Hybrid Platform Engineer & Enablement Lead

Guardian Life; Bethlehem (Northampton County); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Guardian Life is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to improve the engineering experience by delivering reusable platform capabilities, tooling, and integrations. This role blends hands-on software development with technical leadership to boost developer productivity and platform adoption across distributed teams.

The position requires designing scalable solutions, mentoring engineers, and driving initiatives from discovery through production.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating production software systems.
• Strong software development skills using languages such as C#, TypeScript, Java, Python, Go, Kotlin, or similar.
• Experience building and supporting production services, APIs, integrations, and automation solutions.
• Proven ability to drive technical initiatives from requirements gathering through deployment.
• Experience collaborating across multiple engineering teams and organizational boundaries.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience creating technical documentation, implementation plans, and architectural designs.
• Experience working with globally distributed engineering teams.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in environments with evolving requirements and incomplete information.

Responsibilities

• Design and build reusable platform capabilities, services, APIs, integrations, tooling, and automation.
• Apply appropriate architectural patterns and modern engineering practices to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Contribute production-quality code and support solutions through deployment, operational readiness, and adoption.
• Improve developer workflows and platform usability through targeted technical solutions and reusable components.
• Lead assigned strategic engineering initiatives from approved scope through production delivery.
• Develop implementation plans, sequence work into achievable phases, and coordinate dependencies across teams.
• Partner with application, platform, architecture, and engineering teams to identify challenges and opportunities.
• Conduct discovery to clarify user needs, stakeholders, constraints, dependencies, and success criteria.
• Translate engineering and business needs into solution requirements and technical recommendations.
• Build alignment on priorities and gather feedback to shape solutions and future improvements.
• Present technical recommendations, designs, and implementation approaches to engineers and stakeholders.
• Create clear documentation, implementation guides, onboarding materials, and reusable engineering patterns.
• Facilitate technical discussions and help teams navigate adoption of new capabilities.
• Communicate project status, risks, decisions, and outcomes effectively in both synchronous and asynchronous environments.
• Share lessons learned, best practices, and reusable approaches across teams.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions.
• Promote engineering standards, best practices, and reusable patterns.
• Help establish scalable approaches for platform adoption and engineering enablement.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering processes, tooling, and developer workflows.
• Support operational excellence through reliability, observability, documentation, and maintainability practices.

Skills

C#

TypeScript

Java

Python

Go

Kotlin

Production services

APIs

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Guardian Life is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to improve the engineering experience by delivering reusable platform capabilities, tooling, and integrations. This role blends hands-on software development with technical leadership to boost developer productivity and platform adoption across distributed teams.

The position requires designing scalable solutions, mentoring engineers, and driving initiatives from discovery through production.