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 are seeking experienced, agile developers with a desire to build Northwestern Mutual's future through modern software applications. You're the right fit if you're a great team player and there isn't a problem you can't solve.
You will be working on a team building new features and maintaining an application that our Financial Representatives will use for showing Life Insurance illustrations to clients. This team is located in Downtown Milwaukee.
What You'll Do:
- Provides technical leadership within a software engineering Scrum team, leading by example and coordinating the activities of others on the team as well as dependencies with other teams.
- Contributes to ensuring a high standard of reliability, performance and production stability in applications and services owned and supported by the team.
- Contributes as assigned to refinement of features allocated to the team, as well as solution definition and decomposition into stories.
- Leads engineering efforts as assigned, ensuring features are completed and deployed by dates committed to in quarterly Program Increment (PI) planning, and overcoming challenges as needed.
- Takes initiative to identify and advocate opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Partners with peer engineers across Illustrations to avoid silos and achieve outcomes optimized for the larger engineering team and the needs of the business.
- Contribute to an inclusive culture within the team, models company values and behaviors, and encourages collaboration and respect for diverse perspectives.
- Establishes and promotes standards and best practices within the team.
- Maintains and exercises influence across all of Illustrations and with partner teams outside of Illustrations
What You'll Bring to the Role:
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- 5-8+ years professional software development experience required
- Advanced skill and understanding of web development using JavaScript, Typescript, Node.js, and Webpack
- Demonstrated critical thinking, ownership mindset and continuous learning ability
- Capable of effectively communicating with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
- Manages own time to meet objectives.
- Ability to perform peer reviews on code and designs.
- Shown understanding of design patterns and software architecture principles.
Further impress us with:
- Experience working with micro-front-end development
- Experience working with AWS SQS, DynamoDB, or S3 Buckets
- Experience working with Linux
Our Culture:
- Empowered Engineers
- Technical Curiosity
- Casual, Challenging, and Collaborative Environment
- Outstanding Products
- Hackathons / Dedication to Innovation
- Conferences and Meetups
- Work-Life Balance
- Free Lunch
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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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$118,960.00
Pay Range - End:
$178,440.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
$130,880.00 USD - $196,320.00 USD
Structure 115:
$136,800.00 USD - $205,200.00 USD
We believe in fairness and transparency. It's why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you're living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.
Skills
React.js, AWS DynamoDB, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, Linux, JavaScript, Node.js
FIND YOUR FUTURE
We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
- Flexible work schedules
- Concierge service
- Comprehensive benefits
- Employee resource groups
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What We Do
You’ll Like It Here At Northwestern Mutual, we believe that our lives and our work matter. And that doing what’s right is good for everyone. We follow through by designing tech that improves the community and cultivating creative ways to make finance accessible anywhere. These guiding principles have allowed our company to grow for more than 160 years. Here, you’ll be with a team who emphasizes integrity and prioritizes security to design experiences that better everyone. You’ll work in cross functional teams to create optimal solutions that are rooted in innovative strategy and thoughtful execution. And you’re provided development tools and opportunities to become a leader all with the support of a collaborative team. You’ll be surrounded in a culture that values innovation and works to always evolve to stay ahead of trends and client needs. We are intentional in seeking out team members who will challenge us. Our employees choose us for the career opportunities, commitment to philanthropy and desire to have a meaningful impact in the lives of our clients. You have career passions and goals. We have ambition and opportunity for you to grow your future in tech. Discover today: https://careers.northwesternmutual.com/
Why Work With Us
We invest in our people. We know careers are about choices, so we provide intentional opportunity. Here you can build creative ways to make finance accessible anywhere and revolutionize traditional processes. As a mutual company, our focus is our people — whether professional development or investments in the community.
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