**Who this is for** This role is for a highly experienced Senior Staff Engineer with a proven track record in designing and delivering financial or highly regul
Work type: hybrid
Location: Palo Alto, CA | Richardson, TX
Salary: $120,000 – $260,000/yr
Type: Full-time
**Who this is for** This role is for a highly experienced Senior Staff Engineer with a proven track record in designing and delivering financial or highly regulated systems, specifically within payments. You will lead the strategy and execution for modernizing GEICO's Payments Platform. **Key highlights** You will lead the architecture, development, and delivery of capabilities on the Payments Platform, ensuring security, resilience, and correctness. This includes driving improvements to engineering practices, mentoring engineers, and staying current with industry trends. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have 12+ years in software development with Go or Java, and 10+ years in architecture and system design. - Possess deep hands-on experience with distributed systems and cloud-native architecture, along with strong analytical and problem-solving skills. - Have a solid understanding of data privacy, compliance, and governance practices in the payments industry. - Hold a Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
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:
Our Sr Staff Engineers work with engineers and engineering leaders to innovate and build new systems, improve and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply their knowledge to solve critical problems. As a Sr. Staff Engineer, you’ll lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap for modernization of our Payments Platform. You will work across the team to build scalable, resilient, and modern systems while mentoring engineers and establishing high standard for technical decision making and team performance.
Responsibilities:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
Annual Salary
$120,000.00 - $260,000.00The 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.