Senior Associate - Developer Engineer

Location Designation:Hybrid - 3 days per week

As part of Technology, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking initiatives that shape New York Life's digital landscape. Leverage cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI to increase productivity, streamline processes, and create seamless experiences for clients, agents, and employees. Your expertise fuels innovation, agility, and growth - driving the company's success.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a Developer Engineer to join the technology team to design and execute the company's modern software development strategy. You will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build applications in the Client Prospecting Value Stream in a hybrid environment encompassing on-prem solutions and cloud hosted applications and platforms. You will be responsible for the development, configuration, enhancement and support of applications in various areas of our business using modern programming languages. You will be involved in the design and deployment of secure, well-tested, scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems. You will also be involved in the evaluation of key attributes of existing application architectures, evolution and enhancements to the infrastructure, product ideation and technology stack selection and in the definition of future state architectures and strategies.

What You'll Do:

The individual should have 7+ years of hands-on application development experience developing and supporting a range of front-end and back-end technologies and stacks with good experience in designing, developing and operationalizing cloud-native applications using Agile and DevSecOps methodologies and frameworks.

• Collaborate with technical leadership to influence architectural decisions and long-term platform strategy.

• Contribute to enterprise standards, best practices, and reusable components across engineering teams.

• Drive initiatives that improve code quality, system performance, and engineering efficiency

• Provide mentorship to junior developers, conduct code reviews, and lead by example in technical excellence.

• Participate in roadmap planning and align engineering efforts with business priorities.

• Own delivery of complex features and enhancements from design through deployment in production

• Contribute to risk assessment, mitigation planning, and incident response strategies in critical systems.

• Representing engineering team in cross-functional discussions with stakeholders, senior management, and partners

What You'll Bring:

• Write clean, well-tested & secure code, exhibit ownership from requirements to development.

• Deeply understand existing architecture on the back end as well as the front-end side to be able to enhance and improve architecture going forward with a key focus on scalability and quality.

• Sharp focus on gaining an in-depth understanding of the requirements around user experience to be able to deliver high quality, cross-platform optimized and responsive web front-end experience.

• Focus on getting the required depth of functional expertise to be able to effectively suggest solutions to business problems/requirements.

• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to work with designers, engineers, product management and business stakeholders to deliver & enhance new/existing capabilities.

• Ability to quickly learn new technologies as needed and apply them to business solutions. Stay abreast of new/upcoming technologies in the market.

• Detail orientation with strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

• Proactive ownership, troubleshooting and resolution of issues as they arise.

• Ensure compliance with NYL security standards.

• Experience with the ReactJS framework, HTML5, and CSS3 is a must.
• Experience with C#, Java, and JavaScript is a plus.
• Experience with content management is a plus.

• Experience in designing and implementing microservices is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of designing secure and performant RESTful APIs, with expertise in authentication and authorization (e.g., OAuth, JWT, SSO).

• Strong expertise with cloud platforms, preferably AWS
• Familiarity with DevOps principles, including version control (Github), and CICD.

• Strong debugging and troubleshooting experience.

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and deliver high-quality outcomes.

• Demonstrated initiative in identifying technical gaps and proposing actionable solutions.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills to clearly convey ideas across technical and non-technical audiences.

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science or another related technical field

• Candidates who have completed full stack development/coding bootcamps or equivalent industry recognized certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer or Solutions architect) will also be considered in lieu of a technical undergraduate degree.

• A master's degree in computer science or related field or any other higher degree preferred, but not mandatory.

Pay Transparency

Salary Range:$82,500-$140,000

Overtime eligible:Exempt

Discretionary bonus eligible:Yes

Sales bonus eligible:No

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Our Benefits

We provide a full package of benefits for employees - and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work. Click here to discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.

Our Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities. Click here to learn more about New York Life's leadership in this space.

Recognized as one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by theFoundation.We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.

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Job Requisition ID: 92369