Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

The Wealth Engineering team is seeking an experienced engineer to build modern top tier application(s) by collaborating with product, engineers and designers!

The role requires an agile engineering mindset, patience and persistence to solve complex problems, ability to get things done quickly but thoughtfully, and roll up the sleeves to dig deep into technology.
You’re the right fit if you’re the best of the best and have yet to meet a problem you couldn’t solve.  We need a coder who’s eager to grow but already sees things through the eyes of an architect - someone who keeps the big picture in mind no matter the task. We need a developer that always codes with performance, scalability, and concurrency in mind. We need a hacker who reads code like a book and enjoys digging into unfamiliar source, and we’d love if you were someone who can debug another’s code as easily as you can debug your own.

You will be working on the systems that provide the future visions of the digital experiences for Northwestern Mutual. We need engineers who can help us mature our space and take our applications to the next level.
 

Competencies:

• Fast learner and self-starter: take initiative to deliver on commitments with quality and consistency under minimal supervision and a limited set of requirements.
• Demonstrate the ability to effectively address and overcome challenges arising from ambiguities, devising robust solutions to ensure successful outcomes.
• Utilize advanced software engineering principles to create efficient and effective solutions.
• Willingness to actively participate in hands-on development activities, contributing to the coding and implementation of solutions.
• Able to communicate technical solutions to audiences with varying degrees of technical acumen.
• Demonstrate resourcefulness and flexibility: willing to plan, do, check and adjust.
• Break down work into user stories with acceptance criteria and efficiently lead estimation effort.
• Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and the ability to drive solutions to completion, ensuring accountability and successful project outcomes.
• Bring new ideas and creative problem-solving skills to the team.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to other team members, including reviewing their work and offering constructive feedback to support their professional growth.
• Able to collaborate across remote/virtual channels with peers, teams, and stakeholders in the organization.

Professional Experience:

• 4-5+ years professional full-stack development experience, ideally in React, NodeJS and SQL.
• Experience in Node.js, including Express.js or other relevant frameworks
• Experience building and designing solutions using microservice and event-driven architecture
• Understanding of RESTful API design and development
• Ability to design and optimize database schemas, run complex queries, and manage database transactions
• Experience deploying Node applications in containerized cloud environments
• Experience with DevOps tools and processes to build and deploy applications: Git version control system, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform)
• Exposure to modern component-driven JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React, Angular)
• Experience working on a geographically distributed Scrum/Agile team

General Milestones:

• Within the first month - while working with engineers on the teams, be able to jump head-first into new applications and ask the appropriate questions / do the appropriate research to identify the general functions and behaviors of the system. Begin contributing to minor backlog items.
• Within three months - have proficient knowledge of the baseline applications and be able to take the reins around backlog items and appropriately spec and develop code to contribute directly to the GIT repositories.  Be able to dive into the overall application distribution architectures and navigate the cloud environments in which they run.
• Within six months - be able to navigate the full stack of the applications and supporting components, contributing directly to engineering discussions that affect the current and future state of the applications.  Essentially, contributing to the team at your full capacity

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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 click here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.

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.

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