Staff Engineer– Mobile & Web Application Framework Team (REMOTE)
GEICO
- Chevy Chase, MD
- Permanent
- Full-time
Our Principal Engineer is a lead member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a fiction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.Position Responsibilities
As a Principal Engineer, you will:
- Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams
- Own complete solution across its entire life cycle
- Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise-class business applications
- Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
- Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
- Utilize programming languages like JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift, Objective C, Kotlin, Java, C#, Dart, Python, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
- Mentor more junior team members professionally to help them realize their full potential
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
- Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, Swift, Kotlin, Dart, Java, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience in building products using a micro-services architecture and extensible REST APIs
- Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
- Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework
- Experience in leveraging PowerShell scripting
- Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal
- Experience in application monitoring tools and performance assessments: Splunk or Application Insights
- Experience in Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, including the Azure platform, and its native services
- Experience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth
- Experience in Azure Network (Subscription, Security zoning, etc)
- Experience in Genesis
- In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
- Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
- Experience in Application Frameworks
- Experience with Gradle
- Experience with XCode, Android Studio, VS Code, or a similar IDE
- Experience in Risk assessment
- 6+ years of professional software development experience within Mobile and Web frameworks/SDKs/languages such as Swift/Objective-C, iOS SDK, Kotlin/Java, Android SDK, React, TypeScript/JavaScript, or Flutter/Dart
- 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
- 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
- 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
- 1+ years of people management experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
- Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
- Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
- 401(k) Plan
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Training and Licensures