Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack Engineer Digital Platforms Technology team designs, develops, implements, and supports WI’s suite of Digital products and services. The Digital Platforms development team focuses on delivering innovative solutions that meet the needs of our customers. Our systems professionals thrive, with a steadfast dedication to innovation, which champions a culture of continuous improvement and significant achievement. We see ourselves as a vital link to the customers. This is a fast-paced group that is using ground-breaking technologies to build powerful tools and outstanding user experiences for our customers, using Java-based technologies.

The Expertise We’re Looking For BS/BA Degree or equivalent experience preferred

Robust critical thinking skills coupled with a desire for growth, to learn and to engage with peers in technical and design discussions

Demonstrated experience in communicating technical needs and capabilities to non-technical team members, product owners, and partners

Ability to utilize a long-term mentality to help produce scalable, maintainable solutions

Passion to provide guidance on standard methodologies and mentoring support to the other Developers within the wider Digital Platforms Technology team

2+ years of experience, with a focus in financial services applications

The Purpose of Your Role In this role, you will serve as a Software Engineer who will play a key role on a Scrum team and within Digital Platforms Technology. You will work closely with the Squad Lead, Scrum Master, Systems Analyst, Quality Assurance, Architects and other Developers, to craft, build, test, and deliver the features that make up Digital experiences. You will be a member of the Financial Wellness Tribe, supporting the One Stop Life Shop Domain. You will work with other Tribe members to build out integrated PWI experiences that provide the best planning resources for our customers.

The Skills You Bring Your background in the following will prove vital:

Experience collaborating in a team environment to develop, deploy, and support key applications and features

A demonstrable understanding of the Agile software development methodology

Extensive experience decomposing sophisticated business problems into creative, efficient, and scalable solutions

Proficiency with server-side/mid-tier languages, frameworks, libraries, and related technologies: Java EE, Apache Tomcat, Spring MVC/Spring Boot, Logback, SLF4j, Maven

Client-side language, library, and framework proficiency: Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node, NPM, HTML/CSS, RxJS

Appreciation for and alignment to standard methodologies regarding object-oriented design, coding standards, RESTful service consumption and integration, common design patterns, secure application development, and test coverage

Your familiarity with the following will be a plus:

DevOps concepts governing SCM, continuous integration, monitoring, and deployment processes

Enterprise application architecture patterns and orchestration frameworks such as Apache Camel

Client-side unit testing frameworks and test runners like Jasmine and Karma

Docker containerization and AWS cloud deployment and application management via the AWS console

AWS certification(s)

The W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and their implementation

The Value You Deliver Knowledge of internet, mobile, and application architecture, as well as current and emerging technologies

Grasp of the software development process including analysis, design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution and planning

Use of formal methods (traditional structured or Agile/iterative) for delivering new or enhanced applications, identify and communicating systems development processes and developing work you're doing associated with the respective phases of the lifecycle

Ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups, both in person and virtually, in a constructive and collaborative manner

Strong analytical skills and ability to tackle issues and work through ambiguous situations by making timely decisions based on facts, knowledge, experience and judgment

Can communicate in various settings; one-on-one, small and large groups, with peers, and senior management

Skilled at influencing team members and external groups

Proactively navigates the organization in order to accomplish tasks

Willingness to work on multiple efforts simultaneously

Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Desire to be organized, highly responsive and committed to quality

How Your Work Impacts the Organization Our goal within Digital Platforms is to build a user experience that delights our customers, anticipates their needs and matches services or solutions to support effective decision making. You will be responsible for delivering new products and services that will greatly improve the digital experience for our Workplace Investing customers.

COVID Work Policy

Safety is our top priority. Once we can be together in person with fewer safety measures, this role will follow our dynamic working approach. You’ll be spending some of your time onsite depending on the nature and needs of your role.

Dynamic Working – Post Pandemic

Our aim is to combine the best of working offsite with coming together in person. For most teams this means a consistent balance of working from home and office that supports the needs of your role, experience level, and working style.

Your success and growth is important to us, so you’ll want to enjoy the benefits of coming together in person – face to face learning and training, quality time with your manager and teammates, building your career network, making friends, and taking full advantage of cultural and social experiences provided for you.