Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend
GEICO
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This role pays less than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $195,000–$238,312 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $170k versus about $217k for comparable roles.
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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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Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Billing Platform joins the Billing Platform team to manage critical infrastructure, data, reporting, and services essential for seamless billing experiences. This role involves re-architecting a core platform from the ground up to improve scalability and efficiency across components like invoicing, commissions management, payment processing, and CRM integration. You will oversee high-level and low-level designs of sub-systems while providing strategic guidance to multiple teams. The position requires extensive experience in designing large-scale distributed systems using Java, Kotlin, or Golang. Technical requirements include proficiency with SQL and NoSQL databases, Kafka, Spark, Airflow, and cloud computing tools for DevOps, observability, and test automation. You will solve complex technical challenges within the financial technology domain to ensure reliable performance of the backbone systems managing financial transactions and customer interactions.
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Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.
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