At GEICO, the business problem is to innovate and build new systems, improve and enhance existing systems, and identify new opportunities to apply technical expertise to solve critical problems, while modernizing the servicing organization with API first design.
Requirements
- Proven expertise in API first engineering approaches, service orchestration, event driven architecture and real-time APIs including federated graphQL and gRPC implementations
- Ability to manage schema evolution, versioning and high-performance API driven systems
- Proven experience designing and delivering highly resilient event-driven and messaging based solutions at scale with minimal latency
- Deep hands-on experience in building complex SAAS systems in large scale business focused systems, with great knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
- Fluency and Specialization with Java and at least one other modern language such as C, C++, or Python including object-oriented design
- Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development
- Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Cosmos, Cassandra. Apache Trino etc
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
- Collaborate with team members and across the tech organization to solve our toughest problems
- Deliver High-Quality services and software for a variety of domains
- Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
- Utilize your expertise in designing and developing API’s and microservices using graphQL, gRPC, Java, Python, Kafka, with a deep understanding of API first design
- Deploy applications in a hybrid cloud environment utilizing Kubernetes, various data stores, and a variety of cloud native tools and services
- Work on End-to-End solutions that may span front-end through API tiers and Back-End domain services
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
- 15+ years of experience in full-stack web development (C/Java/Python/GO), with expertise in client-side and server-side frameworks
- 8+ years of experience working with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and private cloud technologies (OpenStack)
- 6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
