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.

The Pre-Client Team is responsible for enhancing and building the next generation of LearnVest’s applications to inform, attract, and nurture potential new customers to its services. Some of the main challenges that you’ll be involved with are: (i) implementing effective UI enhancing UX; (ii) collecting and interpreting analytics data (iii) implementing APIs within microservices architectures; and scaling the application into our cloud infrastructure.

Your general milestones are:

• Month 1 - Ramping Up: be a sponge and get up to speed quickly, taking on tasks and contributing to the team.
• Month 2 - Independent: participating in the day-to-day activities of the project, working on critical tasks, interfacing with other teams.
• Month 3 - Cruising: 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.

• 5+ years of relevant experience in web application development.
• Programming experience in Java or another JVM-based language.
• Experience with a popular Java web framework: Spring Boot, Dropwizard, Ratpack, vertx, or netty.
• Programming experience in JavaScript (ES6).
• Track record on proposing web application architectures & design.
• Proven experience with creating/maintaining Restful APIs.
• Designing and implementing Microservices.
• Exposure to both NoSQL / relational databases.
• Familiarity with git.
• Proficiency in writing useful / maintainable unit testing code.
• Experience with Unix-like operating systems.
• B.S. degree or higher in Computer Science, Math or related fields are a plus.

Preferred qualifications

• Java 8 and/or JVM fine-tuning.
• Experience with AngularJS & Node.JS
• Exposure to websockets.
• Web Development with HTML, CSS, & SASS.
• Experience working with Docker, Kubernetes or related technology.
• Familiarity with AWS is highly appreciated, especially EC2 and S3.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and familiarity with Jira.

• 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.