[Hiring] Senior Engineer @Thrivent

Role Description

As a Senior Engineer, you will serve as a technical expert across one or more areas of application and systems engineering. You will provide architectural guidance, influence technology decisions, and recommend solutions that align with long-term enterprise strategy. This role involves defining specifications, designing and developing business-critical technology solutions, and collaborating closely with product and engineering teams to deliver scalable, high-quality outcomes.

As part of the Enterprise Engineering Platforms organization, you will focus on building and evolving scalable design and content enablement capabilities that can be leveraged across the enterprise. You will combine industry best practices, prior experience, and internal expertise to create reusable platform solutions that drive consistency, efficiency, and adoption.

You will partner with engineering leaders, architects, product teams, and enterprise stakeholders to ensure solutions are aligned with strategic platform objectives, integrate effectively across the technology landscape, and support the organization's long-term vision. The role requires balancing immediate business needs with sustainable platform investments, while championing engineering excellence, scalability, reliability, and reusability.

Duties & 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 engineering strategy
• Implementing Solutions
  • Member of team that can work independently, as well as collaboratively with team, in developing core technology solutions for the products that delivers outcomes
  • Consistent and dependable in delivering core technology solutions 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 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.

Qualifications

• 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
• Demonstrated expertise in developing scalable, reusable UI components with JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Proven ability to configure, customize, and support Content Management Systems (CMS) to enable efficient content creation and delivery.
• Experience with React, Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, GraphQL, Docker, AWS, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Kubernetes, Open Shift, Terraform, Elastic search
• 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
• 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.

Requirements

• Financial Services industry experience
• Familiarity with Digital Asset Management
• Coach / mentor other team members as appropriate

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
• Other employee benefits