At Ascensus, technology is more than just a solution. It powers the business that helps millions of people save for what matters—retirement, education, and healthcare. Our technology experts tackle exciting challenges in collaborative teams, but work in an environment where individual and career development is always valued. Technology associates leverage their talents and passion, building new and innovative platforms, creating programs founded in automation in agile frameworks, and driving existing and new markets—all of which supports the rapid growth of a dynamic industry leader.
Position Summary
As a Senior Software Engineer at Ascensus, you will be working in a high-energy team, writing beautiful code by using the best engineering practices in the industry today (e.g. unit testing, source control, continuous integration, automation, design patterns). Passion for all aspects of software development is critical. We are building teams that are empowered to solve business needs by having a rapid development and deployment pipeline with a focus on automation and releasing software.
As a Scrum team contributor, you will be responsible for delivering solutions that adhere to the software architecture strategy, coding standards, and established organizational policies and procedures.
Job Functions, Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Responsible for protecting, securing, and properly handling of all confidential data held by Ascensus to ensure against unauthorized access, improper transmission, and/or unapproved disclosure of information that could result in harm to Ascensus or our clients.
- Our I-Client service philosophy and our Core Values of People Matter, Quality First, and Integrity Always® should be visible in your actions on a day-to-day basis showing your support of our organizational culture.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable and robust applications
- Independently analyze, implement, test, document and maintain new and current software applications in support of achieving the business goals.
- Create estimates and assist with planning throughout the software development life cycle.
- Lead or assist in technical initiatives working with multiple groups
- Establish and enforce development best practices
- Coach and mentor other developers, provide continuous feedback
- Expect and require innovation of her/his team
- Demonstrate passion and convictions and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
- Assist with other tasks and projects as assigned
Supervision
- N/A
Experience, Skills, Knowledge Requirements
- 6-10+ years of experience developing software & systems for medium to large business environments
- Strong experience in one or more programming languages, technologies, and software platforms, such as Java, JavaScript, MS-SQL Server, Sybase
- At least 5+ year’s hands-on experience with one of the programming languages (Java, Angular)
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
- Familiarity with multi-threading
- Strong experience with good design principles (patterns, cohesion/coupling, S.O.L.I.D.)
- Experience with RESTful services and Microservices development
- Working knowledge of microservices
- Experience with writing clean and maintainable code using engineering best practices (unit testing, TDD, continuous integration and deployment, automation, design patterns, refactoring, etc.)
- Strong experience working with other developers, quality engineers (QE), Dev ops engineers, and support engineers to ensure smooth deployment, continual operation, and passion for developing good software.
- Experience participating in design discussions with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience mentoring and coaching more-junior developers
- Experience documenting business solutions in technical documents and diagrams
- Familiarity or experience with Agile engineering practices
- Working experience with Python, C/C++, MySQL, Apache, Ngnix, Redis, jQuery, knockout.js
- Experience in open-source development
- Good understanding of web technologies (HTTP, Apache, HTTP Proxies)
- Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
- Familiarity with continuously deploying software in the Cloud
- Mobile Development experience a plus
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer
For all virtual remote positions, in order to ensure associates can effectively perform their job duties with no distractions, we require an uninterrupted virtual work space and there is also an expectation of family care being in place during business hours. Additionally, there is an internet work speed requirement of 25 MBps or better for individual use. If more than one person is utilizing the same internet connection in the same household or building, then a stronger connection is required. If you are unsure of your internet speed, please check with your service provider. Note: For call center roles specifically, it is a requirement to either hardwire your equipment directly to the internet router or ensure your workstation is in close proximity to the router. Please ensure that you are able to meet these expectations before applying.
At Ascensus, we aspire to make a difference for others. We are a technology-enabled services company that helps people save for retirement, education, and healthcare through our network of institutional, financial advisor, and state partners. Our culture is guided by sound principles, is committed to high standards, operates with transparency, and welcomes diversity—housed within our Core Values: People Matter. Quality First. Integrity Always.®
As a leading independent recordkeeping services partner, retirement plan third-party administrator, and government savings facilitator, we aim to hire associates who find pride in going to work every day knowing that they help more than 12 million people save for what matters.