Staff Engineer – Full Stack Applications FinOps

About the role

GEICO is seeking a Staff Engineer – Full Stack to lead the development of a full stack platform addressing infrastructure governance in a hybrid cloud environment. The role involves leading the development of UI using React, Typescript, and Bootstrap on a Django framework, as well as contributing to the architecture and development of microservices using Golang, Python, Django, and Kafka. The ideal candidate will lead and contribute across the stack, ensuring successful delivery of services and meeting performance, scalability, and reliability standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and thought leadership across multiple layers of the stack, focusing on full-stack web application development and integration of UI, micro-services, 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 micro-services.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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 micro-services 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 (CI/CD).
• Knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms.
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development lifecycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication).
• Strong problem-solving ability.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.
• Annual Salary Range: $110,000.00 - $230,000.00.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailored to your and your family’s overall well-being.
• Market-competitive compensation.
• A 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match.
• Performance and recognition-based incentives.
• Tuition assistance.
• Additional benefits like mental healthcare and fertility and adoption assistance.
• Flexible workplace options.

Pay

$110,000.00 - $230,000.00

Schedule

Full-time