Staff Software Engineer - Data Controls & Standards

$110,000 - $236,500/Yr

Geico - Chevy Chase, MD

Full-time - Mid Level

Chevy Chase, MD

Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

About the position

GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement. Our Staff Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working with the organization to provide friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.

Responsibilities

• Design, Develop and implement enterprise data controls and standards
• Design, Develop and implement data quality solutions for the enterprise
• Design, Develop and implement solutions to manage data products, data contracts and data dictionaries for the enterprise
• Design, Develop and implement data lineage solutions for the enterprise
• Design, Develop and implement data classification solution identifying PCI, PII, etc data across the enterprise
• Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems
• Responsible for technical aspects of a project at the team level
• Lead design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
• Spearhead new feature use (innovate within existing tooling)
• Spearhead new software acquisition and use (innovate with new tooling)
• Leverage automation to remove redundant error prone tasks to improve the quality of the solution
• Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution
• Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle
• Define, create, and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective
• Mentor other engineers
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Requirements

• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
• Experience with programming languages like Java, Python, SQL, and NoSQL databases
• Experience with GIT and version control concepts including branching, merging, and conflict resolution
• Experience with Open-Source Data Governance solutions like Datahub
• Experience with Open-source tools like DBT, Soda, Iceberg
• Experience in the complete software development life cycle and knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
• Experience with container orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and various Azure tools and services
• Experience with relational and non-relational database technologies (SQL, Oracle, Postgres, CosmosDB, NoSQL etc.)
• Experience with Load test tooling (Gatling or equivalent)
• Experience with API development and integration, Spring Boot Framework and other Spring technologies
• Experience with data observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus or equivalents
• Proven understanding and experience with microservices oriented architecture, extensible REST APIs and GraphQL
• Advanced understanding of DevOps concepts including Azure DevOps framework and tools
• Understanding and experience working with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Gradle, Artifactory, Microsoft Azure DevOps
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
• Advanced shell scripting skills
• Advanced understanding of monitoring concepts and tooling
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment
• Experience specifically with React (Clean Architecture) or Angular
• Experience with GIT
• AI/ML experience preferred

Nice-to-haves

• Experience specifically with React (Clean Architecture) or Angular
• AI/ML experience preferred

Benefits

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Training and Licensures