Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GEICO is a leading insurance company dedicated to providing quality coverage to millions of customers. They are seeking a Staff Engineer – Full Stack to lead the development of high-performance applications within their capacity management platform team, focusing on both UI and backend systems in a hybrid cloud environment.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical and thought leadership across multiple layers of the stack, focusing on fullstack web application development and ensuring the integration of UI, microservices and backend systems
- Work closely with product leaders, other engineers and partner teams to understand product requirements, build a technical backlog, and develop solutions that align with product vision
- Lead the development of UI using React, Typescript and Bootstrap on a Django framework while also contributing to the Architecture and development of microservices using Golang,Python, Django and Kafka
- Design and implement loosely coupled, scalable microservices
- Own and drive one to two service areas, being accountable for their successful delivery, from requirement analysus,design through to production, and ensuring they meet performance, scalability and reliability standards
- Act as a role model and mentor to senior and junior engineers, guiding them in understanding the architecture, design and implementation of systems
- Maintain excellent communication with Parter teams and leads, articulating technical implementations for various stakeholders, ensuring alignment across teams
- Proactively explore unknown product requirements and design solutions that meet evolving needs, contributing to the continuous improvement of our platform
- Leverage your experience in deploying wen applications in Kubernetes (k8s) environments, ensuring reliable interaction with backend services and seamless integration with cloud and on-premises systems
Skills
- Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack web applications, with a strong focus on front-end technologies like React, Typescript, Bootstrap and Django-based backends
- Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using Golang, Java, Python, Django, gRPC with protocol buffers, Kafka and Apache Spark with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures
- Strong background in leading UI development efforts, particularly with JavaScript based frameworks ensuring a seamless user experience
- Experience leading web application development using micro-frontend architecture with client-side composition methods
- Experience leading the integration of micro-frontend applications with a large single page application
- Experience building architecture, design patterns, reliability, security and scaling of new and existing web applications
- Expertise leading and contributing to event driven microservices using Kafka and Apache Spark
- Expertise in data model design on relational databases like PostgreSQL and No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB
- Understanding of existing monitoring concepts and tooling
- Understanding of DevOps Concepts and Cloud Architecture
- Understanding of Azure platform and its native services
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD)
- Knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
- Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
- Willingness to contribute and lead across all layers of the stack, including UI, backend and DevOps based on the needs of the team
- 8+ years of professional software development experience and/or solutions engineering experience with technologies such as Java, TypeScript, ReactJS, BootstrapJS, Python, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform. Must have recent hands-on experience with developing or single page web applications
- 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
- 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
- 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
- Preferred experience with capacity management within hybrid cloud
Education Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.
Benefits
- 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.
Company Overview
GEICO, Government Employees Insurance Company, has been providing affordable auto insurance since 1936. It is a sub-organization of Berkshire Hathaway. It was founded in 1936, and is headquartered in Chase, Maryland, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.geico.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
GEICO has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 128 in 2025, 277 in 2024, 338 in 2023, 212 in 2022, 148 in 2021, 205 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.