Senior Staff Engineer — Financial Substantiation Platform (Hybrid)

GEICO; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and scale the Substantiation Platform, validating financial data across enterprise sources. You will collaborate with Finance, Compliance, and Product teams to deliver dependable reconciliation services.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of software development experience and a Bachelor's or Master's in CS or Engineering. This hybrid role can be based in Bethesda, MD or Dallas, TX, with an annual salary range of $120,000 to $260,000.

Qualifications

• 10+ years software development with staff/principal-level impact.
• 8+ years leading architecture and large initiatives with cross-functional technical leadership.
• 6+ years cloud-native/distributed systems in production.
• 5+ years in high-volume data, reconciliation, or financial/payments/ledger-adjacent systems.
• 4+ years on a major cloud platform.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and architectural leadership for substantiation and reconciliation services.
• Build scalable, secure, highly available software for matching, exceptions, and financial controls.
• Drive modernization initiatives, evolving away from legacy systems.
• Own solutions end-to-end including quality, reliability, performance, and observability.
• Align with Product, Finance, Compliance, and Treasury on requirements.

Skills

Java

C#

Go

Microservices

REST

gRPC

SQL

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

CI/CD

Containers

IaC

DevOps practices

Agile

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Kafka

Snowflake

Airflow

Python/PySpark/Snowpark

Job description

GEICO seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and scale the Substantiation Platform, validating financial data across enterprise sources. You will collaborate with Finance, Compliance, and Product teams to deliver dependable reconciliation services.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of software development experience and a Bachelor's or Master's in CS or Engineering. This hybrid role can be based in Bethesda, MD or Dallas, TX, with an annual salary range of $120,000 to $260,000.