Senior Staff Engineer – Financial Substantiation Platform

GEICO

Senior Staff Engineer developing scalable financial substantiation platforms within GEICO's tech organization. Provide architectural leadership and build secure software solutions for financial data verification.

Posted 5/3/2026full-timeBethesda • Maryland, Texas, Virginia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $120,000 - $260,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGRPCJavaMicroservicesSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide technical and architectural leadership for substantiation and reconciliation services, APIs, and related data paths.
Build scalable, secure, highly available software for matching, exceptions, and financial controls.
Drive modernization initiatives—including evolution away from legacy reconciliation and financial systems.
Own solutions end-to-end—design through production—including quality, reliability, performance, and observability.
Align with Product, Finance, Compliance, and Treasury on requirements and operational outcomes.
Mentor engineers and foster a culture of continuous learning; influence leadership at multiple levels through clear articulation of tradeoffs and roadmaps.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years software development with staff/principal-level impact.
8+ years leading architecture and large initiatives with cross-functional technical leadership.
6+ years cloud-native / distributed systems in production.
4+ years major cloud platform.
3+ years high-volume data, reconciliation, or financial/payments/ledger-adjacent systems.
Fluency and specialization with at least one modern language such as Java, C#, or Go.
Microservices / SOA, REST and gRPC (or comparable APIs), solid SQL and relational design at scale.
Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD, containers, IaC, and production DevOps/observability practices.
Proven architecture and design for distributed, data-heavy systems; strong production troubleshooting.
Excellent communication with technical and non-technical partners; Agile delivery experience.
Expertise in complex problem-solving autonomy, including troubleshooting critical production issues and devising creative, scalable technical solutions under pressure.

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

software developmentarchitecturecloud-native systemsdistributed systemsJavaC#GomicroservicesSQLDevOps

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringcommunicationproblem-solvinginfluencecontinuous learningcollaborationarticulation of tradeoffscreativityautonomy