Innovation Full Stack Developer

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
We are looking for a Former Founder with an emphasis on bringing an entrepreneurial approach to an Innovative team! 7 years of experience building AI powered applications.
About Variable
We are an innovation team within a Fortune 100 company. Our mission is to discover, experiment, and build disruptive opportunities that leverage evolving frameworks, markets, and emerging technologies.
We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where innovation thrives. We believe in long-term, strategic investment in innovation and talent, and we provide a stable and resilient platform for our team to grow their careers.
Join us in our mission to shape the future through innovation.
The Role

• Be able to effectively prototype in rapid development cycles and communicate development efforts and key findings to senior leadership.
• Collaborate closely with operation and strategy leads, UI/UX designers, developers, and researchers.
• This role provides the rare opportunity to ignite change and disrupt the financial services industry.
• As a full-stack developer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining innovative web applications and software solutions. It is a unique opportunity to rapidly build with an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Every member of this growing team is empowered to explore emerging, next-generation technologies, trends, and complementary startups that we believe are poised for exponential growth and align with our core ethos.

The Skills

• Create and maintain server-side and client-side code.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, and lead development efforts
• Track record of building out full-stack applications
• Deep database experience, whether in an agile setting using systems such as Supabase and Firestore, or other systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
• Take initiative, work independently, strategize, and execute
• Implement responsive and user-centric interfaces, ensuring an optimal user experience.
• Desire to work autonomously. Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones
• Fluent with newest technologies and modern tech stacks
• Experience integrating with 3rd party API’s, and the ability to effectively communicate to seamlessly integrate into our internal stack
• Build efficient backend frameworks, serving content through custom built REST or GraphQL API’s
• Experience with server-less infrastructures such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Experience with NodeJS, Express, NextJS, and ReactJS frameworks. Further experience is preferred that aligns with our stack of pythonic backend frameworks (Starlette, FastAPI, Flask, Django). Mastery of HTML/CSS/JS, and versioning tools (ie. Git).

Stretch Skills

• Deep knowledge of statistical analysis and model explainability
• Web3 : Exposure to web3 and blockchain technology, having developed decentralized applications from front-end to balancing off and on-chain infrastructure on the back-end.
• Former Founders : Founder experience ideal with an emphasis on bringing an entrepreneurial approach along with the ability and desire to build 0-1.
• Experience in vector databases like Pinecone for tasks such as Document Retrieval or Semantic Search, and is familiar with model hosting solutions.
• Strong fundamental understanding of machine learning models, feed-forward neural networks, and transformer models
• AI Domain Expertise : We are particularly interested in candidates with a strong background in ML/AI. Many of the products we build cover the entire surface of being full stack applications with a heavy underlying emphasis on Machine Learning.
• Experience in developing AI-driven solutions and working with machine learning models, as well as familiarity with AI platforms, tools, and frameworks

Benefits

• Tuition reimbursement, commuter plans, and paid time off
• Highly competitive compensation that include base salary plus bonus
• Medical/Dental/Vision plans, 401(k), pension program

If you don’t tick every box above, we’d still encourage you to apply. We’re building a diverse team whose skills balance and complement one another.
Compensation Range
Pay Range - Start:
$164,850.00
Pay Range - End
$235,500.00
Please note that this is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location. Please click here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.
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We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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We’re excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and commitment to diversity and inclusion.