1 day ago
Bethesda, MD, USA or Palo Alto, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$115k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical architecture and leadership across communications orchestration, channel delivery, and document platforms.
- Architect, build, and deploy scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available cloud systems.
- Design event-driven workflows, rule evaluation, asynchronous processing, RESTful APIs, microservices, and internal web applications.
- Establish practices for reliability, testing, deployment, rollback, monitoring, observability, and operational readiness.
- Implement metrics, distributed tracing, structured logging, alerting, and post-incident improvement processes.
- Use AI coding assistants for requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, documentation, refactoring, and issue support.
- Champion responsible AI-assisted development through prompts, workflows, quality standards, security guardrails, and coaching.
- Mentor engineers and influence architecture, experimentation, and delivery across multiple teams.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience and at least 2 years in a technical leadership capacity.
- Deep expertise in Java, including Java 17 or later, with Java 21 preferred, and the Spring Boot 3.x ecosystem.
- Demonstrated experience using and helping teams adopt AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or comparable tools.
- Proven ability to build scalable, resilient, secure, maintainable production systems using microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture.
- Expertise with Azure, AWS, or GCP; service design; performance optimization; reliability engineering; and observability or SRE practices.
- Experience building RESTful APIs and web applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Experience with event-driven architecture, workflow orchestration, asynchronous systems, high-throughput messaging, and system reliability improvements is preferred.
- Preferred qualifications include Kafka, Temporal, SRE or platform engineering, distributed tracing, log aggregation, alerting, A/B testing, feature flags, migrations, legacy modernization, regulated industries, document generation, communications platforms, open source, and applied generative AI.
- Strong collaboration, communication, mentoring, technical influence, and stakeholder-management skills.
Benefits
- Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
- Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support employee well-being and future needs.
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About GEICO
GEICO sells auto and other personal lines insurance to U.S. consumers through a primarily direct-to-consumer model via web, mobile, and phone, with some local agents. Its products include car, motorcycle, RV, boat, homeowners, renters, condo, umbrella, and commercial auto coverage, plus roadside assistance. Founded in 1936 and headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, GEICO is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway and is among the largest auto insurers in the United States.