Staff Engineer, Systems Engineer

Staff Engineer

In this role, you will operate as a Staff Engineer across the Wealth Foundations product team, owning architectural direction for complex, cross-cutting initiatives such as improving Advisor/client experience for Brokerage/Trust and non proprietary products, through API modernization, and cloud transformation. You will function as a force multiplier—raising the engineering bar through standardization, debt reduction, and resilient design patterns. 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.

• 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, taking abstract concepts and ideas and formulating a detailed software engineering plan to deliver
• Experience architecting software solutions with requirements such as performance SLOs, high availability, reliability, security, etc.
• Understand data and system integration patterns and technologies
• Proficiency in managing large scale projects.
• Ability to articulate and transfer complex ideas to a wide audience through both verbal and written communication.
• Strong conceptual, critical thinking, technical and problem-solving skills with good attention to details.
• Must be articulate and have the ability to meet with high level management to present and/or deliver technical documentation.

Preferred:

• Master's degree in a related field
• Financial Services industry experience
• Coach / mentor other team members as appropriate

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 $ - $ 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  or call  and request Human Resources.

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