We are seeking an Associate Engineer to join the Money Movement team within the Enterprise Payments & Money Movement portfolio. We are looking for someone with a strong growth mindset who is curious, eager to learn, and motivated to continuously develop their skills. You will work alongside experienced engineers to design, build, test, and support modern applications using technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Kafka, event-driven architectures, and CI/CD practices. The ideal candidate brings tenacity and drive, embraces feedback, asks questions, learns from challenges, and is willing to step outside their comfort zone to grow. We are especially interested in candidates who are passionate about AI, have experimented with AI-assisted development tools, and are excited to explore how AI can improve the way software is designed, built, tested, and supported. While foundational technical skills are important, we place a strong emphasis on learning ability, initiative, curiosity, and the determination to grow into a strong engineer.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Designing Software
- Apply foundational technical knowledge while working with other engineers to deliver high-quality solutions and business outcomes.
- Participate in software design, development, testing, and implementation within the team.
- Collaboratively problem solve, ask questions, and seek guidance when needed while building the ability to work more independently over time.
- Demonstrate curiosity and persistence when working through unfamiliar or challenging technical problems.
Developing Software
- Develop, test, and maintain software alongside other engineers using modern engineering practices.
- Build experience with technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Kafka, event-driven architectures, databases, and CI/CD.
- Contribute to code reviews and learn to apply team engineering standards and patterns.
- Take ownership of assigned work and demonstrate tenacity in driving problems through to resolution.
Learning and Applying New Techniques
- Demonstrate a strong growth mindset and actively seek opportunities to learn new technologies, engineering practices, and approaches.
- Actively explore and apply AI-assisted development tools to support learning, problem solving, software development, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting.
- Develop the ability to effectively prompt, evaluate, and validate AI-generated solutions rather than relying on AI output without understanding it.
- Experiment with emerging AI capabilities and share useful techniques, successes, and learnings with the team.
- Seek and apply feedback from teammates and experienced engineers to continuously improve technical skills.
- Share learnings, ideas, and discoveries with the team.
DevOps
- Learn and apply CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and automated testing practices.
- Participate in the team support rotation and continuously build knowledge of the team's systems and capabilities.
- Learn from production issues and use those experiences to improve software quality, resiliency, and supportability.
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.
QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience.
- 0 to 2 years of application engineering experience.
- Foundational understanding of at least one programming language and software development concepts.
- Demonstrated curiosity, initiative, and willingness to continuously learn and develop new technical skills.
- Ability to collaboratively problem solve and demonstrate persistence when working through unfamiliar challenges.
- Willingness to seek, receive, and apply feedback as part of continued growth.
- Knowledge of version control practices and software development lifecycle concepts.
- Foundational understanding of software design, databases, and application development.
Preferred
- Exposure to Java and Spring Boot through professional experience, internships, coursework, or personal projects.
- Exposure to REST APIs, Kafka, event-driven architectures, cloud technologies, or CI/CD practices.
- Experience experimenting with AI and AI-assisted development tools through coursework, personal projects, internships, or professional experience.
- Demonstrated curiosity about AI and an interest in applying it throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Experience using AI to accelerate learning and problem solving while demonstrating the ability to understand, evaluate, and validate generated solutions.
- Personal projects, internships, coursework, open-source contributions, or other examples demonstrating curiosity and continued technical learning.
Pay Transparency
Thrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent. The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $63,886.00 - $86,434.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.
Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives. That extends to our benefits.
The following benefits may be offered: 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. Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents. Thrivent’s plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent’s discretion.
Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable local, state, or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.
Thrivent is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by sending an email to human.resources@thrivent.com or call 800-847-4836 and request Human Resources.
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