Guardian Life

Lead Engineer - IT

Gurgaon Full time

Job Description:

Job Profile Summary 

In this role you will be working on native apps for Android to build compelling user experiences for all our product line's customers. You will be collaborating with designers, testers, products owners, architects, executives, network engineers, deployment engineers, and software engineers in a fast paced, technically demanding environment.

Key Skills:  

  • At least 6-8 years of engineering experience
  • Strong object-oriented programming, functional programming, and design skills.
  • Significant experience with Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit and the iOS/iPadOS SDKs.
  • Significant experience building and deploying apps to the App Store.
  • 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.
  • Good understanding of code versioning tools
  • Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards
  • Strong understanding of patterns, MVC, MVVM, functional, and reactive programming.
  • Significant experience calling, writing, and debugging REST APIs.
  • Strong communication skills, a passion for quality, and attention to detail.
  • Experience writing multi-threaded, asynchronous code.
  • Track record in debugging and optimizing code for performance using Instruments.
  • Understanding of the authentication and security challenges for native and web apps.  
  • Strong working experience with cross organizations and several teams across the company.
  • Experience using AI‑powered engineering tools like GitHub Copilot for code generation, reviews, and automation.

Roles and responsibilities:

  • Design and build applications for the iOS platform
  • Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
  • Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
  • Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
  • Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
  • Work Shift – will need to work in overlapping time zone with US at different intervals

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