[Hiring] Principal Engineer @Thrivent

Role Description

As a Principal Engineer, you will help establish the engineering vision and act as the bridge between strategic intent and scalable execution in our Customized Experience Platform (CEP). This role drives technical direction and engineering strategy across experience channels with particular focus on:

• Content management
• Digital delivery
• Experimentation
• Mobile app engineering
• Platform observability
• Experience analytics
• Developer experience

You will shape the paved path for teams building web, mobile, and content-driven experiences, ensuring platform investments improve delivery speed, reliability, business value, and measurable customer outcomes. Success in this role requires:

• Strong systems-level judgment
• Ability to operate platforms as products (where engineering teams are your customers)
• Credibility to lead through influence

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of experience in an engineering role
• 5+ years of experience leading high performing technology teams
• Proven record establishing architecture, standards, and reusable patterns for customer-facing digital experience channels
• Demonstrated ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated participation and leadership in the broader technology community
• Meet or exceed all expectations of a Lead Engineer role

Requirements

• Master’s degree in a related field (preferred)
• Financial Services industry experience (preferred)
• Coach/mentor other team members as appropriate, particularly in building analysis skills

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