Principal Engineer I - Full Stack Engineer

Chevy Chase, MD, United States

GEICO MarTech is seeking a highly motivated Engineer with a passion for building high performance, low latency platforms and applications. You will be part of the Digital Analytics team, which is critical to the success of GEICO’s Marketing, Customer Analytics and digital (customer-facing) applications Web and Mobile.

Position Description:

The Digital Analytics Team is seeking talented senior to principal-level engineers to join our team with a focus on developing data collection system, web analytics data platform, and core API capabilities. An ideal candidate is intellectually curious, has a solution-oriented mindset, and enjoys learning new tools and techniques. You will have the opportunity to design and execute vital efforts such as delivering real-time web and mobile data collection, processing, and server-side tag management systems. The candidate will build data solutions and services that helps GEICO better understand fundamental information on how many customers came to GEICO.com and how many completed each step in the application flow, among many other insights of customer experience on digital channels, Marketing measurement, attribution, and success.

Position Responsibilities

As a Principal Engineer, you will:

Focus on a few key areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams.

Own complete solution across its entire life cycle.

Design and implement real-time data collection solutions using technologies like Java, or Event Collection or similar frameworks.

Collaborate with engineering team to define the overall system architecture, ensuring scalability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.

Act as a technical and thought leader for domains like Digital Analytics, or data streaming and API.

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 & performance of the solutions.

Implement monitoring and logging solutions to track system performance and troubleshoot issues.

Lead in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization.

Utilize programming languages like Java, 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.

Qualification:

Fluency and Specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, JavaScript, or Python including object-oriented design.

Experience in building products micro-services oriented architecture and extensible APIs.

Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.

Experience containerizing applications using Docker or Kubernetes (AKS preferred)

Experience designing and implementing performance testing with tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner

Familiarity with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code.

Understanding of Monitoring Portals such as Splunk or Application Insights

Understanding of Security Protocols & Products: Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth

Experience and passion for documentation and mentoring junior developers

Understanding of CI/CD tooling like Jenkins, Gradle, and Artifactory

Strong problem-solving ability

Hands-on experience with real-time event-steaming platforms such as Apache Kafka

Hands-on experience with SQL, Spark, or Gremlin is a huge plus

Familiarity with NoSQL and Graph databases

Experience writing unit tests using common testing frameworks and actively contributing to code quality

Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)

Experience:

6+ years of professional software development experience

3+ years of experience with architecture and design with web and mobile

3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

1+ years of people management experience education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Benefits:

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:

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

Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.

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