Specialist, Software Engineer (Annuity Correspondence)

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 join Nationwide Financial and our Annuity Technology team with a focus on Correspondence. This role is essential in enabling the generation and delivery of accurate, timely, and compliant communications to our members—supporting both New Business and Post-Issue transactions.

In this role, you’ll engineer the rules, look & feel, and workflow components that produce a variety of member-facing correspondence, including contract packages, confirms, systematic letters, and quarterly/year end statements. You’ll work within an agile, product-centric team and collaborate closely with Product Owners, Technology Analysts, fellow Engineers & Quality Engineers, and Business SMEs to build scalable, modern correspondence solutions.

This is a hands-on engineering opportunity to work across rule engines, workflow platforms, and data integrations—shaping the future of how we communicate with our members.

What You’ll Do

Correspondence Engineering & Delivery

Build and enhance capabilities that consume required data to generate correspondence outputs.

Engineer solutions to deliver correspondence to downstream applications for archiving, printing, or electronic delivery.

Support all correspondence types, including:

Systematic letters (e.g., systematic withdrawals start/stop, death benefit events, recurring transactions)

Confirms (financial transaction confirmations)

Contract packages

Quarterly and year end statements

Other post-issue and regulatory communications

Implement and maintain OpenRules logic that governs correspondence templates across product, state, and regulatory combinations.

Build and optimize Spring Boot services supporting correspondence generation and integrations.

Configure and enhance Quadient workflows—system that manages presentation, layout, and orchestration of correspondence components.

Quality, Collaboration, & Agile Delivery

Partner with Technology Analyst to understand data mapping, business rules, and user stories.

Collaborate with Quality Engineers to ensure accurate rule execution, template rendering, and workflow functionality.

Participate actively in agile ceremonies: sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily standups, and team demos.

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

Tech Stack & Tools

Rules Engine: OpenRules, Manages logic for template selection and configuration based on product, state, transaction type, and other parameters.

Application Framework: Spring Boot, Supports backend correspondence services, integrations, and orchestration.

Correspondence Platform: Quadient, Low/no code workflow-based system controlling layout, presentation, and assembly of final PDF output.

Languages & Frameworks: Java / J2EE, Spring Framework

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

Cloud & APIs: AWS or Cloud equivalent, Apigee, REST/SOAP, API Authorization

Data & Storage: Oracle, SQL, XML, JSON

Testing & Quality: Postman, Ruby, Tosca

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 be part of a forward-thinking team that values collaboration, innovation, and excellence. We foster a culture where you can speak freely, make mistakes, and grow without fear of failure. Your work will directly impact how we communicate with our members—ensuring clarity, compliance, and a seamless experience.

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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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