Sr Engineer

Thrivent

3d•$104,063 - $140,793

About The Position

As a Senior Engineer on our Experience Engineering Platform Team, you’ll design and build tools that empower other engineering teams to work more efficiently, focusing on continuous deployment, test automation, and DevOps solutions. You’ll administer, steward, and guide our multi-language software monorepo serving multiple organizations, adding to its abilities to build, deploy, and monitor a wide variety of business- and client-facing applications. This role is highly collaborative and autonomous, requiring someone who can architect scalable solutions, bring fresh perspectives, and drive key initiatives. You’ll be a technical expert supporting multiple internal product teams, leveraging your DevOps experience to deliver impactful software. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy making a difference for fellow engineers, we’d love to connect with you.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
7+ years of experience in engineering environments, taking abstract concepts and ideas and formulating a detailed software engineering plan to deliver
Sound knowledge of industry standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices
Sound knowledge of version and revision control practices and procedures
Sound knowledge of systems design concepts that provide security and stability
Expertise in debugging code and/or complex log files for troubleshooting and analysis of product defects
Expert knowledge/experience with querying databases for complex data lookup/update
Perform code reviews with associate team members

Nice To Haves

Financial Services industry experience
Coach / mentor other team members as appropriate

Responsibilities

Designing Solutions Apply technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers
Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy
Developing Software Member of team that can work independently, as well as collaboratively with team, in developing core software for the product that delivers outcomes.
Consistent and dependable in delivering core software that delivers outcomes and meets/exceeds the teams expectations for stability, scalability, resilience, etc.
Learning and Applying New Techniques Shares new ideas and techniques with team; Encourages junior engineers to invest in learning as a part of their job.
Collaborating within the Team Participate in team’s collaboration sessions to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team
Participate in product planning and implementation.
Helps team to understand and decompose work
Defining Engineering Standards and Patterns Contribute to develop engineering practices, templates and frameworks in collaboration with the team.
DevOps Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software; Use data to measure progress
Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process.
Participates in the team support rotation and provides expert knowledge on focus subsystems.
Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors Contribute to define the selection criteria for selecting the right technology vendors .
Participate in proof of concept / technology along with the vendor
Coaching Engineers Provide guidance to junior engineers to help them learn foundational software engineering skills
Provide technical expertise and help the team to solve technical/software issues
Provide trainings to the junior developers and groom them
Provide domain expertise on software products in their area to junior engineers to help them learn/grow their skills and contribute as part of the team.
Recruiting/Building Talent Engage in the tech community to build the Thrivent technology brand and position as the employer of choice in the market
Participate in the interview process or be part of the panel to recruit the right talent to the team
Contribute to the recruitment to define the structure of the interview process to hire the right talent to the team.
Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable.
Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients.
Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.

Benefits

various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives)
medical, dental, and vision insurance
health savings account
flexible spending account
401k
pension
life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
disability insurance
supplemental protection insurance
20 days of Paid Time Off each year
Sick and Safe Time
10 paid company holidays
Volunteer Time Off
paid parental leave
EAP
well-being benefits, and other employee benefits
Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable local, state, or federal law.
Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities.