At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
What are we building and how do we work?
We're building a new Payments Platform for Northwestern Mutual called the Enterprise Payments Network (EPN) using the latest technologies on AWS. We're a year into our journey and there's a lot of new capabilities we need you to help us build. Tech stack and dev tools we are using are Node.js, Typescript, Kafka, DynamoDB, Lambda, Postman, Kevlar, Cucumber...
The EPN program has several agile-scrum teams that operate together as a part of a program organized using the Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe). On your scrum team there will be engineers holding roles as scrum master, devops, QA, and leads. There will also be a business analyst/product owner. We have a testing group outside the teams as well that help us coordinate and test the larger platform and integrating teams. There are also designers, architects, and program managers working outside the team to help build the runway of work coming to your team.
In-Person/Remote?
This position is a Milwaukee corporate office position. We are currently working entirely remotely due to COVID. Until it's determined to be safe this position will remain as a remote position, with office time voluntary. As we've started thinking about what return to campus would be like we're going to go to a Tue/Wed/Thr in the office and Mon/Fri - locate for your day schedule.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Develops a robust understanding of the EPN, the APIs your team builds and supports, and the up/downstream systems interacting with the platform.
• Builds, improves, and supports those digital products with the guidance of team, under a mentor.
• Work within a scrum team on new feature development or bug resolution.
• Develop your own unit tests
• Participates in code evaluations

Growth Opportunities

• Develop your technical capabilities with access to CodeSchool, Pluralsight, Linux Academy
• Participate in onsite/remote enabled learning on relevant technical and soft skills
• Opportunity to pair with devs, arch, and product team members on your team and outside to help with QA work, dev work, future of the platform...
• Rotate in/out of ~4 scrum teams to learn other areas of the platform

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Classroom programming experience
• Personal development projects and/or light professional experience
• Demonstrate a continuous learning mentality.
• Able to dissect problems and recommend solutions
• Thrive in a team environment
• Confidence in your learned technical skills & ability to pickup new skills

Skills-Proficiency Level:
Automation Processes - Basic
Cloud Technologies - Basic
Code Analysis - Basic
Continuous Integrations - Basic
Continuous Learning - Intermediate
Deployment Strategies - Basic
Engineering Practices - Basic
Programming Languages - Intermediate
Software Development - Intermediate
Technical Design Documentation - Basic
Technical Solution Development - Basic
Testing Practices - Basic
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