Senior Engineer

Role Overview

• As a Senior Engineer on Thrivent’s Enterprise Payments and Money Movement team, you will serve as a technical expert in modern application engineering and distributed payment services.
• You will design and develop business-critical capabilities that securely and reliably move money across Thrivent’s platforms.
• You will apply deep technical knowledge to deliver scalable, stable, and resilient services using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, REST APIs, and SOAP mainframe integrations.
• You will determine specifications, plan and design system components, and develop core software that meets performance, security, and compliance requirements.
• You will work independently and collaboratively with product and engineering peers to solve complex problems, remove technical roadblocks, and ensure solutions align with long-term platform and architecture strategy.
• You will also contribute to engineering standards, improve DevOps and CI/CD practices, and help strengthen the team’s approach to observability, scalability, and reliability.
• In this role you will mentor and up-skill junior engineers by sharing techniques, reviewing code, guiding debugging efforts, and helping them grow foundational engineering skills.
• You will participate in product planning, help decompose work, contribute to vendor evaluations, and support hiring efforts by engaging in the tech community and interview process.
• Your expertise will advance the quality and maturity of Thrivent’s money movement capabilities and support a culture focused on continuous improvement, collaboration, and delivering meaningful outcomes for clients.

Requirements

• 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

Tech Stack

• Java
• Kafka
• SDLC
• SOAP
• Spring
• Spring Boot
• SpringBoot

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