Staff Engineer - React (Commercial Service Platform) REMOTE
Job title: Staff Engineer - React (Commercial Service Platform) REMOTE in Chevy Chase, MD at GEICO
Company: GEICO
Job description: Position Summary
Geico is seeking a highly skilled Staff Full Stack Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications, especially optimize and resolve performance issues in our commercial insurance tech platforms. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.Position Description
Our Staff Software Engineer works with our Senior Staff and Senior Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities.The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of both front-end and back-end technologies and will take a hands-on approach to drive improvements in system performance, scalability, and reliability. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement solutions that enhance our platform’s ability to meet growing business demands.Position Responsibilities
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will:
- Design, develop, and optimize high-performance, scalable web applications.
- Lead the resolution of critical performance bottlenecks across the full stack, ensuring seamless integration with backend services and cloud/on-prem infrastructure.
- Perform root cause analysis of performance issues and implement monitoring, profiling, and optimization strategies.
- Lead efforts to implement microservices architecture and integrate with cloud technologies such as AWS or Azure.
- Develop and drive the tech strategy for the Commercial Insurance organization, aligning it with the organization's business goals and objectives.
- Provide thought leadership in application performance, staying ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies.
- Lead the design and architecture of resilient and scalable systems, considering both on-premises and cloud-based solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate performance best practices into the development and deployment processes.
- Be a hands-on advocate for software engineering and SDLC best practices (technical review documents, architecture, software development, software reviews, testing, production readiness reviews, etc.).
- 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
- 8+ years of experience in full-stack development, with a focus on performance optimization.
- Proficiency in modern programming languages such as Java, C#, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and experience with frameworks like React and Angular.
- Strong knowledge of microservices, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Solid experience in database design (SQL and NoSQL) and optimization strategies.
- Familiarity with performance monitoring and troubleshooting tools.
- Understanding of networking, caches, key/value stores, load balancing, global load balancing, queues, DNS and CDN
- Experience with infrastructure automation, tooling, and configuration management frameworks (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Pulumi, Terraform, etc.)
- Familiarity with cloud security best practices and compliance standards
- Excellent leadership skills with a passion for mentoring and fostering professional growth
- Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a keen eye for detail and a passion for driving operational excellence
- Visionary thinker with the ability to anticipate future challenges and opportunities
- Exceptional leadership and communication skills
- Proven track record of successfully leading and building software in large and complex organizations
- 8+ years of professional experience in software development
- 6+ years of experience with architecture and design
- 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
- 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
- 2+ years of experience with Generative AI/LLM based applications and agentic systems
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
- 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.
- In office and remote opportunities, as well as our signature GEICO Flex program, offering the ability to work remotely for up to four weeks per year.
Expected salary: $115000 - 230000 per year
Location: Chevy Chase, MD
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