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Sr Software Engineer

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.

We're strong and growing.  In a company with such a long and storied history, this may be the most exciting and important time to be a part of Northwestern Mutual. We're strong, innovative and growing.
We invest in our people.  We provide opportunities for employees to grow themselves, their career and in turn, our business.
We care.  We make a positive difference in our communities. Nationally, thousands have benefitted from our support of research and programs to fight childhood cancer. Each year, our Foundation, employees and financial representatives donate time, talent and financial support to causes they're passionate about.
At Northwestern Mutual, we believe relationships are built on trust.  That our lives and our work matter. These beliefs launched our company nearly 160 years ago. Today, they're just a few of the reasons why people choose to build careers at Northwestern Mutual.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

  • Demonstrates technical leadership to team.

  • Establishes, aggregates, and shares team standards and best practices within department.

  • Utilizes working relationships across teams within their division.

  • Assesses and provides solutions to system-wide architectural problems.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

  • 4-5 years professional experience required

  • 3-5+ years of experience working with modern engineering tools, languages (NodeJS/Javascript) and practices

  • Demonstrated critical thinking, ownership mindset and continuous learning

  • Experience developing solutions using agile methods

  • Experience working on REST API/Graph API

  • Expert in creating modern full stack application

  • Experience with AWS

  • Mentor for the team and department

  • Advanced skillset in one or more technical platforms

  • Capable of communicating between product, engineering, and the business

  • Manages own time to meet objectives

  • Ability to perform peer reviews on code and design

  • Solid understanding of design patterns and architecture

  • Experience modernize legacy application is preferred

  • Work on business driven API modeling (BDDA) is preferred

Skills-Proficiency Level:


Agile Methodologies - Intermediate
Automation Processes - Intermediate
Cloud Technologies - Intermediate
Code Analysis - Intermediate
Containerization - Intermediate
Continuous Integrations - Intermediate
Continuous Learning - Intermediate
Cross-Functional Partnerships - Basic
Data Solutions - Basic
Deployment Strategies - Intermediate
Engineering Practices - Advanced
Production Monitoring - Basic
Programming Languages - Advanced
Resource Management - Intermediate
Root Cause Analysis - Intermediate
Software Development - Advanced
System Architecture - Intermediate
Systems Architecture Design - Basic
Technical Communication - Basic
Technical Design Documentation - Intermediate
Technical Solution Development - Intermediate
Technology Strategy Development - Basic

Compensation Range:

Pay Range - Start:

$97,930.00

Pay Range - End:

$139,900.00

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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