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Lead Backend API Developer

About the team:

Group Benefits API Team is responsible for APIs and Integrations supporting Web Applications enabling Guardian’s Group Business. We support our end-to-end Business with APIs for Quote, Policy, Customer, Eligibility and Claims. Group Business intake channels such as Customer-facing portal applications, call center applications, IVR and chatbots are all powered by our APIs and provide unified customer experience.

Our team is growing, and we are looking for versatile Lead Software Engineer skilled in Java based technologies, who are driven, who want to make a difference and code with purpose.

We are passionate about the Customer. We do the right thing, believe people count and go above and beyond for the people we serve.

You are:

  • An experienced backend Lead Java Engineer who has experience leading high-performance teams with a track record of delivering quality software with speed to market
  • Highly skilled engineer with strong foundation of Computer Science and Software Development Life cycle concepts
  • An individual who is collaborative and can work across the firm with Enterprise Architects, Business Product Owners, Platform, Security and Production support to enable delivery of a cohesive customer centric product

You will:

  • Lead an agile team as part of an Agile Release Train
  • Build well-designed, well-engineered, robust, scalable software integration solutions that are Production ready
  • Engineer application integrations using messaging solutions, events, and REST APIs
  • Work closely with the Business Teams and Solution Architecture to ensure alignment with the Product Roadmap and design blueprint
  • Mentor and coach developers and analysts, assign tasks, follow industry standard processes, and perform code reviews
  • Triage end to end system integration issues across various middleware systems and infrastructure

You have:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
  • 15 + years of Experience as J2EE Software Engineer
  • Understanding of Agile and SAFE Methodologies   
  • Industry experience with implementing Rest APIs, Data Driven Design, Microservices Architecture, Enterprise Integration Patterns and Event Driven Architecture
  • Experience designing user friendly APIs using Open API Swagger Specifications
  • Experience integrating with messaging platforms such as ActiveMQ, IBM MQ
  • Experience with Docker containers and AWS Cloud services S3, Lambda, SQS/SNS, Redis Cache.
  • Experience using SQL and NoSQL Databases
  • Apache Camel, Tibco Business Works, MuleSoft or similar EAI framework
  • Experience with Rules engines such as OpenL, Drools or Blaze
  • Experience with version control and CI/CD automation tools such as Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins and Maven
  • Experience with API Security frameworks, token management and user access control including OAuth 2.0, JWT
  • Experience with monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, Zenoss

Salary Range:

$116,350.00 - $191,155.00

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 applicant_accommodation@glic.com.

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

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