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. 

Role

To support our growing team, we are looking for an engineer to work with our Continuous Delivery team. You’re the right fit if you’re the best and there’s not a problem you can’t solve and ultimately love to automate. We need an experienced engineer who has a strong background around SCM, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployments. We’re looking for self-motivated & self-driven engineers who are passionate about what they do and love technology.

You will be working on the Devops/CICD team building automation for delivery pipelines for applications in a largely containerized and public cloud environment. These systems support the future development of the client and planner experiences for Northwestern Mutual. The team is located in Milwaukee and New York but has the opportunity to travel across campuses. 

Competencies

• Strong knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment practices
• Fast learner and self-starter. The people you will work with are incredibly kind and extremely willing to share knowledge and a helping hand, but you have to be willing to take ownership of the outlined goals and make things happen
• Ability to take initiative and work with minimal supervision, yet actively interact with other team members
• Work collaboratively with application developers on CICD capabilities. The CICD team not only strives to build out the best capabilities that they can but also to help teams leverage that tooling
• Bring new ideas and new ways of solving problems to the team

Skills

• Proficient in at least one programming language (Java, Javascript, Python, GO)
• AWS experience. AWS certificates preferred but not required.
• Containerization with Docker or other container technology
• Source Control Management – GIT
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal
• Use of a CI tool (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Travis, Circle)
• Knowledge of Infrastructure Automation (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef) 

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