Senior Staff Backend Engineer — Billing Platform Architect

Government Employees Insurance Company; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is seeking a seasoned Software Engineer to join the Billing platform team in Palo Alto, CA. You will help design, build, and scale a large distributed system that processes invoicing, payments, subscriptions, and analytics for internal and external users.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years of hands-on software development experience, strong Java/Kotlin/Golang skills, and a track record in cloud-native architectures, DevOps, and telemetry.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience architecting large-scale, complex systems.
• Proficient coding in Java, Kotlin, Golang or similar languages; production-quality code.

Responsibilities

• Oversee design/development of sub-systems of the billing platform.
• Ensure quality, reliability, usability, and performance of solutions.
• Provide technical guidance across multiple billing teams and align with business objectives.
• Lead design and development of scalable, maintainable software systems.

Skills

10+ years experience

Large-scale systems design

Java

Kotlin

Golang

SQL/NoSQL

Cloud & DevOps

Observability & telemetry

Test automation

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s in CS or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Airflow

Job description

GEICO is seeking a seasoned Software Engineer to join the Billing platform team in Palo Alto, CA. You will help design, build, and scale a large distributed system that processes invoicing, payments, subscriptions, and analytics for internal and external users.

Ideal candidates have 10+ years of hands-on software development experience, strong Java/Kotlin/Golang skills, and a track record in cloud-native architectures, DevOps, and telemetry.