Senior Software Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Potential for remote work 2 days/week

Job summary

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

The role emphasizes Agile practices, collaboration with engineers and stakeholders, and mentoring junior engineers. You will deploy to AWS, monitor production systems, and contribute to architecture and testing strategies while maintaining

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Applied Computer Science or related field and 4 years of software engineering experience.
• Web development using JavaScript, HTML, CSS for responsive UI development.
• Design, build, and deploy scalable APIs (REST).
• Frontend architecture patterns, state management (Redux/Context API).
• Front-end testing frameworks (Jest, RTL, Cypress).
• AWS and cloud deployment of microservices.
• CI/CD concepts, GitLab pipelines, infrastructure as code.

Responsibilities

• Develop and modernize insurance and investment microapps.
• Build responsive UIs and robust microservices.
• Collaborate with engineers and business stakeholders to brainstorm requirements.
• Mentor junior engineers and participate in estimation sessions.
• Deploy and monitor production code weekly and maintain docs.

Skills

JavaScript

React

Node.js

Redux

GraphQL

SQL

REST

SOAP

AWS

Express.js

CSS frameworks

GitLab

CI/CD

Testing frameworks

Education

Bachelor's degree in Applied Computer Science or related field

4 years of software engineering experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Grafana

Dynatrace

Heap

React Testing Library

Jest

Playwright

Applitools

AWS cloud deployment

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

1. Bachelor's degree in Applied Computer Science or a related field and 4 years of experience as a software engineer or related occupation.
2. (1) web development using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and CSS frameworks for responsive UI development;
3. (2) designing, building, and deploying scalable APIs (REST);
4. (3) relational databases, including schema design, development of complex queries, and stored procedures;
5. (4) frontend architecture patterns, state management solutions (Redux or Context API), and component design;
6. (5) front-end testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library, or Cypress);
7. (6) AWS;
8. (7) cross-browser compatibility, accessibility standards, and performance optimization for enterprise web applications;
9. (8) Agile and Scrum environment;
10. (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.

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