Staff Engineer - React (Commercial Service Platform) REMOTE

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge : Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

Position Summary

Geico is seeking a highly skilled Staff Full Stack Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications, especially optimize and resolve performance issues in our commercial insurance tech platforms. 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.

Position Description

Our Staff Software Engineer works with our Senior Staff and Senior Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities.

The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of both front-end and back-end technologies and will take a hands-on approach to drive improvements in system performance, scalability, and reliability. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement solutions that enhance our platform’s ability to meet growing business demands.

Position Responsibilities

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will :

• Design, develop, and optimize high-performance, scalable web applications.
• Lead the resolution of critical performance bottlenecks across the full stack, ensuring seamless integration with backend services and cloud / on-prem infrastructure.
• Perform root cause analysis of performance issues and implement monitoring, profiling, and optimization strategies.
• Lead efforts to implement microservices architecture and integrate with cloud technologies such as AWS or Azure.
• Develop and drive the tech strategy for the Commercial Insurance organization, aligning it with the organization's business goals and objectives.
• Provide thought leadership in application performance, staying ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Lead the design and architecture of resilient and scalable systems, considering both on-premises and cloud-based solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate performance best practices into the development and deployment processes.
• Be a hands-on advocate for software engineering and SDLC best practices (technical review documents, architecture, software development, software reviews, testing, production readiness reviews, etc.).
• 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

Qualifications

Experience

Education

LI-RP2

Annual Salary

115,000.00 - $230,000.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate / annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The GEICO Pledge :

Great Company :  At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers :  We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture :  We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards :  We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.