Specialist, Software Engineer

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.

We are looking for smart, talented software engineers with a desire for working with emerging technologies and reshaping the industry of protection. Join Nationwide to be part of an impactful, innovative team making a difference for our members, our community, and our industry!

 

In our department, Enterprise Partnership (EP), we enable strong value-add digital partnerships by delivering easy, self-service tools and processes on industry leading platforms.

 

Your Impact – What You will be Doing

• You will be working to implement and support an inhouse built application for Nationwide Strategic Partners. 

Required Skills:

Technical Skills:

• Expert level experience with PostgreSQL (3 years)
• Intermediate level experience with Snowflake and Databricks (1 year)
• Intermediate level experience with Angular UI
• Working knowledge of CVE mitigation
• Working knowledge of Alerting and Monitoring tools (New Relic and Splunk)

Leadership Skills

• Lead delivery efforts for various projects
• Provide thought leadership in alignment to enterprise tech and architecture strategies.
• Mentoring junior developers for skills uplift.
• Good Communicator.
• Collaborative mindset.
• Ability to multitask effectively.
• Delegation.
• Proficient in learning and adapting to new technologies.
• Committed to delivering high-quality results on time.

Compensation Grade: F5

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 primarily on providing high quality, efficient technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom-built applications. In this capacity, you’ll analyze, code, configure, test, debug, document and maintain applications.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyzes, solutions, develops, tests, debugs, documents and deploys software according to standards in an agile environment.

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

• Uses DevSecOps practices, tooling and techniques.

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

• Manages medium to large project priorities, deadlines and deliverables proactively.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to a Technology Manager/Director. 

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Completion of undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, or other related degree. Technology experience or non-traditional technology certificates can be substituted for an undergraduate degree. 

Experience: Four or more years of analysis and technology experience.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Proficiency in one or more programming language such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript. Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle. Proven ability to tackle complex business and development problems. Ability to thrive in a team environment. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence. 

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and Human Resources Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions: 

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

Working Conditions: Office environment may vary based on team and/or location. Associates may have on-call responsibility after normal working hours and/or on weekends. 

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