Engineer II (Payments Integration)

Summary

Mutual of Omaha is modernizing customer and partner connectivity through API-first and event-driven solutions. The Engineer II will develop, test, maintain, and integrate cloud-native payment systems while designing and optimizing payment integrations using AWS, Mulesoft, Spring Boot, and JavaScript. The role also contributes to technical decisions, operational support, and engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to critical business capabilities by developing, testing, maintaining, and integrating systems
• Active participation in ideation and brainstorming sessions to devise creative and disruptive digital solutions; build applications, APIs, and services that drive toward our target architecture
• Ability to fill various roles (e.g. individual contributor, leader, teacher, mentor)
• Gain understanding of supported business unit(s) and awareness of related objectives and challenges

Skills

• Applicants for this position must not now, nor at any point in the future, require sponsorship for employment
• Professionally solve business problems for full-stack applications, utilizing the following technologies:
• AWS
• Advanced experience in Javascript/Typescript
• Design and develop event-driven solutions using AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, and API Gateway
• Experience designing and implementing REST APIs, including API versioning, security, and integration patterns
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CDK
• Ability to troubleshoot production issues using logs, metrics, and distributed tracing
• Participate in operational support and continuous improvement of production systems
• Collaborative approach and a willingness to work with team members
• Driven to learn new technologies through research and investigation
• You promote a culture of diversity and inclusion, value different ideas and opinions and listen courageously and remain curious in all that you do
• You are able to work remotely and have access to high-speed internet and located in the United States or Puerto Rico
• Experience working in payment processing, financial services, or highly regulated environments
• Experience designing reliable, fault-tolerant integrations with external vendors and APIs
• Understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns, idempotency, and distributed system design
• This role is classified as remote; however, periodic in-person attendance will be required at times for activities such as quarterly or project planning, training, or other business-critical meetings

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Applicants for this position must not now, nor at any point in the future, require sponsorship for employment
• Professionally solve business problems for full-stack applications, utilizing the following technologies:
• AWS
• Advanced experience in Javascript/Typescript
• Design and develop event-driven solutions using AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, and API Gateway
• Experience designing and implementing REST APIs, including API versioning, security, and integration patterns
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using AWS CDK
• Ability to troubleshoot production issues using logs, metrics, and distributed tracing
• Participate in operational support and continuous improvement of production systems
• Collaborative approach and a willingness to work with team members
• Driven to learn new technologies through research and investigation
• You promote a culture of diversity and inclusion, value different ideas and opinions and listen courageously and remain curious in all that you do
• You are able to work remotely and have access to high-speed internet and located in the United States or Puerto Rico

Nice to Haves

• Experience working in payment processing, financial services, or highly regulated environments
• Experience designing reliable, fault-tolerant integrations with external vendors and APIs
• Understanding of asynchronous messaging patterns, idempotency, and distributed system design
• This role is classified as remote; however, periodic in-person attendance will be required at times for activities such as quarterly or project planning, training, or other business-critical meetings

Benefits

• Annual bonus opportunity
• 401(k) plan with a 2% company contribution and 6% company match
• Work-life balance with vacation, personal time and paid holidays
• Remote work