Guardian Life

Lead Software Engineer

Guardian Life

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $116,350 - $191,155 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudGraphQLJavaScriptJestNode.jsReactRedisTypeScript

About the role

  • In this role, you will shape Guardian’s most critical customer-facing digital experiences.
  • This position requires extensive hands-on technical experience building scalable, performant web applications in a modern cloud environment, working collaboratively with engineers, product, UI/UX, business leaders and data to create best-in-class experiences for our customers.
  • Be Creative - have the freedom to innovate, modernize and create technical solutions to solve complex business problems
  • Be Collaborative - work with technical and non-technical teams alike to bring solutions to life
  • Be Precise - understand the business goals and strategy to empower you to create the right solutions
  • Be Awesome - launch products that you can be proud of
  • BA/BS degree in computer science or relevant work experience
  • Location: Three days a week at a Guardian location in New York, NY, Holmdel, NJ or Bethlehem, PA.
  • Salary Range: $116,350.00 - $191,155.00

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience leading engineering teams, delivering resilient, highly performant, public-facing customer web experiences that have had demonstrative business impact
  • Highly proficient in Javascript/Typescript (Node/React/Next/NestJS/Jest)
  • Extensive experience in API development best practices (REST/GraphQL) and integration with third-party systems
  • Experience with Redis, micro-frontends and micro-services desirable
  • Mastery of web fundamentals, including vanilla Javascript, HTML, CSS, and web core vitals performance tuning
  • Experience developing complex applications in an Agile environment as part of a team of engineers, designers, product experts, marketers, and strategists
  • Experience with modern web application development, including build tools, testing, CI/CD and AWS
  • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  • Working knowledge of security best practices, e.g.: OWASP, dealing with PII data
  • BA/BS degree in computer science or relevant work experience