Senior Lead Application Developer

About the role

In 2025, USA Today recognized Primerica as a Top Workplace USA for the fifth year in a row, and Newsweek named Primerica one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity for the second consecutive year. In 2024, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution named Primerica as a Top Workplace for the eleventh consecutive year, and Forbes recognized Primerica as one of America’s Best Employers for Women for the fifth year in a row. In addition, for the tenth time Primerica has been voted a Best Employer by Gwinnett Magazine. Primerica is a great place to work!

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and support secure, scalable full-stack applications and APIs using modern engineering practices.
• Lead technical solution design, architecture discussions, and proof-of-concept efforts for complex business and technology initiatives.
• Collaborate with Product, Architecture, DevOps, QA, and business partners to define requirements and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Apply microservices, cloud-native, and full-stack design patterns that promote performance, maintainability, and reusability.
• Conduct code reviews, enforce engineering standards, and ensure compliance with quality, testing, security, and SDLC requirements.
• Troubleshoot application, integration, and deployment issues across development, testing, and production environments.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture artifacts, implementation plans, and release documentation.
• Mentor developers, provide technical leadership, and support hiring, onboarding, and team development activities.
• Participate in on-call support, audit activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 6–10 years of software development experience.
• Proven experience developing secure full-stack applications and leading technical initiatives.
• Demonstrated success mentoring team members and driving project delivery.

Required Technical Skills

• Frontend JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue.js, HTML, CSS/SASS, responsive web development.
• Frontend debugging, performance optimization, and state management.
• Backend Node.js, Express, NestJS, Spring Boot.
• RESTful APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, API testing tools (Postman, Insomnia).
• Unit and integration testing frameworks (Jest, Mocha, JUnit or equivalent).
• DevOps & Platforms Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher.
• Linux, source control (git), CI/CD pipelines.
• Messaging technologies such as Kafka and IBM MQ.
• Security & Quality Secure coding practices and API security standards.
• Performance tuning, troubleshooting, and test-driven development.
• Added Value Experience with either Content Stack or Contentful.

Benefits

• Day one health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) Plan with competitive employer match.
• Vacation, sick, holiday and volunteer time off.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Flexible Spending Account & Health Savings Account.
• Professional development.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Company-sponsored social and philanthropy events.

Pay

This salary range for this role is $140,000 - $145,000.

Schedule

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Skills

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Benefits

• Day one health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) Plan with competitive employer match.
• Vacation, sick, holiday and volunteer time off.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Flexible Spending Account & Health Savings Account.
• Professional development.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Company-sponsored social and philanthropy events.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Primerica, we believe that diversity and inclusion are critical to our future and our mission – creating a foundation for a creative workplace that leads to innovation, growth, and profitability. Through a variety of programs and initiatives, we invest in each employee, seeking to ensure that our people are not only respected as individuals, but also truly valued for their unique perspectives.