Guardian Life

Technical Lead – Software Engineering

Guardian Life

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York CityNew JerseyNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $118,980 - $195,465 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Lead the design, development, and technical delivery for one or more agile squads
  • Define and enforce coding standards, best practices, application support and test automation strategies
  • Manage all team level dependencies in partnership with Product Owner
  • Continuously look for opportunities to optimize the team
  • Collaborate with Product and COEs, Data, AI, Architecture, and QA teams to ensure technical alignment
  • Conduct design and code reviews to maintain quality, scalability, support and security
  • Mentor engineers, fostering skill development and technical depth across the team
  • Troubleshoot complex issues and implement long-term, sustainable solutions
  • Drive adoption of SDLC practices CI/CD, and cloud-native solutions
  • Contribute to technical roadmaps, influencing architecture and modernization decisions
  • Write and deploy code or configuration to support the product teams

Requirements

  • 9–12 years of software engineering experience, including several in a technical leadership role
  • Deep hands-on expertise in modern programming languages such as Java, Python, and Node.js
  • Strong understanding of AI, Data, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems
  • Experience working in cloud-based environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and improve team performance
  • Excellent collaboration skills with cross-functional teams in agile settings.
Benefits
  • Opportunities to build communities and grow your career
  • Diverse colleagues with high ethical standards
  • Leadership development and philanthropic opportunities
  • Contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaPythonNode.jsAIDataAPIsmicroservicesdistributed systemsCI/CDcloud-native solutions
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentoringcollaborationteam performance improvementtroubleshootingdesign reviewscode reviewsoptimizationcommunicationfostering skill development