Specialist, Software Engineer (Annuity Modernization - Workflow)

If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

This role will work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio office 2 days per week on Wednesdays & Thursdays.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Specialist, Software Engineer to execute on the technical strategy and deliver within our Annuity Modernization team within Nationwide Financial, focusing on Workflow. This role drives architectural decisions forward and ensures scalable, secure, and innovative solutions that transform how we ingest, process, and route documents across multiple channels - enabling seamless, automated, and intelligent workflows that support both New Business and Post-Issue transactions.

You’ll work in a cross functional product-centric agile team, closely partnering with a Product Owner and fellow engineers to deliver high-impact capabilities. This is a great opportunity to contribute to a modern, event-driven architecture while building scalable, cloud-native solutions that integrate with enterprise systems.

What You’ll Do

Guide, optimize, and implement solutions for:

Multi-Channel Ingestion (paper, email, fax, web, eB2B) with OCR/ICR data extraction (Optical Character Recognition and Intelligent Character Resolution)

Metadata Frameworks and APIs for document enrichment

Task Management and intelligent Routing based on business rules

Integrated Workflows with multiple upstream and downstream systems

Modern File Cabinet & Viewer for document access and retrieval

Automation & Orchestration of end-to-end business processes

Event-Driven Architecture for downstream system integration

Reporting & Optimization dashboards and analytics

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and continuous delivery

Influence product strategy by aligning technical solutions with business objectives

Mentor engineers and foster technical excellence across the team

Define technical standards and best practices

Contribute to a culture of innovation, learning, and psychological safety

Tech Stack & Tools

Languages & Frameworks: Java / J2EE, Spring Framework, Angular

DevOps & CI/CD: Jenkins, Git, Docker, Kubernetes

Cloud & APIs: AWS, Apigee, REST/SOAP, API Tokens

Data & Storage: Oracle, SQL, XML

Testing & Quality: JUnit, Postman, Ruby, Tosca

Other: AWD – Automated Workflow Distributor

What We’re Looking For

Proven track record of architecting complex systems in large-scale enterprise environments

Strong ability to influence technical direction and drive modernization initiatives

Experience working in agile product teams and a passion for continuous improvement

Experience mentoring engineers and promoting best practices

Excellent communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences

Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset

Why This Team

You’ll shape the future of Annuity Modernization by driving technical direction and enabling innovation. This is an opportunity to lead impactful initiatives and mentor a high-performing team in a culture that values inclusion, experimentation, and excellence.

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Job Description SummaryIf you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!

As a Software Engineer, you will focus primarily on providing high quality, efficient technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom-built applications. In this capacity, you’ll analyze, code, configure, test, debug, document and maintain applications.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Analyzes, solutions, develops, tests, debugs, documents and deploys software according to standards in an agile environment.

Applies secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.

Uses DevSecOps practices, tooling and techniques.

Drives continuous improvement and learning through ongoing training, practice and innovation.

Manages medium to large project priorities, deadlines and deliverables proactively.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to a Technology Manager/Director.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Completion of undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, or other related degree. Technology experience or non-traditional technology certificates can be substituted for an undergraduate degree.

Experience: Four or more years of analysis and technology experience.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Proficiency in one or more programming language such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript. Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle. Proven ability to tackle complex business and development problems. Ability to thrive in a team environment. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and Human Resources Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions:

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

Working Conditions: Office environment may vary based on team and/or location. Associates may have on-call responsibility after normal working hours and/or on weekends.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.

NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:

We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.

Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.

The national salary range for Specialist, Software Engineer : $95,500.00-$177,500.00

The expected starting salary range for Specialist, Software Engineer : $95,500.00 - $143,500.00

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