Staff Engineer-Payments Platform

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.

At GEICO, we’re redefining insurance through innovative technology, delivering trusted, seamless experiences to millions of customers. Our payment platform is at the core of this mission, powering secure, scalable, and efficient transactions.

As a Staff Engineer, you’ll lead the design and development of our next-generation payment platform, leveraging data expertise to drive fraud detection, optimize transaction flows, and enhance real-time analytics. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, champion engineering excellence, and foster a culture of collaboration and innovation.

•  Exceptional leadership and communication to drive payment-focused projects and engage with clients, executives, and cross-functional teams.

•  Analytical mindset with expertise in quantitative data analysis for payment optimization and fraud mitigation.

•  Deep knowledge of in computer architectures, algorithms, and developer tooling across the SDLC.

•  Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment, balancing rapid development with operational stability for payment systems.

With our GEICO Pledge—Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards, Great Careers—you’ll thrive in an environment where your contributions shape the future of insurance payments.

What You’ll Do

•  Lead Payment Platform Innovation: Architect and build scalable, secure payment systems, integrating real-time fraud detection, tokenization, and batch processing capabilities.

•  Harness Data for Impact: Design data pipelines and analytics frameworks to monitor transaction health, detect fraud patterns, and optimize payment performance.

•  Drive Strategy: Partner with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to define and execute a technical roadmap for payment modernization and analytics.

•  Ensure Reliability: Own the performance, security, and usability of payment platforms, ensuring 99.9% uptime and compliance with industry standards.

•  Mentor & Inspire: Coach engineers, share best practices, and influence stakeholders to elevate payment and data engineering expertise.

•  Support Operations: Provide on-call support for payment systems, troubleshoot issues, and champion CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.

What We’re Looking For

Technical Expertise

•  Programming: Proficiency in .NET and advanced knowledge of at least one OOP language (Preferably Python, JavaScript, C#, etc.). Familiarity with Azure is a plus.

•  System Design: 6+ years of experience designing complex systems, data pipelines, and architectures, with expertise in scaling, performance tuning, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

•  Databases: Deep expertise in SQL & open-source databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, etc.) for transaction and analytics use cases

Nice to have:

•  Cloud & Automation: 3+ years working with Azure, AWS, or hybrid data centers. 

•  DevOps & Analytics: Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (Git, Jenkins, CircleCI) and monitoring tools like Grafana and OpenTelemetry for transaction observability.

•  Big Data Expertise: Familiarity with latest data architecture, streaming data pipelines (e.g., Apache Spark, Kafka), and AI/ML frameworks for fraud detection and analytics.

Experience

•  10+ years in software development, platform architecture, or infrastructure management, ideally with payment or fintech systems.

•  4+ years working with open-source frameworks.

•  3+ years in system architecture and design, preferably for payment or data platforms.

Education

•  Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.

Annual Salary

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.

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 tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

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.