At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
What's The role?
As a Senior Software Engineer in Finance & Risk, you'll be enhancing our Sourcing & Procurement and Financial Planning & Analysis experience and helping shape the future of our financial platform. We work in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment, embrace out-of-box thinking, instill engineering excellence, and focus on the highest priorities. We strive to foster safe spaces for our teams to share bold ideas, embrace experimentation and continuous learning. As a member of our engineering team, you will be finding innovative ways to develop resilient, sustainable, secure, and scalable solutions to create an exemplary experience for our user base while utilizing agile practices. As part of the test-centric software engineering culture at Northwestern Mutual, we are looking for a software engineer with serious JavaScript experience and a passion for writing testable code for the role of Senior Software Engineer. We are on the lookout for someone who understands full stack solutions, has working Dev Ops experience, and can play a vital part in designing and integrating with API infrastructure. You should have experience creating user interfaces and solving big data challenges with cloud-based solutions that mine data and combine it with modern analytic tools. Prior experience supporting vendor applications like IBM Planning Analytics is a plus. Bring Your Best!
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
- Demonstrates technical leadership to team and leads technical development and transformation
- Leads collaboration with third-party vendors
- Can solve complex problems independently with minimal supervision
- Establishes, aggregates, and shares team standards and best practices within department.
- Utilizes working relationships across teams within their division.
- Assesses and provides solutions to system-wide architectural problems.
- Develops new integrations with APIs and incorporate event-driven design
- Strong requirements gathering and ability to document
- Incorporates automation and unit test code quality
- Exhibits appetite for continuous learning and improvement
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- 4-5 years professional experience required
- 3-5+ years of experience working with modern engineering tools, languages and practices
- Demonstrated critical thinking, ownership mindset and continuous learning
- Experience developing solutions using agile methods
- Mentor for the team and department
- Advanced skillset in one or more technical platforms
- Strong communication skills capable of communicating between product, engineering, and the business
- Manages own time to meet objectives
- Ability to perform peer reviews on code and design
- Solid understanding of design patterns and architecture
Technical Skills:
- AWS Cloud Developer/Admin Certification
- AWS Glue
- Lambda
- Python (w PySpark & vscode)
- Kafka
- NodeJS
- Kotlin
- SQL
- AWS Aurora Postgres
- DB2 UDB
- GitHub/Terraform
- Kubernetes, Docker, SonarQube,
- Bruno / APIs
- Informatica
- PowerBI
- Airflow
- CTRL-M
- Erwin
- IBM Planning Analytics
- ServiceNow
- Snowflake
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Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$102,060.00
Pay Range - End:
$189,540.00
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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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.
If you work or would be working in California, Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate location, please click here for information pertaining to compensation and benefits.
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 commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Flexible work schedules
- Concierge service
- Comprehensive benefits
- Employee resource groups
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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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