Senior Software Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Telecommuting 2 days per week

Job summary

Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in Milwaukee, WI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to modernize and enhance insurance and investment microapps. You will build responsive UIs using JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, and manage backend services with Node.js, Express, and GraphQL.

The role emphasizes AWS microservices, Docker/Kubernetes, and robust testing. You will collaborate across teams, mentor juniors, and contribute to architectural decisions while supporting production systems and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Applied Computer Science or a related field and 4 years of experience as a software engineer or related occupation.
• Experience with web development using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and CSS frameworks for responsive UI development.
• Experience designing, building, and deploying scalable APIs (REST).
• Relational databases including schema design, development of complex queries, and stored procedures.
• Frontend architecture patterns, state management solutions (Redux or Context API), and component design.
• Frontend testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library, or Cypress).
• AWS, cross-browser compatibility, accessibility standards, and performance optimization for enterprise web applications.
• Agile and Scrum environment; CI/CD concepts and tools including GitLab pipelines, infrastructure as code, and change management.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with an engineering team and monitor production systems, fix bugs, write new features, and maintain documentation.
• Mentor junior engineers and participate in estimation sessions.
• Design, build, and maintain databases and services; set up connections to external services to pull data from enterprise systems.
• Deploy and monitor production codebase on a weekly cadence; manage CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments.
• Create monitoring and alerting to eliminate downtime and troubleshoot production issues.

Skills

JavaScript

React

Node.js

HTML

Redux

GraphQL

SQL

REST

SOAP

AWS

Express.js

CSS frameworks

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Applied Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Grafana

Dynatrace

Heap

GitLab

CI/CD pipelines

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. Experience must include 4 years of experience with each of the following: (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; and (9) CI/CD concepts and tools including GitLab pipelines, infrastructure as code, and change management.

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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