Apply Now: Staff Frontend Developer - REMOTE

Job Highlights:

• Start Date: Immediate openings available
• Company: Workwarp
• Compensation: a competitive salary
• Position: Staff Frontend Developer - REMOTE
• Location: Remote

  Position Summary: GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement. We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Staff Engineer  Full Stack within our performance, efficiency and capacity organization. This role is within the capacity management platform team, and its goal is to lead the UI and backend development of full stack platform to address the infrastructure demand, capacity and quota needs of a hybrid cloud environment. The platform would be built using open-source technologies and would be scalable to handle Geico s growing infrastructure needs. The ideal candidate has lead level experience leading both front-end UI and back-end systems development+ and all points in between and is willing to lead and contribute across the stack depending on the needs of the team. As a Staff Engineer, you will:  Provide technical and thought leadership across multiple layers of the stack, focusing on full stack web application development and ensuring the integration of UI, microservices and backend systems.  Work closely with product leaders, other engineers and partner teams to understand product requirements, build a technical backlog, and develop solutions that align with product vision.  Lead the development of UI using React, Typescript and Bootstrap on a Django framework while also contributing to the Architecture and development of microservices using Python, Django and Kafka.  Design and implement loosely coupled, scalable microservices  Own and drive one to two service areas, being accountable for their successful delivery, from design through to production, and ensuring they meet performance, scalability and reliability standards.  Act as a role model and mentor to senior and junior engineers, guiding them in understanding the architecture, design and implementation of systems.  Maintain excellent communication with partner teams and leads, articulating technical implementations for various stakeholders, ensuring alignment across teams.  Proactively explore unknown product requirements and design solutions that meet evolving needs, contributing to the continuous improvement of our platform.  Leverage your experience in deploying wen applications in Kubernetes (k8s) environments, ensuring reliable interaction with backend services and seamless integration with cloud and on-premises systems. Qualifications  Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack web applications, with a strong focus on front-end technologies like React, Typescript, Bootstrap) and Django-based backends.  Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using Python, Django, gRPC with protocol buffers, Kafka and Apache Spark with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures.  Strong background in leading UI development efforts, particularly with JavaScript based frameworks ensuring a seamless user experience.  Experience leading web application development using micro-frontend architecture with client-side composition methods.  Experience leading the integration of micro-frontend applications with a large single page application.  Experience building architecture, design patterns, reliability, security and scaling of new and existing web applications.  Expertise leading and contributing to event driven microservices using Kafka and Apache spark  Expertise in data model design on relational databases like PostgreSQL and No-SQL databases like Cassandra, MongoDB  Understanding of existing monitoring concepts and tooling  Understanding of DevOps Concepts and Cloud Architecture  Understanding of Azure platform and its native services  Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD)  Knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms  Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)  Strong problem-solving ability  Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment  Willingness to contribute and lead across all layers of the stack, including UI, backend and DevOps based on the needs of the team. Experience  8+ years of professional software development experience and/or solutions engineering experience with technologies such as J