Staff Engineer

Thrivent

70d • $118,105 - $159,788

About The Position

As a Staff Engineer on Thrivent’s Transactional Content Services team, you’ll lead the technical delivery of document management and workflow solutions that support millions of client, advisor, and Home Office transactions across life, health, annuity, mutual fund, and brokerage products. Leveraging your expertise in Java, REST, SOAP, Kafka, and Spring frameworks, you’ll develop scalable backend systems and contribute to front-end platforms, collaborating with engineering peers and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure solutions align with enterprise requirements and long-term vision. You’ll provide mentorship, champion best practices in Agile and DevOps, and help drive automation and reliability, making a direct impact on Thrivent’s ability to process business efficiently and securely in a highly regulated environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of experience in engineering environments, taking abstract concepts and ideas and formulating a detailed software engineering plan to deliver.
• Experience architecting software solutions with requirements such as performance SLOs, high availability, reliability, security, etc.
• Understand data and system integration patterns and technologies.
• Proficiency in managing large scale projects.
• Ability to articulate and transfer complex ideas to a wide audience through both verbal and written communication.
• Strong conceptual, critical thinking, technical and problem-solving skills with good attention to details.
• Must be articulate and have the ability to meet with high level management to present and/or deliver technical documentation.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in a related field.
• Financial Services industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Designing Solutions: Apply expert industry knowledge and broad understanding of multiple disciplines with technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers.
• Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy.
• Design systems and software integration patterns across a diverse software engineering ecosystem.
• Developing Software: Use independent, critical thinking to solve complex problems which are significant to the customer.
• Leader in technical expertise; Develops most architecturally impactful components of solutions.
• Lead to identify, incorporate and define development frameworks and libraries useful to the product.
• Learning and Applying New Techniques: Seek out industry and technology knowledge along with best practices to share with the team.
• Collaborating within the Team: Coordinate design and integration of the entire system including subsystems.
• Research and recommend technology to improve the current systems.
• Participate in team’s collaboration session to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team.
• Participate in product planning and implementation.
• Helps product owner to create technical user stories as required/needed.
• Contribute to detailed application specifications, standards, and diagrams and develop coding standards / best practices.
• Collaborating Across Teams: Broker solution design and implementation across product teams to achieve outcomes.
• Contribute to overall systems design which involves multiple teams, research and provide customization or development recommendations, and implement accordingly.
• Act as an SME to provide overall operations and support processes to build resilient systems for the enterprise.
• Setting product/platform technology strategy.
• Lead the design of critical path/technology for the product group.
• Contribute to innovative solutions that align to strategic objectives for the customer.
• Provide platform technology expertise to teams within product group as well as interdependent teams across the organization.
• Help to define the technology/tools roadmap along with the product owner for the team.
• Defining Engineering Standards and Patterns: Partner with the engineering community inside and outside Thrivent in establishing best practices.
• Share engineering standards across internal teams and collaborate to help software engineers apply these patterns to build solutions that achieve outcomes.
• DevOps: Lead the resolution of critical incidents and provides leadership in proactively addressing product issues.
• Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software.
• Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process.
• Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors: Lead the evaluation process for software solutions - advising on strengths and weaknesses of the external software.
• Provide a summary of how a tool impacts business processes and goals.
• Contribute in criteria’s for selecting the right platforms and software for the product team.
• Coaching Engineers: Provide guidance and reinforcement around established engineering best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers of varying levels inside the product group.
• Provide trainings and demos to address knowledge gaps within the team.
• Recruiting and 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.
• Take part in the Talent Captain role for the product group.
• Model Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable.
• Support and/or develop an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients.
• Shape and/or support 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees