Associate, Engineering - Native Mobile

When you join Sallie Mae, you become a champion for all students.

We're on a mission to power confidence as students begin their unique journey. To help them plan their higher education, successfully finish, and prepare for life after school. To help them Start smart. Learn big.

Students need guidance navigating this important time in their life. They need someone who acknowledges that their education path is unique. They need a partner willing to evolve and not only meet but surpass their expectations. We're changing. Because students need a better way.

We're looking for people who are excited to drive this transformation. To break barriers and think of new ways to adapt, help, and create better experiences for students-and for each other.

This is where diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and perspectives matter. It's where you're empowered to bring your authentic self to work.

Feeling your best allows you to do your best. Our benefits take care of the whole you-from physical and mental to financial and professional. You'll get opportunities to further your education and career, support for you and your family (including your pets!), paid time off to volunteer for the things that matter to you, and more.

We're obsessed with impact and making a real difference. For us, that means putting relationships first, asking "why not?" when tackling challenges, and continuously learning new skills.

Come do more than join something, change something. For students, for future generations, for the future of education.

What You'll Contribute

As part of this team you will work with other top developers to create native mobile solutions that are modern, intuitive, and scale in high-volume transactional environments. In this role you will provide technical guidance and build modern DevOps solutions that provide test and deployment automation to help the team transition into a full CI/CD pipeline.

What You'll Do

Description

% of Time Spent

• Work in iterative sprints to design, develop and test solutions. Build automation and tests to streamline the code to cash pipeline. Refactoring new and legacy code as we work towards eliminating technical debt (60%)
• Collaborate with agile teams to identify approach, dependencies, tasks, and seek opportunities for automation; lead discussions to seek opportunities for automation; mentor other team members, help recruit and onboard other top-talented developers. (20%)
• Continually improve your craft as a software engineer by learning and leveraging the latest design patterns, principles and technology. Attend training, participate in Communities of Practice (CoPs), and read related materials to stay ahead of the technology curve. (20%)

The above information is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this job; it is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees in this role.

What You Need to Succeed

Being focused on our customer helps us to deliver a lasting impression and instill trust. Through collaboration and teamwork, we are able to communicate effectively across departments leading to better decision quality. We hold ourselves to the highest standards ensuring accountability in all we do to deliver on our mission and shared values. Adopt a mindset of product ownership as a member of a product team

What You Have

Minimum education, skills and experience required.

• 3+ years of experience as a full-time software developer or engineer
• 2+ years of experience with iOS and/or Android native development
• 2+ years of experience in React Native
• 1+ years of experience developing cloud solutions either in AWS or Azure or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with automating application deployment, continuous delivery, and continuous integration (ADO, VSTS, Jenkins)
• Infrastructure Automation (eg, Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
• Experience with Source Control (Git preferred)
• Experience with virtualization and containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Vagrant)
• Linux and/or shell expertise
• Experience in a production services operating environment
• Ability to write code/script using JavaScript, Python, Java, C# or similar
• Experience with Rest API, Micro services, etc
• Experience with any DB2, MYSql DB & any of the NoSQL technologies such as Cassandra, Couch DB or Mongo
• Experience with test driven development (TDD)
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Experience working in a team-oriented fast paced, distributed and collaborative environment
• Excellent troubleshooting skills, self-motivated, results-driven and well organized
• A self-motivated leader who is results driven, and media or technology enthusiast
• Must value operating in a collaborative and cooperative environment
• College Degree or equivalent work experience

Accountability - Hold self and others accountable to meet commitments.

Collaboration - Build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.

Communication - Develop and deliver multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

Customer focus - Build strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions.

Decision quality - Make good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.

Instill trust - Gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.

Preferred education, skills, and experience.

• Experience in Linux Administration including Bash/shell scripting
• Experience administering services on AWS (RDS, VPC, RedShift, EMR, CloudWatch, Cloud Formation)
• Cloud application deployment and monitoring
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services
• Experience with Event Driven and event sourced architectures leveraging microservices
• Experience designing/developing robust API's for mission critical, high volume systems. (RESTful, GraphQL)
• Experience working in financial services industry, compliance regulated environment
• Proven ability to learn new technologies quickly

The Americans with Disabilities Act

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) prohibits discrimination by employers, in compensation and employment opportunities, against qualified individuals with disabilities who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the "essential functions" of a job. A function may be essential for any of several reasons, including: the job exists to perform that function, the employee holding the job was hired for his/her expertise in performing the function, or only a limited number of employees are available to perform that function.

Feeling your best helps you do your best:

Our benefits take care of the whole you-so you can build your work around your life (not the other way around!).

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• Generous PTO, Floating Holidays and 12 Federal Holidays observed
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement 401k with employer match
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance and more
• Employer paid short-term/long-term disability and basic life insurance
• Flexible hybrid working arrangements.
• Paid parental leave and adoption reimbursement programs
• Free access to on-site staffed fitness centers (in Delaware) and gym subsidy (for locations outside Delaware)
• Confidential counseling support (EAP), Health Advocacy services and Wellness program with financial incentives
• Tuition Reimbursement and Family Scholarship Programs
• Career development and training opportunities

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