Software Engineer III

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Northwestern Mutual (NM) has been helping families and businesses achieve financial security for over 165+ years. Through a distinctive, whole-picture planning approach including both insurance and investments, we empower people to be financially confident. We combine the expertise of our financial professionals with personalized digital experience and leading-edge technology to best serve our clients. To help guide the collaborative effort, we are in search of a Software Engineer III to join our team.
What's the Role?
The Planning Solutions team builds the suite of applications that takes the company's vision of being at the center of the financial lives of our clients forward. The PS engineering space is divided into various teams that work across the stack to deliver functionality to the business, starting from the front-end UI to the back-end financial planning and modelling platform. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on initiatives that span across various areas of the platform and work with teams that specialize in a broad range of areas in the stack.
The primary responsibility of this team is to enhance and optimize the data flows for the organization. You will be involved in design and implementation of data schema changes and data pipelines that streamline data flow for the org. The vision for this team is to implement data engineering solutions that are robust, optimized, and are implemented with enterprise vision of integration across various platforms in mind. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with enterprise level engineering teams who define broader guidelines for solutioning and use these guidelines to implement solutions in the Planning Solutions space.
The team is also responsible for building data transformation solutions with scalability and future proofing in mind. The epics that are road mapped for this team will set the stage of the overall data strategy for the org. You will also have the opportunity to delve into other areas of the stack which include the UI (React), middle tier (Node, Java, Spring Boot), and backend (MongoDB, Postgres, S3).
Our team is composed of engineers who thrive in a highly collaborative team environment designed to solve complex problems. As a senior engineer on the team, you will help build a full stack team that can work on a varying set of initiatives defined by the business requirements. You will help create a team culture that aligns with the values of the company and our organization. You will also be responsible for mentoring and building the skillset of junior developers on the team. If any of this excites you, we want to hear from you!
Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Implements holistic solutions utilizing working relationships across the enterprise.

• Designs, organizes, and executes high impact solutions across teams both within and outside their division.

• Establishes, aggregates, and shares enterprise standards and best practices.

• Mentors and guides junior engineers within respective division.

• Ensures production stability, monitoring, and root cause analysis is executed for their products.

• 3+ years of professional experience working in a complex financial domain.

• Experience developing and leading solution delivery using Agile methods.

• Ability to effectively communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences in varying forms and levels of detail.

• Solid understanding of design patterns and architecture.

• Experience with SDLC process.

• Experience with Financial Programming.

• A track record of delivering high-quality software in the FinTech space and experience engineering complex systems.

• Ability to develop solutions of complex problems independently.

• Experience working in an enterprise software environment (CI/CD, K8s, Docker, etc.)

• Financial planning or modeling experience in an OO/FP programming language, particularly for the JVM

• Bonus: Functional programming paradigms and design patterns, AWS experience, infrastructure-design/application architecture experience

• BS/MS or higher in Computer Science or related field of study

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience.

• Experience developing and leading solution delivery using Agile methods.

• Ability to effectively communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences in varying forms and levels of detail.

• Experience working on broad initiatives in a full stack engineer capacity.

• Solid understanding of design patterns and architecture.

• Experience with data modelling and data transformation.

• Ability to work independently as well as lead a small team of developers

• Experience working in an enterprise software environment (CI/CD, K8s, Docker, etc.)

• BS/MS or higher in Computer Science or related field of study

• Technical skills: Spring boot, React/Node, MongoDB, Data modeling, S3, REST, Domain APIs, Postgres, Domain APIs, Business Events.

Benefits:

• Tuition reimbursement, commuter plans, and paid time off

• Highly competitive compensation that include base salary plus bonus

• Medical/Dental/Vision plans, 401(k), pension program

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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$92,750.00
Pay Range - End:
$172,250.00
Northwestern Mutual pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement in the salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. At Northwestern Mutual, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Please note that the salary range listed in the posting 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 c lick here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.
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• Flexible work schedules
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• Comprehensive benefits
• Employee resource groups