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.

Your Mission at LearnVest

Our team maintains all existing LearnVest web applications and are building the next-generation platform for LearnVest at Work. You will be a member of a highly skilled and motivated team, within a Scrum/Agile workflow, working with current web technologies and best practices.

As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will work within a team of engineers to help architect, develop and maintain web applications for LearnVest. You will help shape best practices and share knowledge with the rest of the organization, as well as contribute to documentation and operational plans. 

Your general milestones are:

• Within one month, be a sponge and get up to speed quickly, taking on tasks and contributing to the team.
• Within two months, participating in the day-to-day activities of the project, working on critical tasks, interfacing with other teams.
• Within three months, be a fully contributing member of the team, with solid knowledge of the current architecture and direction of the project. Mentoring more junior engineers in a team is expected.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant experience in web application development
• Strong fundamental understanding of both front-end and back-end web development technologies and Responsive Web Design
• Programming experience in Java or another JVM-based language
• Programming experience in JavaScript (ES6+), including experience with Node.js and various libraries/frameworks
• Experience with both NoSQL and relational databases
• Track record on proposing web application architectures & design
• Proven experience with creating/maintaining Restful APIs
• Designing and implementing Microservices
• Designing robust database schemas
• Proficiency in writing useful and maintainable unit testing code

Preferred Qualifications

• Java 8 and/or JVM fine-tuning
• Experience with a popular Java web framework, e.g Spring Boot, Dropwizard, Ratpack, vertx, or netty
• Experience with React
• Experience with Unix-like operating systems
• Experience with AWS or other cloud providers
• Experience working with Docker, Kubernetes or related technology
• Experience with Agile methodologies and familiarity with Jira
• B.S. degree or higher in Computer Science, Math or related field 

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