Staff Engineer

Role Description

As Staff Engineer you will work independently and with your peers to translate customer needs into technical solutions. This role defines and drives the technical direction of enterprise engineering platforms, focusing on building scalable design and content enablement capabilities that are broadly adopted across the organization.

You will collaborate closely with IT leadership, product managers, and enterprise architecture to influence technical strategy, mentor senior engineers, and ensure delivered solutions support long term platform scalability and business objectives.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Designing Solutions
  • 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.
• Developing Software
  • Use independent, critical thinking to solve complex problems which are significant to the customer.
  • 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.
• Learning and Applying New Techniques
  • Seek out industry and technology knowledge along with best practices to share with the team.
• Collaborating within the Team
  • Coordinate design and integration of the entire system including subsystems.
  • 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.
  • Contribute to detailed application specifications, standards, and diagrams and develop coding standards / best practices.
• Collaborating Across Teams
  • Broker solution design and implementation across product teams to achieve outcomes.
  • Contribute to overall systems design which involves multiple teams.
• Collaborating Across The Organization
  • Act as an SME to provide overall operations and support processes to build resilient systems for the enterprise.
  • Lead the design of critical path/technology for the product group.
  • Help to define the technology/tools roadmap along with the product owner for the team.
• Defining Engineering Standards and Patterns
  • Partner with the engineering community inside and outside Thrivent in establishing best practices.
  • Share engineering standards across internal teams.
• DevOps
  • 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.
• Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors
  • Lead the evaluation process for software solutions.
  • Provide a summary of how a tool impacts business processes and goals.
• Coaching Engineers
  • 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 within the team.
• Recruiting and Building Talent
  • Engage in the tech community to build the Thrivent technology brand.
  • 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of experience in engineering environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing scalable, reusable UI components with JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Proven ability to configure, customize, and support Content Management Systems (CMS).
• Experience architecting software solutions with performance SLOs, high availability, reliability, security, etc.
• Understand data and system integration patterns and technologies.
• Experience with React, Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, GraphQL, Docker, AWS, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Kubernetes, Open Shift, Terraform, Elasticsearch.
• Proficiency in managing large scale projects.
• Strong conceptual, critical thinking, technical and problem-solving skills with good attention to details.

Requirements

• Must be articulate and have the ability to meet with high level management to present and/or deliver technical documentation.

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, and other employee benefits.