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About the Role
Improve the engineering experience across Guardian by identifying opportunities, partnering with engineering teams, and delivering reusable platform capabilities, solutions, and tooling. This role combines hands-on software engineering, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to improve developer productivity, accelerate platform adoption, and reduce friction across the software development lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Design and build reusable platform capabilities, services, APIs, integrations, tooling, and automation.
- Apply appropriate architectural patterns and modern engineering practices to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions.
- Contribute production-quality code and support solutions through deployment, operational readiness, and adoption.
- Improve developer workflows and platform usability through targeted technical solutions and reusable components.
- Lead assigned strategic engineering initiatives from approved scope through production delivery.
- Develop implementation plans, sequence work into achievable phases, and coordinate dependencies across teams.
- Partner with application, platform, architecture, and engineering teams to identify challenges and opportunities.
- Conduct discovery to clarify user needs, stakeholders, constraints, dependencies, and success criteria.
- Translate engineering and business needs into solution requirements and technical recommendations.
- Build alignment on priorities and gather feedback to shape solutions and future improvements.
- Present technical recommendations, designs, and implementation approaches to engineers and stakeholders.
- Create clear documentation, implementation guides, onboarding materials, and reusable engineering patterns.
- Facilitate technical discussions and help teams navigate adoption of new capabilities.
- Communicate project status, risks, decisions, and outcomes effectively in both synchronous and asynchronous environments.
- Share lessons learned, best practices, and reusable approaches across teams.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions.
- Promote engineering standards, best practices, and reusable patterns.
- Help establish scalable approaches for platform adoption and engineering enablement.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering processes, tooling, and developer workflows.
- Support operational excellence through reliability, observability, documentation, and maintainability practices.
Requirements
- 7–10 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating production software systems.
- Strong software development skills using technologies such as C#, TypeScript, Java, Python, Go, Kotlin, or similar languages.
- Experience building and supporting production services, APIs, integrations, and automation solutions.
- Proven ability to drive technical initiatives from requirements gathering through implementation and deployment.
- Experience collaborating across multiple engineering teams and organizational boundaries.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience creating technical documentation, implementation plans, and architectural designs.
- Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in environments with evolving requirements and incomplete information.
- Experience with developer experience, platform engineering, internal developer platforms, or engineering enablement initiatives.
- Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar technologies.
- Experience with workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal or similar technologies.
- Experience building integrations across enterprise platforms and services.
- Experience supporting adoption of engineering tools, frameworks, or organizational engineering practices.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools and engineering productivity solutions.
- Experience designing and implementing metrics, reporting, or engineering intelligence solutions.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship/support now or at any time in the future.
Skills
- C#
- TypeScript
- Java
- Python
- Go
- Kotlin
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- Azure DevOps
- Temporal
- AI-assisted software development tools
Location
- New York, NY
- Holmdel, NJ
- Bethlehem, PA
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 7-10 years of professional software engineering experience
- Lead
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Salary/Compensations
- The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.
Benefits
- Support and flexibility to achieve professional and personal goals
- Skill-building
- Leadership development
- Philanthropic opportunities
- Opportunities to build communities and grow your career
- Diverse colleagues with high ethical standards
- Contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources
About the Company
- At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals.
- Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.
- As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues.
Equal Opportunity
- Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
- Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.
- Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.
- Guardian may use artificial intelligence tools (“AI Tools") to automate the sorting and filtering of information provided by applicants as part of its preliminary screening.
- All hiring decisions will be made by Guardian colleagues.
- If you would like to request an alternative process that does not utilize AI Tools or would like to request a reasonable accommodation, within ten business days of your position application, you must email your request to MyHR@glic.com, making sure to provide your name and job requisition identification number.