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# IT Software Engineer

- **Company:** Nelnet
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Starter
- **Salary:** $100,000.0 - $120,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), HTML5, Bootstrap (Software), Browser Compatibility, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), ECMAScript, Ember.Js, Github, Node.Js, Object-Oriented Software Development, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Web Applications, Web Application Frameworks, ReactJS, Caching, AWS Lambda, Gitlab, Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets (SASS), Containerization, Webpack, AngularJS, Web Technologies, Restful APIs, Docker, Jenkins, Microservices
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://nelnet.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/MyNelnet/job/Remote/IT-Software-Engineer_R22719-1

## About the Role

* Minimum of 3 years total experience delivering enterprise class web applications with at least 1 year working with ES6/7 JavaScript, TypeScript and/or similar technologies
 * 1-3 years of experience with Node.JS and Docker
 * 3 years current experience building single page applications with popular JS frameworks and libraries (React, Angular, Ember, Babel, Webpack, Underscore, etc.)
 * Previous experience with Microservices, preferably with frameworks such as Seneca.js or Moleculer
 * Experience with AWS toolset and AWS Lambda or containerization tool experience preferred.

Competencies - Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:

 * Innovator and experimenter. Strong desire to learn, push the envelope, and try new things
 * Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
 * Passion for quality and writing clean, solid, readable code that scales and performs well.
 * Solid fundamental understanding of testing (including stubbing, functional, unit, and e2e)
 * Practical experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
 * Solid understanding of the full web technology stack (e.g. HTTP, cookies, asset loading, caching, REST)
 * Experience using CI/CD tools and systems such as Jenkins, Hudson, GitLab, GitHub, etc.
 * Experience with HTML5, CSS3, SASS/LESS, Bootstrap, and cross-browser and device development
 * Solid understanding of object-oriented design and programming concepts, core JavaScript concepts like scope/closures, the event loop and asynchronous callbacks, promises.
 * Strong database knowledge (table design, complex query creation, best practices)



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