Senior Software Engineer – Remote & AWS Microservices

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

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