Senior Associate - Full Stack Developer Engineer

Senior Associate - Full Stack Developer Engineer

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Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week

As part of Technology, you will 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.

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.

• 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.
• Represent engineering team in cross‑functional discussions with stakeholders, senior management, and partners.

• 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 React
  
  JS 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 Dev Ops principles, including version control (Github), and CICD.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting experience.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and deliver high‑quality outcomes.
• Demonstrat…