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Staff Engineer - Java (API/Software Development/Microservices)

GEICO

$115,000 - $230,000
Oct 15, 2025
Palo Alto, CA, US
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GEICO is looking to modernize its servicing organization with an API-first design, requiring innovation and improvement of existing systems to solve critical problems.

Requirements

  • Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
  • 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
  • Experience in implementing security protocols across services and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
  • Collaborate across 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
  • Utilize programming languages like Java, C, or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
  • Deploy applications in a hybrid cloud environment utilizing Kubernetes, various data stores, and a variety of cloud native tools and services

Other

  • The ideal candidate is a self-starter that has deep technical expertise in their domain.
  • 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
  • Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
  • At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
  • GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.