Software Engineer III

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Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid
93K-172K Annually
Fintech • Insurance • Financial Services
Start-Up Vibes with The Stability of a Fortune 100 Company.
The Role
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.
This team works on delivering the the foundational components of the Planning Solutions stack. In this role, you will be involved with working with various stakeholders to define, implement and test features that will be used by a broad set to teams to implement solutions for our financial planning clients.
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

Qualifications
  • 3+ years of professional experience.
  • Technical skills: Spring boot, Java, Kotlin, Data modeling, S3, REST, Domain APIs, Postgres, Domain APIs, Business Events, Hibernate
  • 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

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

Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$92,750.00
Pay Range - End:
$172,250.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
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.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
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.
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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