Staff Engineer, Systems Engineer

Staff Engineer

The Insurance Application Fulfillment Product Group is seeking a staff engineer to help lead the modernization of the insurance application issue process across life, health, and annuity business lines. This role partners closely with product and underwriting leadership to shape technology strategy, drive architectural decisions, and deliver solutions that are scalable, governed, and resilient in a highly regulated environment. This role combines deep technical contribution with systems-level ownership.

We are looking for an engineer who is energized by complex problem spaces, eager to engage deeply with the business and technical context, and motivated to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions, influence solution approaches, integrate with legacy and vendor systems, maximize reuse of existing platforms, and support thoughtful build vs. buy decisions—while remaining hands-on and engaged in delivery.

• Designing solutions
• Developing software
• Learning and applying new techniques
• Collaborating within the team
• Collaborating across teams
• Collaborating across the organization
• Setting product/platform technology strategy
• Defining engineering standards and patterns
• Dev Ops
• Selecting & managing technology vendors
• Coaching engineers
• Recruiting and building talent

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of experience in engineering environments, turning abstract business concepts into scalable, well-architected software solutions.
• Experience architecting software solutions that meet performance slos, availability, reliability, and security requirements.
• Understanding of data and system integration patterns, including how data-driven capabilities are incorporated into application workflows.
• Proficiency in managing large-scale technical initiatives and navigating complex engineering efforts.
• Ability to clearly articulate complex technical and systems concepts to engineers, product partners, and business stakeholders.
• Strong conceptual, critical thinking, technical, and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and sound engineering judgment.
• Ability to engage confidently with senior leaders to present architectural perspectives and technical documentation.

Preferred:

• Master's degree in a related field
• Financial services industry experience
• Coach / mentor other team members as appropriate
• Familiarity with modern technology stacks and cloud platforms.
• Proficiency in java, with familiarity in data-oriented languages such as python or r.
• Understanding of model-driven decision system used in underwriting or decision-support workflows is a plus.
• Financial services industry experience, with a focus on underwriting systems and workflows across insurance products.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners across product, underwriting, architecture, and engineering teams.
• Experience with vendor evaluation, platform selection, or working with external technology providers.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and improving technical consistency, quality, and delivery outcomes across teams.

Pay transparencythrivent'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 $ - $ 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…