Gnw
Lead Software Engineer
New York, New York
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 10 days ago
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About the role
- This role requires deep expertise in modern software development practices, a passion for emerging technologies, and the ability to provide strong technical leadership and mentorship.
- You will play a critical role in shaping the future of the platform, ensuring it is scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable for long-term growth.
- Establish and champion best-in-class engineering practices to ensure systems are modular, scalable, resilient, and flexible.
Responsibilities
- Define and enforce coding standards, architectural patterns, and quality metrics to maintain high engineering standards.
- Lead technical design discussions, perform code reviews, and provide hands-on guidance across the engineering team.
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and contribute to DevSecOps practices.
- Strong technical foundations that support future feature development and platform expansion.
- Accelerate delivery by enabling teams to build on a stable, scalable platform.
- Collaborate with engineering peers, mobile and web teams, and shared services to ensure architectural alignment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Perspective
- A systems-level mindset with the ability to balance short-term delivery needs against long-term architectural health.
- Strong product and business awareness, enabling you to align technical decisions with customer, partner, and organizational goals.
- An ownership-oriented approach that views platform reliability, scalability, and maintainability as shared, long-term responsibilities.
- The ability to anticipate technical risks and proactively design solutions before issues surface at scale.
- Qualities
- Hands-on technical leader who leads by example and is comfortable operating at both strategic and implementation levels.
- Curious, pragmatic, and outcomes-driven, with a passion for continuous learning and improvement.
- Clear and confident communicator who can influence technical direction across teams and stakeholders.
- Resilient and adaptable in fast-moving environments, with a strong bias toward action and accountability.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree is a plus but not required.
Compensation
- For candidates based in the New York City Metropolitan area, the base salary pay range for this role starts at a minimum rate of $180,000 up to the maximum of $205,000.
Benefits
- Own the technical vision and architecture of the Assessment platform.
- We create fulfilling purpose-driven careers by learning from the world and each other.
Company info
- At Genworth, we empower families to navigate the aging journey with confidence.
- We are compassionate, experienced allies for those navigating care with guidance, products, and services that meet families where they are.
- Further, we are the spouses, children, siblings, friends, and neighbors of those that need care-and we bring those experiences with us to work in serving our millions of policyholders each day.
- We apply that same compassion and empathy as we work with each other and our local communities.
- Genworth values all perspectives, characteristics, and experiences so that employees can bring their full, authentic selves to work to help each other and our company succeed.
- We celebrate our diversity and understand that being intentional about inclusion is the only way to create a sense of belonging for all associates.
- We also invest in the vitality of our local communities through grants from the Genworth Foundation, event sponsorships, and employee volunteerism.
- We are seeking a highly experienced and driven Lead Software Engineer to lead the modernization of our Assessment platform.
- Make it human. We care about the people that make up our customers, colleagues, and communities.
- Make it about others. We do what's best for our customers and collaborate to drive progress.
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