Associate Developer Engineer: Mainframe & Cloud Hybrid

New York Life Insurance Co.; Lebanon (NJ); Hybrid; USD 81,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

New York Life Insurance Co. in New Jersey is seeking an Associate – Developer Engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise applications that support critical business capabilities.

You will work across legacy mainframe tech and modern stacks, contributing to APIs, services, and integrations with cloud platforms. The role emphasizes upskilling in PL1, COBOL, Java/.NET, Python, and AWS, with focus on reliability, security, and scalability.

Qualifications

• Experience with mainframe and modern integration tooling.
• Ability to design, develop and test enterprise applications.
• Willingness to upskill across full-stack development and cloud APIs.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, enhance, and maintain enterprise applications supporting critical business capabilities.
• Develop and support solutions utilizing Angular/.net, CICS API, Mulesoft, Lambda, Python, AWS technologies.
• Participate in APIs, services, and integration solutions exposing mainframe functionality to digital platforms.
• Upskill and contribute to full-stack development including UI, middleware, APIs, and backend systems.
• Perform root cause analysis, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and production support.
• Ensure solutions meet reliability, security, maintainability, and scalability standards.
• Participate in architecture discussions and end-to-end solution designs.
• Analyze requirements, translate to scalable technical solutions, and document designs.
• Support modernization initiatives and collaborate with architects to align with standards.

Skills

Mainframe tech

APIs & integration

Cloud & AWS

Backend development

Tools

PL1

ASM

COBOL

JCL

CICS

DB2

VSAM

MQ

Angular

.NET

Python

AWS

Mulesoft

Lambda

Job description

New York Life Insurance Co. in New Jersey is seeking an Associate – Developer Engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise applications that support critical business capabilities.

You will work across legacy mainframe tech and modern stacks, contributing to APIs, services, and integrations with cloud platforms. The role emphasizes upskilling in PL1, COBOL, Java/.NET, Python, and AWS, with focus on reliability, security, and scalability.