
Senior Engineer - IT
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America16 hours ago
Chennai, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable full-stack solutions across frontend and backend systems.
- Design and build secure, scalable RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend services.
- Build and maintain high-performance React and Next.js applications, including server-side rendered and SEO-friendly web applications.
- Collaborate with UX and design teams to deliver consistent, intuitive, accessible, and responsive user experiences.
- Review engineers’ pull requests and mentor them on coding standards, scalability, architecture, and best practices.
- Manage application deployments across Dev, QA, UAT, and Production environments.
- Provide rotational or on-demand production support focused on system stability and issue resolution.
- Ensure high unit, integration, and UI test coverage and enforce quality gates.
- Champion responsible AI-assisted development for code generation, refactoring, testing, debugging, documentation, and productivity.
- Work with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver complex technical initiatives and recommend solutions for security, scalability, and high availability.
Requirements
- At least 6+ years of engineering experience.
- Significant experience with Java, preferably Spring Boot, along with React JS and Next JS.
- Experience with server-side rendering, static site generation, API-driven development, scalable RESTful APIs, and microservices.
- Experience building applications from concept and architecture through development and production deployment.
- Knowledge of MVC, MVVM, layered architecture, microservices, and event-driven architecture.
- Experience with authentication and authorization technologies including OAuth, JWT, and SSO.
- Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and observability tools.
- Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database technologies, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
- Proficiency with Git and understanding of web performance optimization, accessibility, and responsive design.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, or similar platforms, including validating generated code and protecting confidential information.
- Strong communication, attention to detail, cross-team collaboration, and stakeholder-alignment skills.
- US insurance-domain experience, including group benefits, billing, claims, or enrollment, is an advantage; familiarity with MetLife, Sun Life, or similar insurers is preferred.
Benefits
- Position is based in Chennai.
- Requires overlapping time-zone work with US East Coast teams as needed.
- Includes rotational or on-demand production support responsibilities.