Consultant, Software Engineer (Full Stack)

If you’re passionate about innovation and love working in an environment where you can constantly improve and adopt new technologies to drive business results, then Nationwide’s Information Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

This will be a hybrid model role that requires you to be in the Columbus, Ohio office 2 days per week.

We are seeking a Tech Lead Consultant, Software Engineer within the Technology Integration Platforms BSA that will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining the Nationwide Partnership Portal (a.k.a developer.nationwide.com).

This position requires a highly skilled and collaborative individual to lead technical efforts, ensure best practices in development, and enhance the developer experience. The ideal candidate will bridge business objectives with technical solutions, contributing to our mission to enable seamless integrations and empower partners with top-tier digital tools.

The ideal candidate will have the following characteristics:

• Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment

• Strong communication, people interaction, and self-leadership skills

• Thought leadership with strong ability to influence and lead continuous improvement

• Experience developing software via Agile software development methodologies

• Proven ability to document and share knowledge effectively (knowledge management)

• Technology depth and experience with designing, building and supporting APIs and Event Streams

• Experience with web performance optimization and security best practices

Technical skills:

• Full stack development experience

• Java / Springboot and Angular development

• Microservices / REST APIs

• Cloud Native applications in AWS or Azure

• Docker container architecture managed by Kubernetes

• CI/CD pipeline enablement

• Experience with Apigee is a plus

• Experience developing and managing content in a CMS such as Contentful is a plus

Compensation Grade: G5

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Job Description Summary

If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!

As a Software Engineer, you will focus on mentoring and leading others to deliver high quality, cost-effective technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom-built applications.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for applying secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.

• Mentors and trains other team members on design techniques, tools and coding standards. 

• Provides strategic advice on using technology to achieve goals. 

• Drives cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams. 

• Analyzes, solutions, develops, tests, debugs, documents and deploys software according to standards and optimal practices. 

• Champions the use of DevSecOps practices, tooling and techniques. 

• Ensures continuous learning and improvement through ongoing training, practice and innovation. 

• Manages individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables. 

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to a Technology Manager/Director.