Senior Associate, Full-stack Developer

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per month 

Our New York Life culture has laid the foundation for over 180 years of commitment to our employees, agents, policy owners, and the communities where we live and work. Here you become a valued part of a welcoming, inclusive, and caring organization with a long-standing legacy in stability and growth. The strength revolves around our diversified, multi-dimensional business portfolio that goes beyond life insurance.

As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide an environment where you can explore your career ambitions, offering opportunities to tackle meaningful challenges and stretch your skills while balancing work and life priorities.  You will be part of an inclusive team guided by our belief to always be there for each other–providing the support and flexibility to grow and reach new heights while making an impact in the lives of others.

You are our future, and we commit to investing in you accordingly. 

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.


Role Summary:

We are looking for a Developer 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 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, and working with other engineers to define execution architectures and strategies.

The individual should have at least 2 years of hands-on application development experience 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 front-end tech stack focused with reasonable exposure to back-end tech stack.

What you’ll do:

• Strong interpersonal skills with the 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.
• Develop front-end website architecture.
• Design user interactions on web pages.
• Develop back-end website applications.
• Create servers and databases for functionality.
• Ensure cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
• Ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Work alongside graphic designers for web design features.
• Design and develop APIs.
• Collaborate across teams and projects from concept development to project completion.
• Participate in scrum teams working on short sprints and ensure on-time delivery with high quality.
• Create and maintain project documents and artifacts to capture the current state.
• Troubleshoot issues and work with the team to identify and address problems.
  
  

What you’ll bring:

• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, JQuery, and JavaScript.
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, ReactJS, React with Redux.
• Strong hands-on experience with web application development using Java / JavaScript / .NET, RESTful APIs creation using SpringBoot (for Java-based tech stack) or Node (JS-based tech stack), Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 3.5/4.0 (for Microsoft-based tech stack).
• Experience with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc.