Staff Engineer – Java, Spring Boot, Event Driven Architecture, Workflow Orchestration, Backend Operations, UI/UX, Distributed Systems, High Volume Scalable Systems

Role Overview

• Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise.
• Collaborate across team members and across the tech organization to solve our toughest problems.
• Deliver High-Quality services and software for a variety of domains.
• Accountable for the quality, usability, performance and reliability of the solutions(high-volume, highly scalable systems and sub-second SLAs on latency-critical paths).
• Utilize your expertise in designing and developing API’s and microservices using graphQL, gRPC, Java, Python, Kafka, with a deep understanding of API first design.
• Utilize programming languages like Java, C#, or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
• Deploy applications in a hybrid cloud environment utilizing Kubernetes, various data stores, and a variety of cloud native tools and services.
• Work on End-to-End solutions that may span front-end through API tiers and Back-End domain services.
• Durable workflow orchestration (long-running processes, retries, idempotency, versioning, failure handling, production operations with platform teams).
• 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.

Requirements

• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap.
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production.
• Proven expertise in API-first engineering, event-driven architecture, and real-time APIs—including federated GraphQL and gRPC—with experience operating high-throughput systems and meeting strict latency targets (including sub-second SLAs on defined synchronous paths), plus sound handling of schema evolution and performance.
• Ability to manage schema evolution, versioning and high-performance API driven systems.
• Proven experience designing and delivering highly-resilient event-driven and messaging based solutions at scale with minimal latency.
• Hands-on experience with durable workflow orchestration at scale (e.g. Temporal, AWS Step Functions, or equivalent): workflow design, versioning, failure handling, and production operations—integrated with messaging/event platforms where relevant.
• Deep hands-on experience in building complex SAAS systems in large scale business focused systems, with great knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes.
• Fluency and Specialization with Java and at least one other modern language such as C#, C++, or Python including object-oriented design.
• Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development.
• Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Cosmos, Cassandra. Apache Trino etc.
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
• Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Experience in implementing security protocols across services and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth.

Tech Stack

• Apache
• AWS
• Cassandra
• Cloud
• Docker
• GraphQL
• GRPC
• Java
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Microservices
• MySQL
• NoSQL
• Postgres
• Python
• 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.