Senior Associate - Full-Stack Developer

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week

About the role

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.

Join the Strategic Analytics team at New York Life as a Senior Full-Stack Developer and help us create powerful, interactive analytics applets that drive strategic business decisions. In this role, you'll build intuitive, high-impact user interfaces with React and Streamlit, while also architecting robust, cloud-native backends using Kubernetes, DynamoDB, Jenkins, and modern DevOps tools. You'll collaborate with analytics engineers, business stakeholders, and data scientists to deliver enterprise-grade products that power decisions across sales, marketing, finance, and more. You'll be joining a highly collaborative, agile team of technologists and analytics experts with a passion for building the future of data-driven decision-making at New York Life.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain front-end applications using React and Streamlit to visualize key insights and analytics
• Develop APIs leveraging FastAPI for analytics web applications
• Collaborate with data teams to integrate front-end components with cloud-based backends, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security
• Build and manage APIs, workflows, and services leveraging tools such as Kubernetes, DynamoDB, Jenkins, and containerized environments
• Work with cross-functional partners to define product requirements, structure dashboards, and deliver intuitive, insight-rich applications
• Champion UI/UX best practices, ensuring that end-user experiences are simple, elegant, and highly functional
• Lead code reviews and contribute to the overall improvement of software development practices within the team
• Identify opportunities to optimize existing platforms and recommend innovative solutions to meet emerging business needs
• Act as a thought partner and technical advisor to business and analytics stakeholders

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 5+ years of experience as a full-stack developer with a strong portfolio of interactive applications or tools
• Experience in React.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, and web development fundamentals
• Proficient in Streamlit or other Python-based UI frameworks for data visualization
• Solid experience with back-end technologies, including Kubernetes (EKS), DynamoDB, containerization, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins)
• Experience building and deploying applications in cloud environments (AWS preferred)
• Familiarity with API design, microservices architecture, and DevOps workflows
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Proven ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience integrating with analytics tools or working in data-focused product environments
• Understanding of cloud-native architecture and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform)
• Exposure to GenAI tools and interest in integrating AI-enhanced workflows into applications
• Passion for data visualization, analytics, and building tools that empower business users

Pay

Salary Range: $124,000-$177,000

Overtime eligible: Exempt

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes

Sales bonus eligible: No

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Benefits

We provide a full package of benefits for employees—and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.