Senior Engineer

• Contribute to developing engineering practices, templates, and frameworks in collaboration with the team. 

• 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 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 

• Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – Modeling the Way, Rallying the Team, and Delivering Outcomes by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable.  ​ 

• Identify and interview candidates for open positions; help define the ideal state for engineers 

Designing Solutions  

• Apply technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers  

• Ability to work and problem solve collaboratively on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy 

• Consistent and dependable in delivering core software that delivers outcomes and meets/exceeds the teams' expectations for stability, scalability, resilience, etc. 

• Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps team to understand and decompose work 

Learning and Applying New Techniques  

• Shares innovative ideas and techniques with team; Encourages junior engineers to invest in learning as a part of their job. 

• Quickly pick up new concepts, innovative technologies and apply them to well-known problems 

DevSecOps  

• 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. 

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:  
Required:  

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or other technical field or equivalent work experience  

• 5+ 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 Agile practices  

• Sound knowledge of version control tools, practices, and procedures 

• Sound knowledge of systems design concepts that provide security and stability 

• Expertise in supporting complex systems using modern tools and techniques 

• Knowledge of relational database platforms and data modeling  

• Proficiency in java, including frameworks such as Spring and Spring Boot 

• Extensive Software testing and debugging knowledge  

• Expertise in REST API design and implementation  

• Knowledge of event-driven and streaming platforms such as RabbitMQ and Kafka 

Preferred: 

• Expertise in cloud-native architectures and infrastructure-as-code 

• Familiarity with event-driven and streaming architectures and domain driven design 

• Experience coaching and mentoring other engineers 

• Experience with NoSQL database platforms  

• Knowledge in scripting languages such as python and javascript 

Bonus: 

• Non-profit experience 

• Developer community or open-source contributions