Key skills
ApacheAWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGradleGraphQLJavaJenkinsJMeterKafkaKubernetesNoSQLOpen SourceSDLCSplunkSQLPowerShellApache KafkaGCPGoogle CloudAKSOAuthSAMLActive DirectoryPerformance OptimizationCI/CDLeadershipMentoringCommunication
About this role
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
- 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
- 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 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)
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.