SENIOR ASSOCIATE - Full Stack Engineer

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per month 

 

 

When you join New York Life, you’re joining a company that values career development, collaboration, innovation, and inclusiveness. We want employees to feel proud about being part of a company that is committed to doing the right thing. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career while developing personally and professionally through various resources and programs. New York Life is a relationship-based company and appreciates how both virtual and in-person interactions support our culture.

 

 

Company Introduction                                     

New York Life Insurance Company (“New York Life” or “the company”) is the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States*. Founded in 1845, New York Life is headquartered in New York City, maintains offices in all fifty states. New York Life is one of the most financially strong and highly capitalized insurers in the business. New York Life holds the highest possible financial strength ratings currently awarded to any life insurer from all four of the major ratings agencies: A.M. Best, A++; Fitch AAA; Moody’s Aaa; Standard & Poor’s AA+. (Source: Individual Third-Party Ratings Report as of 8/11/15). Financial strength, integrity, and humanity—the values upon which New York Life was founded—have guided the company’s decisions and actions for 176 years.

Job Description

We are looking for a Full-stack Engineer to design and execute our company’s modern software development strategy. You will work with our team of talented engineers to design and build the next generation of Insurance applications in the cloud. You will be responsible for the development of the applications in various areas of insurance such as underwriting, risk, pricing and more using modern programming languages to be hosted on cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Azure etc. You will be responsible for the design and deployment of scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems. You will also be responsible for the evaluation of key attributes of existing application architectures, evolution and enhancements to the infrastructure, product ideation and technology stack selection, work with other engineers to define execution architectures and strategies.

The individual should have 2+ years of hands-on application development experience supporting ranging from front-end to back-end technologies and stacks with good experience in designing, developing and operationalizing cloud-native applications using Agile methodologies. This position will be Back-end tech stack focused with a reasonable exposure to Front-end tech stack.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to work with product owners and team members to build industry-leading solutions. 
• Design, implement and manage code within a managed service environment. 
• Build best-in-industry Digital experiences that are truly omni-channel, agile and scalable. 
• Developing front end website architecture.
• Designing user interactions on web pages.
• Developing back-end website applications.
• Creating servers and databases for functionality.
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Collaborate across teams and projects from concept development to project completion. 
• Participate on scrum teams working on short sprints and ensure on time delivery with high quality. 
• Create and maintain project documents and artifacts to capture current state. 
• Troubleshoot issues and work with team to identify and address problems. 

Required Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with web application development using Java / JavaScript / .NET, REST-ful APIs creation using SpringBoot (for Java-based tech stack) or Node (JS-based tech stack)
• Proficiency with server-side languages such as Python, Java
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, JQuery, and JavaScript
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, React with Redux
• Experience with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc.
• Experience with relevant code repository and project tools such as Team Foundation Server, SVN, Git, JIRA
• Ability to integrate APIs, write unit test cases, perform Unit Testing (UT) and System Integration testing (SIT)
• Experience with developing Cloud-native application and very good understanding of Cloud architecture and best practices
• Working experience with Conti