Software Engineer Jobs in Columbus, OH

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.

The Consultant, Software Engineering supports the design, development, operation, and continuous improvement of reusable enterprise AI platforms and services that help teams deliver trusted AI solutions at scale.

Working within a cross-functional product and platform team, this role translates requirements into secure, reliable, and maintainable capabilities; applies strong software engineering practices; and contributes to shared patterns, reference architectures, controls, and accelerators.

The role contributes to production readiness, service management, observability, supportability, and cost visibility for the capabilities it helps build and operate. The ideal candidate brings foundational expertise in software engineering and cloud technologies, a product and AI-first mindset, learning agility, collaboration skills, and a willingness to own operational outcomes while navigating ambiguity. The candidate should recognize when to use a reusable platform capability instead of a one-off solution.

Technical Stack & Expertise

The ideal candidate will have experience designing, building, and operating enterprise AI platforms and agentic systems utilizing:

• AWS AgentCore and AWS Bedrock for developing, deploying, governing, and scaling enterprise AI applications and AI agents.
• Agent orchestration frameworks such as Strands and implementation of Model Context Protocol (MCP) for secure integration of AI agents with enterprise tools, services, and data sources.
• Model management practices including model selection, evaluation, testing, versioning, deployment, monitoring, guardrails, and lifecycle management.
• Token economics and AI cost optimization, including token consumption analysis, usage forecasting, model utilization monitoring, inference cost management, and financial governance.
• Engineering and operational excellence practices focused on reliability, observability, security, and cost controls, including monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, incident management, performance tuning, resiliency patterns, and service-level objectives (SLOs).
• Cloud-native software engineering using APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, containerization, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and platform automation.
• AI governance, security, responsible AI controls, and risk management practices required to support compliant and secure enterprise adoption of AI technologies.

This position follows a hybrid work schedule, requiring in-office attendance two days per week at our Columbus, Ohio (preferred), Des Moines, Iowa, or Scottsdale, Arizona office locations.

Current internal associates working remotely may also be considered for this position.

Work Authorization: This role does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT Extension program.

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Job Description Summary

If 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’ll focus on mentoring and guiding others to deliver high-quality, cost-effective technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom-built applications.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

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

• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques, tools, and coding standards.

• Provide strategic technical advice on using technology to achieve business and technology goals/strategy.

• Drive cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams.

• Analyze solutions, develop, test, debug, document, and deploy moderately complex software according to standards and best practices.

• Champion the adoption and effective use of DevSecOps practices, tooling, and techniques to improve software quality, security, automation, and delivery efficiency across teams.

• Manages multiple 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: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, mathematics, or related field are strongly preferred.

Experience: Six or more years of programming, software engineering or systems analysis experience. Three years of experience in project management is preferred.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Hands-on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction. Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, and JavaScript. Knowledge of software development lifecycle. Proven ability to tackle sophisticated 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: Hybrid to normal office environment. 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.

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.

Smoke-Free Iowa Statement: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, its affiliates and subsidiaries comply with the Iowa Smokefree Air Act. Smoking is prohibited in all enclosed areas on or around company premises as well as company issued vehicles. The company offers designated smoking areas in which smoking is permitted at each individual location. The Act prohibits retaliation for reporting complaints or violations. For more information on the Iowa Smokefree Air Act, individuals may contact the Smokefree Air Act Helpline at 888-944-2247.

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 Consultant, Software Engineer : $118,000.00-$222,000.00

The expected starting salary range for Consultant, Software Engineer : $118,000.00 - $178,000.00