Job Description:
The Role and Team
The Digital Shared Services team is looking for a highly motivated Full Stack Engineer to join a dynamic, globally distributed team of IT professionals responsible for the development and maintenance of the WI Digital Shared Services platform. As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will use innovative technologies to provide a first-class digital experience for clients and customers. You will be involved in building or enhancing 401k business capabilities in the Workplace Investing business domain. In an agile structure, you will collaborate with other technology and business teams to establish development standards, participate in strategic decisions, and build solutions across business capabilities. You are committed to developing your own expertise and bringing the latest thinking to empower others with that knowledge. We focus on building scalable and innovative solutions that help millions of customers plan and invest for retirement, manage, and transact from their 401k accounts.
This position is based out of Westlake, Texas.
The Expertise and Skills You Bring
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technology discipline.
7+ years of software development experience on business-critical, enterprise-wide applications.
Strong knowledge of Java coding practices for mid-tier applications that perform business logic and calculations. Note: This role is not for UI/Front-End developers.
Knowledge of building .NET APIs is a plus.
Expertise in building scalable, server-side enterprise applications and domain logic-intensive RESTful APIs.
Experience leading and mentoring a team of developers.
Experience with re-platforming large applications.
Expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining high-volume transactional systems.
Experience in developing cloud-neutral applications in AWS and Azure.
Ability to debug through legacy systems and capture current state to aid with modernization.
Actively participates in and contributes to formal reviews of architecture, design, and code.
Experience with Mainframe applications.
Publishes clear, concise, and thorough design documentation.
Provides support for software releases into production environments.
Cultivates teamwork and collaboration across global development teams, business, and systems partners.
Experience building technology solutions in the financial services industry is preferred.
Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies is preferred.
The Value You Deliver
Experience with designing and developing RESTful APIs.
Experience in design patterns and principles such as OO, DD, SOA, Microservices, etc.
Experience developing skills in Java, Spring MVC, Spring Core, and Spring Boot.
Experience developing software utilizing OOA, OOD, and OOP principles and design patterns.
Experience developing software utilizing relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, or Sybase).
Experience developing software applications with popular IDEs (Eclipse/IntelliJ).
Experience with source control systems such as Git.
CI/CD experience using Azure DevOps and Jenkins.
Understanding of Microservices Architecture and Domain-Driven Design patterns.
Developing and deploying 12-factor, containerized (Docker, Kubernetes) APIs to AWS/Azure.
Collaboration with producer and consumer teams to implement end-to-end solutions in a customer-obsessed environment.
Experience developing software utilizing relational databases.
Experience with test automation for unit, functional, and non-functional testing (SOATEST, SOASTA, Cucumber).
Ability to develop technical artifacts based on analysis of business and systems requirements.
Aptitude to Client and document implementations from legacy systems, C++, Java, and .NET as part of re-platforming efforts.
Knowledge of current technologies and evolving trends.
Ability to quickly learn new concepts and technologies.
Detail-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Strong organizational skills coupled with effective written and verbal communication skills.
Must be an organized self-starter with a collaborative work style and the ability to multitask.
Strong team player and collaborator.