Technical Lead - Software Engineering

Technical Lead

Reports To: Value Stream D&T Leader
Career Stage: Technical Leadership / Product-Level Engineering Lead
 

Role Summary

As a Tech Lead, you’ll serve as the hands-on technical leader for a product or platform within Guardian’s Digital & Technology organization. You’ll guide engineers in building secure, scalable, and high-performing solutions, while ensuring engineering practices align to Guardian’s architectural and delivery standards. Working closely with the Value Stream D&T Leader and Product Managers, you’ll translate business outcomes into technical execution and foster a culture of engineering excellence.

You Will

• Lead the design, development, and technical delivery for one or more agile squads.
• Define and enforce coding standards, best practices, application support and test automation strategies.
• Manage all team level dependencies in partnership with Product Owner.
• Continuous look for opportunities to optimize the team
• Collaborate with Product and COEs, Data, AI, Architecture, and QA teams to ensure technical alignment.
• Conduct design and code reviews to maintain quality, scalability, support and security.
• Mentor engineers, fostering skill development and technical depth across the team.
• Troubleshoot complex issues and implement long-term, sustainable solutions.
• Drive adoption of SDLC practices CI/CD, and cloud-native solutions.
• Contribute to technical roadmaps, influencing architecture and modernization decisions.
• Write and deploy code or configuration to support the product teams

You Have

• 9–12 years of software engineering experience, including several in a technical leadership role.
• Deep hands-on expertise in modern programming languages such asJava, Python, and Node.js, and modern frameworks.
• Strong understanding of AI, Data, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience working in cloud-based environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and improve team performance.
• Excellent collaboration skills with cross-functional teams in agile settings.

Location: 

• Hybrid – Three days a week at a Guardian Location in New York, NY, Holmdel, NJ or Bethlehem, PA.

Salary Range:

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 [email protected]. Please note: this resource is for accommodation requests only. For all other inquires related to your application and careers at Guardian, refer to the Guardian Careers site.

Visa Sponsorship

Guardian is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment visas. In order to be a successful applicant. you must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship.

Notice Regarding Guardian’s Use of Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment

As part of Guardian’s job application process, Guardian may use artificial intelligence tools (“AI Tools) to automate the sorting and filtering of information provided by applicants as part of its preliminary screening. This preliminary screening may be used to help identify applicant materials and resumes relative to their indication that the applicant meets the requirements for the specific job for which they are applying, as specified in the listing posted on Guardian’s jobs website (Careers at Guardian at https://www.guardianlife.com/careers). At Guardian, we do not use AI Tools to substantially assist or replace human judgment or discretionary decision making in our hiring process. All hiring decisions will be made by Guardian colleagues.

Please be aware that if you apply for a specific position with Guardian, you will have the choice of opting out of Guardian’s use of AI Tools during the job application process. If you would like to request an alternative process that does not utilize AI Tools or would like to request a reasonable accommodation, within ten business days of your position application, you must email your request to [email protected], making sure to provide your name and job requisition identification number. Guardian will retain your applicant materials and resume and all information therefrom in accordance with Guardian’s document retention policy, a copy of which you may request via [email protected].

Additionally, at applicable times, Guardian will make public the most recent bias audit results for such AI tools, which may be found here. 

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