At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.Position Summary   GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help create our next generation, cloud native Content Management System using the latest frameworks and technologies available. Be a part of a tech transformation where engineering excellence, continuous improvement, and a culture of psychological safety are paramount. Position Description Our Staff Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide friction-less experiences to our customers and maintaining the highest standards of protection and availability. Key engineering responsibilities will focus on the development and continued maintenance of several web applications and their supporting architecture, including both customer-facing experiences as well as internally developed web tools to facilitate content management.  Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge bringing forward a full stack mindset, work duties can range from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between. Position Responsibilities As a Staff Engineer, you will:  <ul><li>Scope, design, and build scalable and resilient software solutions amongst diverse engineering groups</li><li>Utilize programming languages like JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Objective C, C#, Dart, Python, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services</li><li>Perform engineering design evaluations and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization</li><li>Manage day-to-day activities of the engineering teams overseeing execution of software development projects against delivery commitments</li><li>Seek ways to simplify and standardize designs, operations, and deployment plans, focusing on reducing complexity and providing performance, agility, and scalability</li><li>Responsible for production operations support and ensuring availability, stability, and performance of production applications</li><li>Collaborate with cross-functional organizations throughout the entire software lifecycle to ensure technology and roadmap alignment</li><li>Manage projects and processes to keep the team organized, efficient, and optimally running</li><li>Set, manage, and report KPIs to measure progress and facilitate data-driven decision making </li><li>Responsible for evaluating and driving new technology and Open-Source software considerations</li><li>Research and guide architectural level changes that support and enhance application performance, security, and our drive to innovate </li><li>Mentor and manage engineering peers to help share the necessary skills to perform their jobs and develop their professional careers</li></ul> Qualifications  <ul><li>Strong understanding of headless CMS architectures and open-source solutions with experience in JavaScript, React, PostgreSQL and NGINX</li><li>Experience with modern front-end frameworks, likes of React, NodeJs, Angular, including hooks, state management, and component architecture</li><li>Strong background in delivering digital - web products at scale</li><li>Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts, platforms, and technologies</li><li>Advanced understanding of monitoring concepts and tooling</li><li>Ability to prioritize and drive results based on business value to the organization</li><li>Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)</li><li>Experience designing flexible, scalable, high-availability Cloud native applications</li><li>Experience architecting and designing new and current systems</li><li>Experience delivering CMS solutions using Contentful, Strapi, Storyblok, or AWS Amplify is desired</li><li>Strong understanding of CI/CD, Release Management, and Configuration Management processes tooling</li><li>Understanding of data modeling and AI concepts is desired</li><li>Strong critical thinking, decision making, and problem-solving skills</li><li>Excellent verbal/written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate to both senior leadership and highly technical personnel</li><li>Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment</li><li>Proficiency in crafting prompts using AI tools for software development tasks.</li></ul>Experience  <ul><li>8+ years of professional software development experience and/or solutions engineering experience with technologies such as Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform. Must have recent hands-on experience with developing or designing cloud solutions</li><li>4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks </li><li>3+ years of experience with architecture and design </li><li>3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service </li></ul> Education  <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience </li></ul>  Annual Salary$110,000.00 - $230,000.00The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.  At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.  The GEICO Pledge:Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind.  You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.<ul><li>Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.</li><li>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.</li><li>Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.</li><li>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.</li></ul>The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.

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