Senior Lead Engineer

Guardian

5 - 10 years

Gurugram

Posted: 06/07/2025

Job Description

Job Description:

Key Qualifications

At least 10+ years of engineering experience
Strong object-oriented programming, functional programming, and design skills.
Significant experience with Kotlin, Java, JetPack Compose, Activities/Fragments, and more Android SDKs.
Significant experience building and deploying apps to Google Play.
Significant experience creating user experiences that are pixel perfect, follow clear information architecture, and utilize established platform conventions.
Significant experience architecting mobile apps from File → New Project to shipped to customers.
Strong understanding of patterns, MVC, MVVM, functional, and reactive programming.
Significant experience calling, writing, and debugging REST APIs.
Significant experience with HTML/JS/CSS apps. You are not expected to build web apps but will have to integrate with web apps.
Understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of cross platform frameworks, e.g. Flutter, React Native, and Kotlin Native.
Strong communication skills Passion for quality and attention to detail.
Experience writing multi-threaded, asynchronous code.
Track record in debugging and optimizing code for performance using instrumentation.
Understanding of the authentication and security challenges for native and web apps.
Strong working experience with cross organizations and several teams across the company.

Daily activities include:

Reviewing software engineer's pull requests and mentoring them on best practices.
Writing stories for software engineers to implement, including yourself.
Reviewing upcoming designs to provide feedback on conformance to mobile platform UX patterns.
Building apps for release to internal deployment sites and the App Store/Google Play, including TestFlight and Non-Prod Release Channels.
Triaging customer feedback, customer incidents, and crash reports.
Complete more technically challenging stories.
Performance test code for bottlenecks.
Monitor unit & UI test code coverage and drive higher coverage percentages.
Deliver an automated build pipeline for mobile apps.
Evaluate cross-platform technologies
Evaluate latest changes to the Apple & Google SDKs and suggest new features

Location:

This position can be based in any of the following locations:

Gurgaon

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

About Company

Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, commonly known as Guardian Life, is a mutual life insurance company headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1860, it provides a variety of financial products and services, including life insurance, disability insurance, dental and vision plans, retirement plans, and employee benefits. Guardian Life focuses on helping individuals, families, and businesses secure their financial futures by offering tailored insurance solutions. The company is known for its strong customer service and financial stability, with a long history of providing life and health insurance to its policyholders.