Director Java Coding Jobs in Kent, WA (NOW HIRING)

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.

About the Team

Join theClaims Platform Engineering - Communications teamand revolutionize how insurance claims communications work. We build the multi-channel communications infrastructure (letters, emails, texts, fax) that connects adjusters with customers, enabling seamless interactionsthroughout the claims journey.

Strategic Projects Examples

• Next-Gen Communications Rules Engine: Build a sophisticated low-code/no-code platform enablingbusiness users to design automated communication workflows. Tacklechallenges in event-driven architecture, rule evaluation, workflow orchestration, and intuitive UI designfor complex logic.

• Dynamic Letter GenerationPlatform: An intelligent document generation system producing personalized, compliant correspondence at scale.
• Gen AI-Powered Communications: Leverage generative AI to create personalized user communications including text messaging, email, and letter generation, ensuring tone, compliance, and customer experience excellence.

WhyThis Role

• Build cloud-native systems with modern technologies (Java 21, Spring Boot3.x, Kafka, Temporal)

• Direct impact on millionsof customers and thousandsof adjusters daily

• Shapearchitecture and engineeringpractices for strategic platforms

• Work oncomplex, interesting problems spanningdistributed systems, orchestration, and integration

• Collaborate across Product, UX, and business stakeholders

Ifyou're passionate about building impactful systems that transform customerand employee experiences, let's talk.

Job Summary:

We areseeking an exceptional Staff Engineer to provide technicalarchitecture and leadership within a team and acrossmultiple projects. The ideal candidate will havedeep expertise in Java and cloud-nativearchitecture, consistently lead development of production-ready complex systems, and influence technical direction across the team. Experience with web application development isrequired to support internal tooling needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Architecture & Leadership
  • Provide technical architecture and leadershipwithin a team and across multiple projects
  • Consistently lead development of production-ready complex systems involving multiple subsystems
  • Drive technical direction throughinformed decisionson architecture, design patterns, and technologychoices
  • Establish technical standards and patterns that improve engineeringeffectiveness
• System Design & Development
  • Lead design reviews and architectural decisions
  • Architect cloud-native solutions with deep consideration for distributed systems, reliability, and observability
  • Build RESTful APIs and microservices accounting for security, compliance, and performance
  • Develop and maintain internal web applications tosupport engineering and business needs
• Operational Excellence
  • Integrate comprehensiveobservability (metrics, distributed tracing, structured logging, monitoring)
  • Lead post-incident reviews and implement systemic improvements
  • Build automated testing, deployment, and rollback strategiesfor safe, frequent releases
  • Createoperational runbooks, participate in on-call rotations
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & ProductMindset
  • Partner withProduct Management, DevOps, QA, and business stakeholders on complex initiatives
  • Translate technical concepts effectively for non-technical executivesand stakeholders
  • Lead technical planning within Agileprocesses, driving clarity on scope and timelines
  • Build consensus across teams ontechnical approaches and standards

• Leadership& Mentorship
  • Mentor engineers, accelerating theirtechnical growth and decision-making
  • Set engineering best practices through code reviews, documentation, and technical guidance
  • Fostera culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and operational ownership

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Scienceor equivalent practical experience

• 7-10 years of professional software developmentwith 2+ years in technical leadership

• Deep expertise in Java (Java17+, Java 21preferred) and Spring Boot 3.x ecosystem

• Expert knowledge of microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native architecture (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

• Strong experience with observability, SRE practices, and operational excellence

• Proventrack record leading complex technical initiatives across multipleprojects

• Experiencewith containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD, and infrastructure ascode

• Experience buildingweb applications and proficiency with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

• Willingness to learn and workwith frontend technologies asneeded forinternal tools

• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and driveengineering standards

• Excellent communication skills with ability to influence audiences at all levels

• Track record ofmentoring engineers and elevating team capabilities

• Strong product mindset with focuson delivering business value

• Experience making high-impact technical decisionsunder ambiguity
• Reactiveprogramming, event-driven architectures, and asynchronous systems
• Experience leadingtechnical initiatives spanning multiple teams/projects

Preferred Skills

• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks(React, Angular, Vue.js)

• Deepexpertise in distributed tracing, log aggregation, and alerting systems

• Security best practices and compliance in cloud environments

• Background in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and platform engineering

• Proficiency with AI coding assistants and drivingteam adoption

• Experience with A/B testing, feature flags, and data-driven development

• Contributions to open-source projects or technicalthought leadership

• Track record of successfulsystem migrations or large-scale refactoring
• Experience with insurance orfinancial services industry

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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.