Staff Engineer

Thrivent is a company focused on helping people thrive with purpose. They are seeking a Staff Engineer to design and build core services for enterprise-wide payment processing, ensuring solutions align with long-term platform strategy and mentoring team members in modern engineering practices.

Responsibilities:

• Apply expert industry knowledge and broad understanding of multiple disciplines with technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers
• Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy
• Design systems and software integration patterns across a diverse software engineering ecosystem. These patterns should align to high level engineering goals and business initiatives
• Use independent, critical thinking to solve complex problems which are significant to the customer. Uses application and system data, as well as past experiences to inform decision making
• Leader in technical expertise; Develops most architecturally impactful components of solutions
• Lead to identify, incorporate and define development frameworks and libraries useful to the product
• Seek out industry and technology knowledge along with best practices to share with the team
• Coordinate design and integration of the entire system including subsystems. Research and recommend technology to improve the current systems
• Participate in team’s collaboration session to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team
• Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps product owner to create technical user stories as required/needed
• Contribute to detailed application specifications, standards, and diagrams and develop coding standards / best practices
• Broker solution design and implementation across product teams to achieve outcomes
• Contribute to overall systems design which involves multiple teams, research and provide customization or development recommendations, and implement accordingly
• Act as an SME to provide over all operations and support processes to build resilient systems for the enterprise
• Lead the design of critical path/technology for the product group. Contribute to innovative solutions that align to strategic objectives for the customer
• Provide platform technology expertise to teams within product group as well as interdependent teams across the organization
• Help to define the technology / tools roadmap along with the product owner for the team
• Partner with the engineering community inside and outside Thrivent in establishing best practices
• Share engineering standards across internal teams and collaborate to help software engineers apply these patterns to build solutions that achieve outcomes
• Lead the resolution of critical incidents and provides leadership in proactively addressing product issues
• Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software
• Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process
• Lead the evaluation process for software solutions - advising on strengths and weaknesses of the external software
• Provide a summary of how a tool impacts business processes and goals
• Contribute in criteria’s for selecting the right platforms and software for the product team
• Provide guidance and reinforcement around established engineering best practices
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other engineers of varying levels inside the product group
• Provide trainings and demos to address knowledge gaps with in the team
• 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
• Take part in the Talent Captain role for the product group. This person also leads in how we interview
• Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable
• Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients. Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of experience in engineering environments, taking abstract concepts and ideas and formulating a detailed software engineering plan to deliver
• Experience architecting software solutions with requirements such as performance SLOs, high availability, reliability, security, etc
• Understand data and system integration patterns and technologies
• 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
• Master's degree in a related field
• Financial Services industry experience
• Coach / mentor other team members as appropriate