale business focused systems.
Fluency and Specialization with at least two modern OOP languages such as Java, C#, C++, or Python including object-oriented design.
Familiarity and comfort with front-end technologies as well as back-end, including technologies like React, Flutter, Angular, Html, Javascript.
Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Cosmos, Cassandra, Apache Trino etc.
In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms.
Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaC#PythonGOSQLNoSQLDockerKubernetesGraphQLgRPC

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcollaborationmentoringinfluencingcoachingproblem-solvingcommunicationprocess improvementdesign thinkingadaptability