Staff Engineer Full Stack Applications (REMOTE)

Staff Engineer Full Stack

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.

We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled Staff Engineer Full Stack to join our Capacity and Workload Management organization. This role is part of the FinOps and Cloud Optimization team, focusing on leading FinOps Engineering projects with expertise in UI, backend development, Cloud Services, architectures, and cost optimization. The platform will be developed using open-source technologies, ensuring scalability to meet Geico's expanding infrastructure requirements.

The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in leading significant projects, encompassing aspects such as cost optimization, capacity planning, and a readiness to take charge and collaborate across the stack as per the team's requirements.

As a Staff Engineer, responsibilities include:

• Providing technical and thought leadership across multiple stack layers, focusing on full stack web app development and ensuring UI, microservices, and backend systems integration.
• Demonstrating a strong grasp of cloud requirements such as cost optimization and capacity planning, facilitating cross-organizational partnerships for cost optimization discussions.
• Managing and implementing optimization and automation strategies for business processes.
• Contributing to the creation of a comprehensive strategy to enhance savings, improve spend reporting, governance, and drive process enhancement.
• Overseeing FinOps stakeholder communications, defining FinOps KPIs for IT executives, and collaborating with Controllers/Tech Financials Controls.
• Effectively relaying critical information to stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Assisting in developing the Economic Unit using business metrics to manage cloud operational expenses.
• Collaborating with product leaders, engineers, and partner teams to grasp product requirements, establish a technical backlog, and devise solutions aligned with the product vision.
• Leading UI development using React, Typescript, and Bootstrap on a Django framework, and contributing to microservices' architecture and development using Python, Django, and Kafka.
• Serving as a role model and mentor to senior and junior engineers, guiding them in system architecture, design, and implementation.
• Maintaining clear communication with partner teams and leads, explaining technical implementations to stakeholders for alignment across teams.
• Utilizing experience in deploying web applications in Kubernetes (k8s) environments to ensure 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.
• Deep understanding of Cloud Services and architectures, pricing models, and billing structures that will allow the candidate to perform deep dives and complex analysis of cost trends, anomalies, identify areas of improvement and support decision making with data driven insights.
• Strong understanding of cloud-based services usage and pricing; AWS and/or Azure and Hands on cloud experience (AWS, Azure etc).
• Strong understanding of cloud requirements, ability to partner across GEICO Tech and drive cost optimization discussions. Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using Python, Django, gRPC with protocol buffers, Kafka, and Apache Spark with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures.
• Collaborate with application teams to understand their approaches and designs to optimize performance and costs within cloud services.
• Willingness to contribute and lead across all layers of the stack, including UI, backend and DevOps based on the needs of the team.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience and/or solutions engineering experience with technologies such as Java, TypeScript, ReactJS, BoostrapJS, Python, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform.
• 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks and cloud technologies like Azure, AWS, GCP. 3+ years of experience with cloud architecture and design including cost optimization, capacity planning, pricing, performance tuning.
• 2+ years of experience working in FinOps Projects and understanding of FinOps concepts preferred. Education Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.

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.