Staff Engineer – JAVA

GEICO

Staff Engineer in JAVA at GEICO focusing on key engineering areas and mentoring teams. Design, implement, and lead solutions across the engineering lifecycle for mission-critical applications.

Posted 6/14/2026full-timeNew York City • Maryland, New York, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $110,000 - $230,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheAWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGradleGraphQLJavaJenkinsJMeterKafkaKubernetesNoSQLOpen SourceSplunk

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Focus on a few key areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams
Own complete solution across its entire life cycle
Design and implement messaging and UI applications using the Java platform and Open Source frameworks
Collaborate with engineering team to define the overall system architecture, ensuring scalability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization
Act as a technical and thought leader for domains like Messaging, GraphQL API, or data streaming
Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications
Implement monitoring and logging solutions to track system performance and troubleshoot issues
Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years of professional software development experience
3+ years of experience with architecture and design
3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
4+ years of experience in open source frameworks
Fluency and Specialization with modern languages such as Java, including object-oriented design
Experience in building products using micro-services oriented architecture and extensible APIs
Experience containerizing applications using Docker or Kubernetes (AKS preferred)
Experience designing and implementing performance testing with tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner
Familiarity with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
Understanding of Monitoring Portals such as Splunk or Application Insights
Understanding of Security Protocols & Products: Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth
Strong familiarity with GraphQL web services
Understanding of CI/CD tooling like Jenkins, Gradle, and Artifactory
Strong problem-solving ability
Hands-on experience with real-time event-steaming platforms such as Apache Kafka
Familiarity with NoSQL and Graph databases
Experience writing unit tests using common testing frameworks and actively contributing to code quality

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive pay
Benefits
Flexibility to support your well-being and future
Personalized development programs
Mentorship
Certification assistance

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Hard Skills & Tools

Javaobject-oriented designmicro-services architectureextensible APIsDockerKubernetesperformance testingGraphQLreal-time event-streamingunit testing

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationmentoringproblem-solvinginfluencingcommunication