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Description:

At Northwestern Mutual electronic search management is an essentialcapabilityfor the organization and ourdigital platformstrategy.Our team isintegraltothecustomer,advisor and home office user experiences by:

• Providing real-time, highly available, sophisticated and exceptional search capabilities for our Field and Home Office users, handling over 4 million requests per month!
• providing a crucial privacy workflow for the Field allowing them to request and obtain permission to access client records.
• supporting existing applications and services related to the visibility, access and auditing of search records and digital account viewing agreements for the enterprise digital platform.

We are looking for asolid Software Engineering Manager/Lead Engineertoleada small teamwhilepartnering with Product, Design, Test Engineeringand othersto deliver experiences which delight our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Dive success through our teams - leveraging our people's strengths,makingdecisionsbased on data,identifyingopportunities,and apply continuous learningdaily.
• Expected tooperate as a "player/coach".
• You'll need to learn our code, systems, processes, and operations by functioning as an individual contributor on some tasks so that you can help other folks excel.
• Understand key needs and opportunities and then propose solutions and systems to effect change.
• Steepen the growth trajectory of each and every engineerthrough mentoring and providing personal feedback on regular basis.
• Write detailed design documents and integrate feedback into said documents;likewise provide feedback for others.
• Writesecure,high-qualitycode and integrate code-review feedback into saidcode.
• Solves complex problems; takes a new perspectiveand innovateson existing solutions.
• Deploy systems that are resilient, robust, and monitored
• On-call, evening and weekend work required as needed.
• Coordinate with other leads to align approaches for consistency.
• Interview, hire, and onboardcandidates- as needed.

Ideal candidate, would have following skills:

• Built high-qualityteams and systems.
• Advocate and practice lean leadership while driving to success.
• Experienced the strong psychological safety of a high output team.
• 6+ years writing software as an individual contributor- Java / NodeJS preferred.
• 3+ years production support responsibilities.
• Working knowledge of the Spring Framework and JUnit.
• Experiencebuilding/operating reliable, concurrent always-on data processing systems.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services - S3, SQS,DynamoDBpreferred.
• DevOps experience is a plus.
• Experience writing queries and performing analytics with Elasticsearch.
• Working knowledge developing cloud based,dockerizedapplications and microservices.
• Working knowledge offront-endcomponents and frameworks such as React and Node.
• Experience writing and debugging multithreaded Java applications.
• Experience withGithubfor source code management.
• Technical, must enjoy getting your hands dirty above and beyond the Java platform.

Who You Are:

• Good-natured, humble, and generally positive person.
• Collaborativeteam member who cares more about proper solutions than being right.
• Growth-mindset with a healthy dose of skepticism.
• Strong written and verbal communicator who errs on the side of over communication.
• Strong sense of responsibility with a bias towards action.
• Comfortable self-directing and prioritizing your own work.
• Ability to take initiative and work with minimal supervision, yet actively interact with other team members in person or over the Internet (chat, videoconference, email).
• Fast learner and self-starter. The people you will work with are incredibly kind and extremely willing to share knowledge and a helping hand, but youhave tobe willing to take ownership of the outlined goals and make things happen.
• Work collaboratively on creative solutions with engineers, product managers and designers in an agile like environment.

This job is not covered by the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Required Certifications:

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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.