IT Full-Stack Developer - Velocity

Nelnet is a diversified and innovative company committed to enriching lives through the power of service as a student loan servicer, professional services company, consumer loan originator and servicer, payments processor, renewable energy solutions, and K-12 and higher education expert. For over 40 years, Nelnet has been serving its customers, associates, and communities.

The perks of working at Nelnet go beyond our benefits package. When you join the Nelnet team, you're part of a community invested in the success of each individual. That support comes through in our work, as we are united by our mission of creating opportunities for people where they live, learn, and work.

As a Full-stack Developer at Nelnet, you will build the next generation platform in the lending industry. You will work closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters and other team members to better understand their needs in order to create new products that will impact the life of millions of customers. You will participate in the development of cloud native products using microservices architecture and other leading edge technologies and practices.

- Partner closely with product and design studio to craft great product experiences.

- Design, deliver and evolve solutions and execute through hands-on configuration, development, quality assurance, and prototyping.

- Design, deliver and evolve application and infrastructure code in an Agile software development using test-driven development methodologies.

- Participate in development life cycle activities like design, coding, testing and production release.

- Participate in the design, implementation and evolution of best of breed Development, Build and Deploy Processes and Environments.

- Participate and promote architectural initiatives, balancing long-term velocity with short-term customer needs.

Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. To be considered, candidates must already be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.

Nelnet believes in a hybrid work environment that accommodates both in-office and remote work. This model promotes a positive work-life balance and culture, enabling in-person collaboration when possible while also providing benefits associated with remote work. The standard hybrid work schedule includes a 24/16 hour (in-office/work-from-home) split for associates that reside within 30 miles of an office. This is subject to change, based on manager discretion.

At this time, we are unable to consider candidates that reside in these states:
Alabama, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington.

Starting salary range for this role is $80k - $130k annually, DOE

EXPERIENCE:

- Minimum 5 years total experience delivering enterprise class web applications, with at least 3 most recent years working with ES6/7 JavaScript, Type Script and/or similar technologies.

- 3 years current experience building single page applications with popular JS frameworks and libraries (React, Angular, Ember, Babel, Webpack, Underscore, etc.).

- Previous experience developing microservices
- Previous experience building, maintaining and/or evolving a development processes and environments (SCM, CI/CD, Build Tools, Deployment Tools …etc.)- Previous experience building, maintaining and/or evolving development, test and production environments in a cloud environment  COMPETENCIES – SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITIES:

- Solid fundamental understanding of testing (including stubbing, functional, unit, and e2e)- Practical experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
- Solid understanding of the full web technology stack (e.g.…