Lead Software Engineer

We are seeking a highly motivated Lead Software Engineer to join our team, focusing on shaping Guardian’s critical customer-facing digital experiences using React, Next, and Node. This role involves building scalable, performant web applications in AWS, collaborating with engineers, business leaders, UI/UX, and data teams to create best-in-class customer experiences. You will innovate, modernize, and deliver robust user experiences, understanding business goals to create impactful solutions.

Must Have

• 10+ years of experience delivering resilient, highly performant, public-facing web applications
• 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
• Mastery of web fundamentals, including vanilla Javascript, HTML, CSS, and web core vitals performance management
• Experience developing complex applications in an Agile environment
• Experience with modern web application development, including building 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 history

Good to Have

• Experience with Redis, micro-frontends and micro-services

Perks & Benefits

• Freedom to innovate, modernize and create technical solutions
• Support and flexibility to achieve professional and personal goals
• Skill-building, leadership development, and philanthropic opportunities
• Opportunities to build communities and grow your career
• Diverse colleagues with high ethical standards
• Contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources

Overview

We are seeking a highly motivated Lead Software Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be a part of shaping Guardian’s most critical customer-facing digital experiences, utilizing various frameworks such as React, Next and Node. This position requires technical familiarity with building scalable, performant web applications in AWS, working collaboratively with a team of engineers, collaborating with business leaders, UI/UX, data and leadership to create best-in-class experiences for our customers.

What you will get to do:

• Be Creative - have the freedom to innovate, modernize and create technical solutions to solve complex business problems
• Be Collaborative - work with product and design to deliver robust user experiences.
• Be Precise - understand the business goals behind every feature and create a solution that can deliver
• Be Awesome - launch products that you can be proud of

What you bring to the table:

• 10+ years of experience delivering resilient, highly performant, public-facing web applications that have had demonstrative business impact.
• Highly proficient in Javascript/Typescript (Node/React/Next/NestJS/Jest), including advanced patterns to architect large applications, build strategies to maintain these apps in good standards and mentor the team in the appropriate standards.
• 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 management.
• 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 building 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.
• Excitement, energy, and strong people skills including excellent written and verbal communication.
• BA/BS degree in computer science or relevant history

Salary Range:

$118,980.00 - $195,465.00

The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. 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.

Our Promise

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.

Inspire Well-Being

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. Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits. Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits._

Equal Employment 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.

Accommodations

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. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact applicant_accommodation@glic.com.

Current Guardian Colleagues: Please apply through the internal Jobs Hub in Workday.