Senior Staff Engineer – Java, Migration

GEICO

Distinguished Engineer at GEICO providing technical leadership and innovative solutions in system migration. Leading high-quality data architecture and mentoring teams in a hybrid work environment.

Posted 4/17/2026full-timeBethesda • Maryland, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $120,000 - $300,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheAWSAzureCassandraCloudDockerETLGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLGRPCJavaKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesMySQLNoSQLOpenStackPostgresPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
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.
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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.
Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap.
Experience leading and building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
Deep knowledge of ETL, SQL, bitemporal data modeling and temporal databases.
Experience with API-based migration.
Experience with shadow mode, dual-write, and deconversion strategies.
Strong understanding of data observability, traceability, and multi-faceted testing.
Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using graphQL, gRPC, Java, Python, Kafka, with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures.
Proven experience designing and delivering highly-resilient event-driven and messaging based solutions at scale with minimal latency.
Deep hands-on experience in building complex SAAS systems in large scale business focused systems, with great knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes.
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, with a strong focus on SAAS products / platforms.
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.

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#PythonGOSQLNoSQLgraphQLgRPCKafkaETL

Soft Skills

technical leadershipcollaborationmentoringinfluencingcoachingproblem-solvingcommunicationdesign thinkingexperimentationadaptability