Senior Staff Engineer - Payments 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.

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.

Summary:

As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you’ll lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap for modernization of our Payments Platform, with a strong focus on data architecture. You will design how payment data is stored, collected, and structured to power critical use cases such as fraud, business analytics, machine learning and financial reporting. You will work across the team to build scalable, resilient, and modern data systems while mentoring engineers and establishing high standard for technical decision making and team performance. 

Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement secure, resilient, and compliant data systems for our payment platform across legacy (MS SQL) and modern (Postgres, Cassandra) systems. 
• Develop and execute a strategy for real-time and batch data processing, ensuring data is correct, complete and timely for downstream use cases. 
• Lead the development of data-driven solutions, including integrating complex data systems, and implementing analytics capabilities to derive insights from large datasets. 
• Partner closely with data engineers, analysts and scientists to define and implement data models and pipelines, that support critical business use cases. 
• Provide mentorship and foster a culture of learning and engineering excellence. 
• Set high standards for code, design documentation, and technical decision-making. 
• Establish practices for a high-performing engineering organization. 
• Stay ahead of industry trends and recommend new technologies. 
• Resolve service disruptions and implement prevention/self-healing mechanisms. 
• Influence and educate stakeholders at all levels. 

Qualifications:

• Proven track record of designing and implementing data platforms for payments, financial or highly regulated systems 
• Ability to connect technical data solutions to business needs, ensuring data is actionable for business use cases 
• Deep understanding of modern data architecture patterns, including event-driven architecture, steam processing (e.g. kafka) and real-time data processing. 
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to architect complex systems that can process and analyze large-scale data efficiently.  
• Strong experience with cloud-native architecture, CNCF frameworks, and databases like Postgres and Cassandra 
• Proficiency in modern programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, Python, C#) and data-related tools like Kafka, Airflow, Spark, etc. 
• Strong problem-solving, leadership and collaboration skills across distributed teams. 
• Understanding of data privacy, compliance, and governance practices in the payments industry 

Experience:

• 12+ years in software development with Go or Java frameworks. 
• 10+ years in architecture and system design with a data-intensive applications. 
• 8+ years with cloud-native systems, CNCF frameworks and distributed data stores 
• Experience with payment systems and financial reporting is highly preferred. 

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience. 

Annual Salary

$130,000.00 - $260,000.00

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.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.