IT Software Engineer
About The Position
Nelnet is a diversified and innovative company committed to enriching lives through the power of service. We are a tech-first team that is transforming financial services technology. Things move fast here so we’re agile and innovative in how we work, focusing on inspecting and adapting for improvement in a rapidly changing environment. We’re helping our clients compete in the digital marketplace by using the latest technology, methodologies, and processes to deliver the next generation platform in the financial services industry. As a Full-Stack Developer at Nelnet, you will build the next generation platform in the lending industry. You’ll work closely with Product Owners, Technical Leadership and other team members to better understand their needs in order to create new products that will impact the lives of millions of customers. You will participate in the development of cloud native products using microservices architecture and other leading-edge technologies and practices.
Requirements
- Minimum of 3 years total experience delivering enterprise class web applications with at least 1 year working with ES6/7 JavaScript, TypeScript and/or similar technologies
- 1-3 years of experience with Node.JS and Docker
- 3 years current experience building single page applications with popular JS frameworks and libraries (React, Angular, Ember, Babel, Webpack, Underscore, etc.)
- Previous experience with Microservices, preferably with frameworks such as Seneca.js or Moleculer
- Experience with AWS toolset and AWS Lambda or containerization tool experience preferred.
- Innovator and experimenter. Strong desire to learn, push the envelope, and try new things
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Passion for quality and writing clean, solid, readable code that scales and performs well.
- Solid fundamental understanding of testing (including stubbing, functional, unit, and e2e)
- Practical experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
- Solid understanding of the full web technology stack (e.g. HTTP, cookies, asset loading, caching, REST)
- Experience using CI/CD tools and systems such as Jenkins, Hudson, GitLab, GitHub, etc.
- Experience with HTML5, CSS3, SASS/LESS, Bootstrap, and cross-browser and device development
- Solid understanding of object-oriented design and programming concepts, core JavaScript concepts like scope/closures, the event loop and asynchronous callbacks, promises.
- Strong database knowledge (table design, complex query creation, best practices)
Responsibilities
- Architecting solutions and execution through hands-on development, quality assurance, and prototyping
- Delivering code in an Agile framework using test-driven development methodologies.
- Participating in development life cycle activities like design, coding, testing, code review, production, release and production support.
- Partnering closely with product to craft great product experiences.
- Participating and promoting architectural initiatives, balancing long-term velocity with short-term customer needs
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- HSA and FSA
- generous earned time off
- 401K/student loan repayment
- life insurance & AD&D insurance
- employee assistance program
- employee stock purchase program
- tuition reimbursement
- performance-based incentive pay
- short- and long-term disability
- a robust wellness program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
