Sr. Staff Engineer (Martech/AI/LLM)
Description
Why Join GEICO?
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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.
Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. 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.
Position Summary GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.
Position Description
Our Senior Staff Engineer works with our Staff and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in their domain.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will:
- Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
- Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
- Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains
- Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
- Utilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
- 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
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
- Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
- Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning
Qualifications
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Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments—including AI/LLM evaluation, measurement, and iterative improvement in production—and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
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Extensive experience shipping LLM, generative AI, or intelligent automation solutions in production environments
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Strong grasp of when to use agents, retrieval-augmented generation, classical ML, rules-based workflows, or hybrid approaches for a given business problem
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Experience integrating AI into enterprise services via APIs, events, authentication, and observability patterns
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Understanding of agent architectures, workflow orchestration, vector retrieval, and knowledge/context design
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Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development, with a strong focus on SaaS products / platforms
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Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using GraphQL, gRPC , Java, Python, Kafka, with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures, including integration of AI inference, retrieval, and async/agent workflows
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Proven experience designing and delivering highly-resilient event-driven and messaging-based solutions at scale with minimal latency, including long-running, failure-tolerant workflows for multi-step AI processes
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Fluency and specialization with at least two modern OOP languages such as Java, C#, C++, or Python including object-oriented design
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Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., and a strong foundation with NoSQL databases like Cosmos, Cassandra, Apache Trino, etc.
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Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
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Fluency in test engineering and automated testing concepts, including evaluation and regression testing for non-deterministic AI components
Experience·
10+ years full-stack development experience (Java/C#/Python/Go), with expertise in client-side and server-side frameworks
8+ years of experience with architecture and design
4+ years of applied AI, generative AI, or intelligent automation experience in production, or demonstrable ownership of AI-enabled platform capabilities
4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
Annual Salary
$130,000.00 - $260,000.00
The 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.
At this time, GEICO will consider sponsoring a new 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.
- Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage t