Nelnet is a Lincoln, Nebraska-based financial services company providing a range of student lending options to parents and students in K-12 schools and colleges
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Location
United States
Posted
7 days ago
Salary
$63K - $127K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Nelnet
• Coaches, motivates, and professionally develops direct reports and others. • Sets clear team objectives and measurements aligned with organizational goals. • Responsible for performance evaluations and recommending compensation changes. • Builds and strengthens teamwork and cooperation within and across teams. • Implements lean solutions to improve team efficiency while maintaining effectiveness. • Removes organizational impediments including hidden challenges. • Assesses and improves team health. • Creates a culture that makes room for failure and learning. • Leads the hiring process for team members. • Contributes to department staffing plans and budget processes. • Coordinate with Nelnet Cyber Security Group (CSG) to ensure that NBS is compliant with all Nelnet security policies. • Creates engineering standards in coding practices across teams. • Mentors Software Engineers in best practices. • Creates an environment of best practices in engineering through personal example, developing and engineering products, creating deployments, and leading system architecture design concepts across teams.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in IT Team area with a demonstrated ability of successful team leadership.
- 2+ years of experience in management role.
- Proficiency in Python & Java required.
- Experience with AWS deployments required.
- Experience with auto scaling design.
- Experience deploying AI models in Bedrock framework.
- Experience using AI coding assistants (Claude, Cursor, etc...).
- Experience in developing MCP and API custom connectors.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- HSA and FSA
- generous earned time off
- 401K/student loan repayment
- life insurance & AD&D insurance
- employee assistance program
- employee stock purchase program
- tuition reimbursement
- performance-based incentive pay
- short- and long-term disability
- robust wellness program
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