Senior Staff Engineer, Financial Substantiation Platform

GEICO

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Bethesda, MDWashington, DCFalls Church, VABaltimore, MDDallas, TX
Salary
$120,000–$260,000 / yr
Posted
129 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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This role $190k
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This role pays less than 57% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$238,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $190k versus about $195k for comparable roles.

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About GEICO

GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is one of the largest auto insurers in the United States, offering affordable auto, home, renters, and other personal insurance products. Industry: Insurance

GEICO currently has 68 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $112,500–$230,000 across 68 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff Engineer, Financial Substantiation Platform

As a Senior Staff Engineer - Financial Substantiation Platform, you will provide technical and architectural leadership to design, build, and scale systems that validate and reconcile financial data across enterprise sources. You will work with Finance, Compliance, Product, and ERP-aligned teams to deliver reliable reconciliation services, clear data lineage, and integrated source systems for financial reporting and GL-related workflows. Your daily responsibilities include building scalable, secure software for matching, exceptions, and financial controls while driving modernization initiatives away from legacy systems. You will utilize Java, C#, or Go, along with Microservices, REST, gRPC, SQL, and cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP. The role requires expertise in distributed, data-heavy systems, CI/CD, containers, and IaC to solve complex problems involving high-volume financial data, reconciliation, and ledger-adjacent systems within a large-scale enterprise environment.

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What you'll do

  • Provide technical and architectural leadership for substantiation services, APIs, and data paths.
  • Build scalable, secure, and highly available software for matching, exceptions, and financial controls.
  • Drive modernization initiatives to transition away from legacy reconciliation and financial systems.
  • Own end-to-end solutions including design, quality, reliability, performance, and observability.
  • Align with Finance, Compliance, and Product teams on requirements and operational outcomes.
  • Mentor engineers and foster a culture of continuous learning within the organization.
  • Influence leadership by articulating technical trade-offs and project roadmaps clearly.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 10+ years of software development experience with staff/principal-level impact.
  • 8+ years leading architecture and large initiatives with cross-functional technical leadership.
  • 6+ years of experience with cloud-native and distributed systems in production.
  • 5+ years of experience with high-volume data, reconciliation, or financial/payments/ledger-adjacent systems.
  • 4+ years of experience with a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  • Proficiency in at least one modern language like Java, C#, or Go, along with SQL and distributed system design.
  • Experience with CI/CD, containers, IaC, and production DevOps/observability practices.

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