Senior Software Engineer - Remote 2 Days/Week React

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

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