Northwestern Mutual
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Associate Front End Software Engineer - JavaScript / UI

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At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
At Northwestern Mutual, we embrace cutting-edge technologies to enable our business to grow at an unprecedented rate and are looking for great people to help drive this transformation. We seek talented Javascript engineers with a desire to build Northwestern Mutual's future through modern software applications.
As an Associate Software Engineer, you will be collaborating with a team to deliver features requested by the field. This position will be critical in helping us build our web application's user interface using React and modern design principles.
This role will have three components:

  • Help us implement front end design patterns
  • Help us enhance and grow our existing React component library
  • Help us support, troubleshoot, and manage our application front end design and integrations


Role & Responsibilities:

  • Be a team player: contribute to our culture, invent new ways to address industry needs, criticize constructively, and help create a world-changing company.
  • Provide solutions for UX and UI problems during planning and development
  • Write automated tests via TDD to foster effective, reusable, and flexible code
  • Build logic in isolated, independent, reusable components
  • Ability to tackle user interface problems, independently and as part of a team
  • Debug and troubleshoot integration with new API's
  • You know and care about CSS and modern frontend development and design tools and technique


Technologies We Use & Nice-to-Haves:

  • JavaScript/Typescript/NodeJS
  • React (JSX, Enzyme and Jest)
  • CSS/SASS
  • API/GraphQL
  • AWS


Required Skills & Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree, bootcamp, or equivalent web development/programming experience.
  • Passionate about creating high-quality, flexible code
  • Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling, as well as familiarity with React and Node.js
  • Familiarity with REST API principles and best practices
  • Proficient with Git
  • Proficiency with CSS and CSS preprocessors
  • Strong understanding of asynchrony and using Promises (or async/await)
  • Familiarity with data structures and the ability to pick and use the right one for the task.
  • Experience with using APIs including data CRUD operations, JSON data structures, authentication, and documentation
  • Ability to meet deadlines and communicate effectively with team members both on-site and off-site.
  • Ability to work independently and within a team of diverse skills. Ability to receive and provide constructive feedback.


Benefits:

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


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What are Northwestern Mutual Perks + Benefits

Northwestern Mutual Benefits Overview

Whether providing education assistance, competitive health benefits or time off for community service, Northwestern Mutual is committed to supporting employees so they can live their best lives. 

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Employee resource groups
Hybrid work model
Flexible work schedule
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Northwestern Mutual offers a pension plan for employees.
Performance bonus
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Fertility benefits
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Floating holidays
Bereavement leave benefits
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Mother's room
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Online course subscriptions available

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