Senior Staff Software Engineer - Java

About This Role

This role involves architecting, designing, and developing a cutting-edge, AI-powered marketing automation platform for internal use at GEICO. The Senior Staff Engineer will play a critical role in transforming customer engagement by building smarter, more personalized, and efficient tools for marketing teams, integrating advanced AI and machine learning techniques.

Responsibilities

• Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems
• Build product definition and leverage technical skills to drive towards the right solution
• Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle
• Lead design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
• Build and maintain platform observability infrastructure including monitoring dashboards, alerting systems, and incident response procedures
• Define, create, and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective
• Utilize programming languages like Java, Python, and Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services across the software development life cycle to perform advanced-level Java application design under minimal direction
• Utilize developer tooling across the software development life cycle to perform advanced-level Mobile/Web/UI design, implementation, and maintenance activities under minimal direction
• Mentor and coach engineers across multiple teams, providing technical guidance, career development support, and constructive feedback
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Design and implement data pipelines and analytics solutions using Snowflake and Power BI to drive marketing insights

Requirements

• Experience with design, develop and deploy machine learning solutions to solve complex problems and integrate them into software systems
• Fluency with Java, Spring Framework, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS, JSON, RESTful Web Services, NodeJS, Cassandra and Event Driven Architectures
• Strong Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) platform knowledge
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
• Proficiency in Power BI for creating interactive dashboards, reports, and data visualizations
• Experience with Micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Experience with AI/ML and data driven integration with backend
• Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
• Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework
• Experience with Snowflake data platform including data warehousing, data modeling, and query optimization

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education
• 10+ years of professional software development experience within Web frameworks/SDKs/languages, 8+ years of experience with architecture and design, 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service, 3+ years of experience in open-source frameworks, 2+ years of experience with AI/ML

Nice to Have

• Experience building MarTech applications, including implementation solution design
• Familiarity with Project Management and work item management tools such as Azure DevOps, JIRA
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• Experience with platform stability and observability including building Grafana dashboards, configuring alerts, and implementing monitoring solutions
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
• Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
• Experience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits