Senior Software Engineer Jobs

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
To support our growing team, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer. You're the right fit if you try your best and there's not a problem you can't solve! We need an experienced engineer who is passionate about writing performance server-side code and that won’t shy away from the client-side.
Our team is building out tools to help our clients prosper financially. We provide features like account aggregation, net worth calculations, budgeting, and spending insights. Our APIs power some of the core journeys for our client mobile app and website, as well as our best in class planning experience.
You will be working with a full stack agile team of back-end and front-end developers, building applications that are deployed to the cloud. The work will involve every aspect of the SDLC, including building, testing, deploying, and monitoring the apps in our AWS and Kubernetes environment.
Bring Your Best! What this role needs:

• Work collaboratively on creative solutions with engineers, product managers, and designers.
• Bring new ideas and new ways of solving problems our team.
• Ability to take initiative and work with minimal direction, yet actively interact with other team members in person or online (chat, videoconference, email).
• Fast learner and self-starter. The people you will work with are exceptionally kind and extremely willing to share knowledge and a helping hand, but you have to be willing to take ownership of the outlined goals.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Demonstrates technical leadership to team.
• Applies working relationships across teams within their division.
• Establishes, aggregates, and shares team standards and best practices within department.
• Assesses and provides solutions to system-wide architectural problems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Manages own time to meet objectives
• Experience developing solutions using agile methods
• 3-5+ years of experience working with modern engineering tools, languages and practices
• Advanced abilities in one or more technical platforms
• Mentor for the team and department
• 4-5 years professional experience required
• Capable of communicating between product, engineering, and the business
• Ability to perform peer reviews on code and design
• Proven critical thinking, ownership approach and continuous learning
• Solid understanding of design patterns and architecture

Nice-to-have

• Worked with any account aggregation providers like Plaid, MX, or Yodlee
• AWS technologies like S3, SQS, and OpenSearch
• Understanding of architectural concepts like Domain-Driven Design and Event Based systems
• TDD and testing frameworks such as Jest and MochaJS

Skills-Proficiency Level

• Familiarity with Docker and containerization
• React and Redux - Intermediate
• Familiarity with cloud providers like AWS and Azure is a plus
• SQL - Intermediate
• JavaScript ES6 - Advanced
• Java - Basic/Intermediate
• Familiarity with Authorization and Authentication is a plus
• Node and Express - Advanced
• Sass / Styled-Components - Intermediate
• Good understanding of GIT and source code management

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

Compensation Range
Pay Range - Start:
$112,560.00
Pay Range - End
$160,800.00
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.
If you work or would be working in California, Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate location, please click here for information pertaining to compensation and benefits.
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