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  • The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
  • Full time
  • Email
  • New York, NY

Responsibilities

  • Design and build reusable platform capabilities, production services, APIs, integrations, tooling, and automation.
  • Lead strategic engineering initiatives from approved scope through production delivery, including discovery, planning, implementation, deployment, and adoption.
  • Develop implementation plans, sequence work into phases, coordinate dependencies, and translate engineering and business needs into technical recommendations.
  • Partner with application, platform, architecture, and engineering teams across organizational boundaries to identify challenges and opportunities.
  • Create technical designs, documentation, implementation guides, onboarding materials, and reusable engineering patterns.
  • Present technical recommendations and facilitate technical discussions to support adoption of new capabilities.
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions.
  • Promote engineering standards, reusable patterns, reliability, observability, documentation, maintainability, and continuous improvement of developer workflows.

Requirements

  • 7–10 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Professional experience designing, building, operating, and supporting production software systems, services, APIs, integrations, and automation solutions.
  • Strong software development skills using C#, TypeScript, Java, Python, Go, Kotlin, or similar languages.
  • Ability to drive technical initiatives from requirements gathering through implementation and deployment.
  • Experience collaborating across multiple engineering teams, organizational boundaries, and globally distributed teams.
  • Experience creating technical documentation, implementation plans, and architectural designs.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to work effectively with evolving requirements, incomplete information, and multiple technologies and business domains.
  • Preferred experience with developer experience, platform engineering, internal developer platforms, engineering enablement, CI/CD platforms, workflow orchestration, enterprise integrations, engineering tool adoption, AI-assisted development tools, and engineering metrics or intelligence solutions.

Benefits

  • Full-time eligible employees receive Guardian benefits and resources, including supportive and flexible benefits, skill-building, leadership development, and philanthropic opportunities.
  • The position requires working three days per week at a Guardian office in New York, NY; Holmdel, NJ; or Bethlehem, PA.
  • No regular travel is required.

The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America is a trusted provider of life insurance and financial solutions, dedicated to helping individuals and families secure their futures. With a focus on personalized service and innovative products, we empower clients to achieve peace of mind and long‑te...

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