Staff Engineer – Full Stack Applications

About the role

GEICO is seeking a Staff Engineer – Full Stack to lead the UI and backend development of a full stack platform addressing the infrastructure demand, capacity and quota needs of a hybrid cloud environment. The role is within the capacity management platform team and focuses on full stack web application development.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and thought leadership across multiple layers of the stack, focusing on full stack 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 analysis, 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 Partner 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 web applications in Kubernetes (k8s) environments, ensuring reliable interaction with backend services and seamless integration with cloud and on-premises systems.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• Experience 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.
• Preferred experience with capacity management within hybrid cloud.

Pay

$110,000.00 - $230,000.00

Schedule

Full-time