IT Software Engineer

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.

Who we are:
We’re Nelnet Velocity and we do things differently. We’re a tech-first team that is transforming financial services technology. Things move fast here so we’re agile and innovative in how we work, focusing on inspecting and adapting for improvement in a rapidly changing environment. We’re helping our clients compete in the digital marketplace by using the latest technology, methodologies, and processes to deliver the next generation platform in the financial services industry. We’re only as good as our people – that’s where you come in.

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

As an IT Full-Stack Developer, a typical day might include:

• Architecting solutions and execution through hands-on development, quality assurance, and prototyping

• Delivering code in an Agile framework using test-driven development methodologies.

• Participating in development life cycle activities like design, coding, testing, code review, production, release and production support.

• Partnering closely with product to craft great product experiences.

• Participating and promoting architectural initiatives, balancing long-term velocity with short-term customer needs

 
We Have:

• A startup culture with enterprise resources – the open, collaborative, fast-paced culture of a startup with the trust, benefits, resources, and safety of an established enterprise!

• Cutting edge technology – Tech is on the forefront of conversations and is woven into everything you do!

• Opportunity to create impact -- You’re a part of building something that is brand new and has the potential to change the financial services space!

• A culture of innovation -- you’ll be surrounded by people who think outside the box and are constantly looking for ways to improve, just like you do!

• An agile team with dedicated people – we care about you and work hard for each other!

You Have:

• Minimum of 3 years total experience delivering enterprise class web applications with at least 1 year working with ES6/7 JavaScript, TypeScript and/or similar technologies

• 1-3 years of experience with Node.JS and Docker

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

• Previous experience with Microservices, preferably with frameworks such as Seneca.js or Moleculer

• Experience with AWS toolset and AWS Lambda or containerization tool experience preferred.

Competencies – Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:

• Innovator and experimenter. Strong desire to learn, push the envelope, and try new things

• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills

• Passion for quality and writing clean, solid, readable code that scales and performs well.

• 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. HTTP, cookies, asset loading, caching, REST)

• Experience using CI/CD tools and systems such as Jenkins, Hudson, GitLab, GitHub, etc.

• Experience with HTML5, CSS3, SASS/LESS, Bootstrap, and cross-browser and device development

• Solid understanding of object-oriented design and programming concepts, core JavaScript concepts like scope/closures, the event loop and asynchronous callbacks, promises.

• Strong database