Are you looking to join an exceptional team working on the next generation of sales and servicing application? Are you driven by continuous improvement while utilizing the latest technologies? We are seeking a proven developer who relishes challenges, possesses internal drive, and loves working on large scale, technical complex business solutions. The successful candidate will serve as a Technical Lead focused on the Artemis Application build and legacy application retirement within the Servicing BSA.

Technical Skills:

• Ability to demonstrate a solid understanding of software development principles and coding best practices

• Knowledgeable in front-end web development technologies and techniques

• UX and CSS experience and understanding of user journeys

• Determine, define, and facilitate the creation of processes required to keep application services available with 99.9% uptime

• Full stack development experience

• Front End -   Java J2EE, Angular 8+, HTML, JavaScript

• Back End - Java, Spring Boot, JPA (Java Persistence API), Hibernate, Web Services

• DevOps & Cloud -   Apigee, AWS (Rancher / Kubernetes), GIT, Maven, Concourse, CI/CD Pipeline

Non-Technical Skills:

• Passion and ability to coach and mentor junior developers

• Ability to coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to help drive the best technical direction and decision making

• Proactively share information so that the right people are informed and aligned

• Able to apply experience to recommend the best technical direction for new projects and efforts

• Ability and desire to uplift others and help the team grow

• Problem solver and out of the box thinker

• Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment

• Strong communication, people interaction, and self-leadership skills

• Thought leadership with strong ability to influence and lead continuous improvement

• Experience developing software via Agile software development methodologies

• Proven ability to document and share knowledge effectively (knowledge management)

• Technology depth and experience with designing, building, and supporting APIs and Event Streams

What we offer

• Opportunity to work with a highly motivated and engaged team and be part of major technical and business transformational efforts.

• An opportunity to innovate.  We welcome new and creative ideas from everyone on the team

• A Flexible working environment.  We are currently working in a hybrid WFO/WFH environment, that provides a great degree of flexibility to the team and allows you to select a schedule that best meets your needs.

• Competitive pay and exceptional employee benefits

This is an individual contributor tech lead developer role within the Servicing BSA that will play a key leadership and delivery role in planning, developing, and deploying Digital Products for Nationwide's Sales and Servicing partners.  The team is responsible for defining and building the solutions that will retire our legacy applications and build out the next generation of digital sales and serving solutions.

Job Description Summary

If you’re all about delivering technology solutions to support a company providing outstanding care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology may be the place for you! Our industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative and inclusive culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!

As a Software Engineer, you will focus on mentoring and leading others to deliver high quality, cost-effective technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom-built applications.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Mentors and trains other team members on design techniques, tools and coding standards. 

• Provides strategic advice on using technology to achieve goals. 

• Drives cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams. 

• Analyzes, solutions, develops, tests, debugs, documents and deploys software according to standards and optimal practices. 

• Champions the use of DevSecOps practices, tooling and techniques. 

• Ensures continuous learning and improvement through ongoing training, practice and innovation. 

• Manages individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables. 

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to a Technology Manager/Director. 

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, mathematics or related field is strongly preferred. 

Experience: Six years of experience in programming and systems analysis. Three years of experience in project management is preferred. 

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Hands-on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction. Proficiency in one programming language such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript. Knowledge of software development lifecycle. Proven ability to tackle sophisticated business and development problems. Ability to thrive in a team environment. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus. 

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence. 

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and Human Resources Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions: 

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

Working Conditions: Normal office environment. Associates may have on-call responsibility after normal working hours and/or on weekends. 

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.