Senior Software Engineer

| Greater NYC Area
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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 scaling its technology and personal finance approach to help millions of people across both the LearnVest and Northwestern Mutual brands.

Description:

At LearnVest and Northwestern Mutual, we are rethinking core things about our business and how to create the best consumer experience. We are not afraid of tackling big and challenging problems because we are passionate about personal financial literacy. If you get excited by seemingly impossible problems, we should talk.

We’re a team of engineers, in New York City, working solely to enhance the consumer experience. We are looking for a backend Senior Software Engineer to join our team and help us disrupt the financial planning space for Northwestern Mutual and LearnVest. At the heart of our microservice-based system is a high-visibility account management and monitoring engine is written in Java. As a member of the team, you’ll be finding innovative ways to scale and extend the platform, creating a best-of-breed experience for our clients, interacting with large investment firms to pull and aggregate data in real-time.

Requirements:

  • Excellent object-oriented development skills, preferably with Java, data structures, Spring, RESTful web service, SQL
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in building distributed systems in a multi-language environment
  • Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent degree
  • Experience building high-volume, high-availability systems
  • Knowledge of financial services industry and understanding of investment products
  • Strong expertise in technical architecture & design, analysis, debugging, profiling and developing distributed applications
  • R and ElasticSearch knowledge a plus
  • Experience with Unix environment (shell, scripting)
  • Experience with microservices architecture and cloud computing platforms preferred (Docker, AWS, etc.)
  • Excellent communication skills

Our 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 includes base salary plus bonus
  • Medical/Dental/Vision plans, matching 401(k), pension
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41 East 11th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10003

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