Senior Software Engineer

Northwestern Mutual; Milwaukee (WI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work schedules

Concierge service

Comprehensive benefits

Employee resource groups

Job summary

Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in Milwaukee, WI seeks a Senior Software Engineer to enhance and modernize insurance and investment microapps. You will build responsive UIs and robust microservices using JavaScript, React, Node.js, GraphQL, SQL, REST, SOAP, and AWS technologies.

You will collaborate with an engineering team, mentor juniors, and participate in Agile development. The role includes monitoring production systems, deploying weekly, and ensuring code quality with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Applied Computer Science or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer or related occupation.
• Web development using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and CSS frameworks for responsive UI development.
• Designing, building, and deploying scalable APIs (REST).
• Frontend architecture patterns, state management (Redux or Context API).
• Frontend testing with Jest, React Testing Library, or Cypress.
• Experience with AWS.

Responsibilities

• Monitor production systems, fix bugs, implement new features, and maintain documentation.
• Participate in engineering estimation sessions and mentor junior engineers.
• Collaborate with engineers and business stakeholders to brainstorm requirements.
• Explain technical solutions to both technical and non-technical teams.
• Architect, build, and maintain databases and services.
• Deploy microservices to AWS using Docker/Kubernetes and monitor deployments.
• Set up data connections to external enterprise systems.
• Establish monitoring to reduce downtime and troubleshoot production issues.

Skills

JavaScript

React

Node.js

HTML

Redux

GraphQL

SQL

REST

SOAP

AWS

Express.js

CSS frameworks

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitLab

Testing (React Testing Library/Jest)

Playwright

Cypress

Grafana

Dynatrace

Heap

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Applied Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab Pipelines

CI/CD tooling

React Testing Library

Jest

Playwright

Applitools

Grafana

Dynatrace

Heap

Job description

The Senior Software Engineer at Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in Milwaukee, WI will enhance and modernize top-tier insurance and investment microapps. Utilize development skills in JavaScript, React, Node.js, HTML, Redux, GraphQL, SQL, REST, SOAP, AWS microservices, Express.js, and CSS frameworks to build responsive user interfaces and microservices. Apply advanced knowledge of software engineering and design principles to create performant data visualizations of technical products with an intuitive interface. Practice Agile methodologies to implement technical application requirements and understand business needs for specific technical projects. Collaborate with an engineering team and responsible for monitoring production systems, fixing bugs, writing new features, maintaining documentation, participating in engineering estimation sessions, and mentoring junior engineers. Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers and business stakeholders to brainstorm requirements for features and solutions to complex problems. Explain technical solutions to both technical and non-technical teams and apply experience in architecting design solutions. Design, build, and maintain various databases and services. Set up connections to external services to pull data from enterprise systems. Utilize educational foundation in software engineering, database management systems, object-oriented programming, and principles of programming languages to contribute effectively to project development. Utilize containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. Collaborate with teams to deploy microservices to AWS cloud using containerization and maintain Kubernetes configurations. Deploy and monitor production codebase on a weekly cadence, perform checkouts, and verify changes after production deployment. Eliminate system downtime by creating monitoring techniques to alert for outages. Leverage tools such as Kube Dashboard, Grafana, Dynatrace, and Heap to monitor and troubleshoot production system logs. Apply experience with unit, visual, and end-to-end testing frameworks such as React Testing Library, Jest, Playwright, and Applitools to develop test cases. Apply experience with GitLab source control, CI/CD pipelines, and the YAML scripting language to create and maintain deployment and testing processes, and trigger CI/CD pipelines to deploy code and eliminate any manual deployment. Telecommuting permitted 2 days per week. Salary $120,494- $193,310 per year.

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Applied Computer Science or a related field and 4 years of experience as a software engineer or related occupation.

• (1) web development using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and CSS frameworks for responsive UI development;
• (2) designing, building, and deploying scalable APIs (REST);
• (3) relational databases, including schema design, development of complex queries, and stored procedures;
• (4) frontend architecture patterns, state management solutions (Redux or Context API), and component design;
• (5) front-end testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library, or Cypress);
• (6) AWS;
• (7) cross-browser compatibility, accessibility standards, and performance optimization for enterprise web applications;
• (8) Agile and Scrum environment;
• (9) CI/CD concepts and tools including GitLab pipelines, infrastructure as code, and change management.

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. If noted, this is standard pay structure for this position.

Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds. 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