Back End Engineer, Production Support Engineering

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About LearnVest:

LearnVest is redefining the American approach to personal finance. Our planners leverage financial technology to create simple, affordable, realistic plans for anyone who wants to feel confident about their money and optimistic about the future.
Since launching in 2010, LearnVest has been one of the premier financial technology companies in the country, helping thousands of people make progress on their financial goals. LearnVest was acquired by Northwestern Mutual in 2015 and is now scaling its technology and personal finance approach to help millions of people across both the LearnVest and Northwestern Mutual brands.

Job Description:

To support our core product and growing team, we are seeking a Java Engineer to join the Production Support Engineering team: the kind of engineer that not only wants to solve the big problem but goes the extra mile to find the best possible solution. We need someone that loves to write elegant code but more than that loves to continually tinker and improve.

Leveraging a thorough knowledge of back-end technologies and best practices, the candidate we seek sees things through the eyes of an architect, someone who keeps the big picture in mind no matter the task. This role demands that you always code with performance, maintainability, scalability, and concurrency in mind. You will work in a collaborative environment to troubleshoot/debug issues, implement solutions, and deploy them to production.

Our current back-end tech stack includes: Java/Spring, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, PHP, AWS, Linux, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities: 

  • Manage the existing application stack supporting our public facing APIs and internal tools
  • Debug the hardest of problems and design robust solutions to prevent them from happening again
  • Propose and implement solutions to proactively reduce/prevent downtime, system outages, security vulnerabilities, and bottlenecks
  • Build new tools to help monitor and secure everywhere possible
  • Contribute to documentation and automated testing

Qualifications: 

  • 2+ years of professional Java development experience.
  • 1+ years of professional datastore experience, preferably MySQL and Redis.About LearnVest
  • Working knowledge of the Spring Framework.
  • Knowledge of Web Application Architecture/Technical Design (idiomatic RESTful web service design, OOP class design, performance/bottleneck analysis, etc).
  • Practical experience working within a scalable, cloud based infrastructure
  • Knowledge and understanding of AWS, Docker containerization etc.

Benefits: 

  • Fully stocked snacks, beer fridge, cold brew kegs, frequent catered lunches, company dodgeball team, and whiskey hours.
  • Tuition reimbursement, commuter plans, and paid time off.
  • Highly competitive compensation that include base salary plus bonus.
  • Medical/Dental/Vision plans, Matching 401(k), pension program.
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41 East 11th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10003

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