Senior Associate - Full Stack Engineer

Location: 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.

Responsibilities

• Write clean, well-tested & secure code, exhibit ownership from requirements to development.
• Deeply understand existing architecture on the back end as well as the front-end side to be able to enhance and improve architecture going forward with a key focus on scalability and quality.
• Gain an in-depth understanding of the requirements around user experience to deliver high quality, cross-platform optimized and responsive web front-end experience.
• Focus on getting the required depth of functional expertise to effectively suggest solutions to business problems/requirements.
• Work with designers, engineers, product management, and business stakeholders to deliver and enhance new/existing capabilities.
• Learn new technologies as needed and apply them to business solutions. Stay abreast of new/upcoming technologies in the market.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate coding workflows, improve code quality, and increase productivity.
• Create and maintain technical specifications, design documents, and documentation using Markdown format to support AI-driven development workflows.
• Demonstrate detail orientation with strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Proactively own, troubleshoot, and resolve issues that arise.
• Ensure compliance with NYL security standards.

Requirements

• Experience with the ReactJS framework, HTML5, and CSS3 is a must.
• Experience with C#, Java, and JavaScript is a plus.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) for code generation, refactoring, debugging, and documentation.
• Ability to write clear technical specifications and prompts in Markdown to effectively leverage AI coding assistants for development tasks.
• Understanding of prompt engineering principles to maximize productivity with generative AI tools in software development workflows.
• Experience with content management is a plus.
• Experience in designing and implementing microservices is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of designing secure and performant RESTful APIs, with expertise in authentication and authorization (e.g., OAuth, JWT, SSO).
• Strong expertise with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• Familiarity with DevOps principles, including version control (GitHub), and CI/CD.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting experience.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Demonstrated initiative in identifying technical gaps and proposing actionable solutions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to clearly convey ideas across technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science or another related technical field.
• Candidates who have completed full stack development/coding bootcamps or equivalent industry recognized certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer or Solutions Architect) will also be considered in lieu of a technical undergraduate degree.
• A master's degree in computer science or related field is preferred, but not mandatory.

Pay

Salary Range: $100,000 - $143,000

Overtime eligible: Exempt

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes

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.