Lead Platform Engineer
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America4 days ago
Responsibilities
- Design and build reusable platform capabilities, production services, APIs, integrations, tooling, and automation.
- Lead strategic engineering initiatives from approved scope through production delivery, including discovery, planning, implementation, deployment, and adoption.
- Develop implementation plans, sequence work into phases, coordinate dependencies, and translate engineering and business needs into technical recommendations.
- Partner with application, platform, architecture, and engineering teams across organizational boundaries to identify challenges and opportunities.
- Create technical designs, documentation, implementation guides, onboarding materials, and reusable engineering patterns.
- Present technical recommendations and facilitate technical discussions to support adoption of new capabilities.
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions.
- Promote engineering standards, reusable patterns, reliability, observability, documentation, maintainability, and continuous improvement of developer workflows.
Requirements
- 7–10 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Professional experience designing, building, operating, and supporting production software systems, services, APIs, integrations, and automation solutions.
- Strong software development skills using C#, TypeScript, Java, Python, Go, Kotlin, or similar languages.
- Ability to drive technical initiatives from requirements gathering through implementation and deployment.
- Experience collaborating across multiple engineering teams, organizational boundaries, and globally distributed teams.
- Experience creating technical documentation, implementation plans, and architectural designs.
- Strong written and verbal communication, analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work effectively with evolving requirements, incomplete information, and multiple technologies and business domains.
- Preferred experience with developer experience, platform engineering, internal developer platforms, engineering enablement, CI/CD platforms, workflow orchestration, enterprise integrations, engineering tool adoption, AI-assisted development tools, and engineering metrics or intelligence solutions.
Benefits
- Full-time eligible employees receive Guardian benefits and resources, including supportive and flexible benefits, skill-building, leadership development, and philanthropic opportunities.
- The position requires working three days per week at a Guardian office in New York, NY; Holmdel, NJ; or Bethlehem, PA.
- No regular travel is required.
About The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America is a U.S. mutual insurer that provides life and disability insurance, dental and vision plans, annuities, and workplace benefits to individuals, families, and employers. It earns revenue through premiums, investment income, and fee-based wealth and retirement solutions, distributed via financial professionals, employers, and digital channels. Founded in 1860 and headquartered in New York City, it operates nationwide and is owned by its policyholders.