Senior Associate - Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack Engineer

As part of Technology, you'll 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.

New York Life is looking for a Full Stack 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.

• 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.
• A 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 the ability to work with designers, engineers, product management, and business stakeholders to deliver, and enhance new/existing capabilities.
• Learn new technologies as needed and apply them to business solutions. Stay abreast of new/upcoming technologies in the market.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Git Hub Copilot) to accelerate coding workflows, improve code quality, and increase productivity.
• Create and maintain technical specifications, design documents, and documentation using Markdown format to support AI-driven development workflows.
• Detail orientation with strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Proactive ownership, troubleshooting, and resolution of issues that arise.
• Ensure compliance with NYL security standards.

• Experience with the ReactJS framework, HTML5, and CSS3 is a must.
• Experience with C#, Java, and JavaScript is a plus.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Git Hub Copilot) for code generation, refactoring, debugging, and documentation.
• Ability to write clear technical specifications and prompts in Markdown to effectively leverage AI coding assistants for development tasks.
• Understanding of prompt engineering principles to maximize productivity with generative AI tools in software development workflows.
• 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 CI/CD.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting experience.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Demonstrated initiative in identifying technical gaps and proposing actionable solutions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to clearly convey ideas across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science or another related technical field.
• Candidates who have completed full stack development/coding bootcamps or equivalent industry recognized certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer or Solutions architect) will also be considered in lieu of a technical undergraduate degree.
• A master's degree in computer science or related field or any other higher degree preferred, but not mandatory.