Staff Engineer – JAVA

Role Overview

• 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.
• Accountable for the quality, usability & performance of the solutions.
• 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.
• Utilize programming languages like Java, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services.
• Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential.
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.

Requirements

• 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 building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
• 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.
• Experience in leveraging Powershell scripting.
• 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.
• Experience and passion for documentation and mentoring junior developers.
• 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.
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication).
• 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.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.

Tech Stack

• Apache
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Docker
• Google Cloud Platform
• Gradle
• GraphQL
• Java
• Jenkins
• JMeter
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• NoSQL
• Open Source
• SDLC
• Splunk
• SQL

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.