
Technical Lead – Software Engineering
Guardian Life
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New Jersey • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $118,980 - $195,465 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
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