[Hiring] Senior Engineer @Thrivent

Role Description

As a Sr Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader in advancing our Backstage developer platform, bringing deep hands-on experience developing and delivering solutions within Backstage. You will be a key driver in building the next iteration of our developer self-service platform using Backstage as the entry point to automate the end-to-end journey from creating a new service through production readiness, as well as bringing existing services into alignment with recommended engineering patterns.

You will also help shape the evolution of our developer platform by identifying opportunities to improve the developer experience, usability, and adoption of Backstage. You will collaborate across engineering and platform teams to establish technical direction, develop scalable solutions, and raise the organization’s Backstage engineering capabilities.

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 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 meets/exceeds the team's 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience hands-on engineering in Backstage.
• Experience working in a highly regulated industry.
• Experience coaching and mentoring other team members.

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.