Assoc Engineer

Thrivent is seeking an Associate Engineer to join its Money Movement team within the Enterprise Payments & Money Movement portfolio. The role supports the design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of modern applications while building expertise in software engineering, DevOps, and AI-assisted development practices.

What you'll do:

• Apply foundational technical knowledge while working with other engineers to deliver high-quality solutions and business outcomes
• Participate in software design, development, testing, and implementation within the team
• Collaboratively problem solve, ask questions, and seek guidance when needed while building the ability to work more independently over time
• Demonstrate curiosity and persistence when working through unfamiliar or challenging technical problems
• Develop, test, and maintain software alongside other engineers using modern engineering practices
• Build experience with technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Kafka, event-driven architectures, databases, and CI/CD
• Contribute to code reviews and learn to apply team engineering standards and patterns
• Take ownership of assigned work and demonstrate tenacity in driving problems through to resolution
• Demonstrate a strong growth mindset and actively seek opportunities to learn new technologies, engineering practices, and approaches
• Actively explore and apply AI-assisted development tools to support learning, problem solving, software development, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting
• Develop the ability to effectively prompt, evaluate, and validate AI-generated solutions rather than relying on AI output without understanding it
• Experiment with emerging AI capabilities and share useful techniques, successes, and learnings with the team

What they're looking for:

• • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience
• • 0 to 2 years of application engineering experience
• • Foundational understanding of at least one programming language and software development concepts
• • Demonstrated curiosity, initiative, and willingness to continuously learn and develop new technical skills
• • Ability to collaboratively problem solve and demonstrate persistence when working through unfamiliar challenges
• • Willingness to seek, receive, and apply feedback as part of continued growth
• • Knowledge of version control practices and software development lifecycle concepts
• • Foundational understanding of software design, databases, and application development
• • Exposure to Java and Spring Boot through professional experience, internships, coursework, or personal projects
• • Exposure to REST APIs, Kafka, event-driven architectures, cloud technologies, or CI/CD practices
• • Experience experimenting with AI and AI-assisted development tools through coursework, personal projects, internships, or professional experience
• • Demonstrated curiosity about AI and an interest in applying it throughout the software development lifecycle

Benefits:

• Various bonuses, including annual or long-term incentives
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Health savings account
• Flexible spending account
• 401k
• Pension
• Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Disability insurance