The Sr Software Engineer will enhance a financial modeling backend platform, lead project architecture, and provide guidance in a collaborative team.
Northwestern Mutual (NM) has been helping families and businesses achieve financial security for over 165+ years. Through a distinctive, whole-picture planning approach including both insurance and investments, we empower people to be financially confident. We combine the expertise of our financial professionals with personalized digital experience and leading-edge technology to best serve our clients. To help guide the collaborative effort, we are in search of a Software Engineer III to join our team.
What's the Role?
The Planning Solutions team builds the suite of applications that takes the company's vision of being at the center of the financial lives of our clients forward. The Planning Solutions engineering space is divided into various teams that work across the stack to deliver functionality to the business, starting from the front-end UI to the back-end financial planning and modelling platform. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on initiatives that span across various areas of the platform and work with teams that specialize in a broad range of areas in the stack.
You're the right fit if you're eager to grow but already see things through the eyes of an architect - someone who keeps the big picture in mind no matter the task. You're eager to dive into unfamiliar source with the understanding that we respect what came before while we work to improve it. You understand that the best solution is the solution that delivers the value that our users want and need while designing for the engineers that come after us.
You will be working on systems across the Planning Solutions Org that provide the future visions of the digital experiences for Northwestern Mutual. We need engineers who can help us mature our space and take our applications to the next level.
As a Senior Engineer you...
- Are a fast learner and self-starter. You take initiative to deliver on commitments with quality and consistency under minimal supervision and a limited set of requirements.
- Work alongside your business partners and various stakeholders to make sure the work we deliver is of value to our end users.
- Utilize advanced software engineering principles to create efficient and effective solutions.
- Demonstrate the ability to effectively address and overcome challenges arising from ambiguities, devising robust solutions to ensure successful outcomes.
- Ensure production stability, monitoring, and root cause analysis is executed for your products.
- Communicate technical solutions to audiences with varying degrees of technical acumen.
- Break down work into user stories with acceptance criteria and efficiently lead estimation effort.
- Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and the ability to drive solutions to completion, ensuring accountability and successful project outcomes.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to other team members and leaders, including reviewing their work and offering constructive feedback to support their professional growth.
- Are a strong communicator and understand that alignment on the work is just as important as the work.
As a Senior Engineer you have...
- 5+ years professional full-stack development experience, ideally in React and Java/Kotlin.
- Experience in Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot and PostgreSQL.
- Experience building and designing solutions using microservice and event-driven architecture.
- An understanding of RESTful API design and development standards.
- The ability to design and optimize database schemas.
- Experience working in an enterprise software environment utilizing DevOps principles and tooling.
- Experience with modern component-driven JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React, Angular).
- A BS/MS or higher in Computer Science or related field of study
Bonus: Functional programming paradigms and design patterns (experience in Scala, Haskell, etc.), AWS experience, infrastructure-design/application architecture experience
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$102,060.00
Pay Range - End:
$189,540.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
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. The standard pay structure is listed but if you're living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. 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.
What's the Role?
The Planning Solutions team builds the suite of applications that takes the company's vision of being at the center of the financial lives of our clients forward. The Planning Solutions engineering space is divided into various teams that work across the stack to deliver functionality to the business, starting from the front-end UI to the back-end financial planning and modelling platform. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on initiatives that span across various areas of the platform and work with teams that specialize in a broad range of areas in the stack.
You're the right fit if you're eager to grow but already see things through the eyes of an architect - someone who keeps the big picture in mind no matter the task. You're eager to dive into unfamiliar source with the understanding that we respect what came before while we work to improve it. You understand that the best solution is the solution that delivers the value that our users want and need while designing for the engineers that come after us.
You will be working on systems across the Planning Solutions Org that provide the future visions of the digital experiences for Northwestern Mutual. We need engineers who can help us mature our space and take our applications to the next level.
As a Senior Engineer you...
- Are a fast learner and self-starter. You take initiative to deliver on commitments with quality and consistency under minimal supervision and a limited set of requirements.
- Work alongside your business partners and various stakeholders to make sure the work we deliver is of value to our end users.
- Utilize advanced software engineering principles to create efficient and effective solutions.
- Demonstrate the ability to effectively address and overcome challenges arising from ambiguities, devising robust solutions to ensure successful outcomes.
- Ensure production stability, monitoring, and root cause analysis is executed for your products.
- Communicate technical solutions to audiences with varying degrees of technical acumen.
- Break down work into user stories with acceptance criteria and efficiently lead estimation effort.
- Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and the ability to drive solutions to completion, ensuring accountability and successful project outcomes.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to other team members and leaders, including reviewing their work and offering constructive feedback to support their professional growth.
- Are a strong communicator and understand that alignment on the work is just as important as the work.
As a Senior Engineer you have...
- 5+ years professional full-stack development experience, ideally in React and Java/Kotlin.
- Experience in Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot and PostgreSQL.
- Experience building and designing solutions using microservice and event-driven architecture.
- An understanding of RESTful API design and development standards.
- The ability to design and optimize database schemas.
- Experience working in an enterprise software environment utilizing DevOps principles and tooling.
- Experience with modern component-driven JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React, Angular).
- A BS/MS or higher in Computer Science or related field of study
Bonus: Functional programming paradigms and design patterns (experience in Scala, Haskell, etc.), AWS experience, infrastructure-design/application architecture experience
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$102,060.00
Pay Range - End:
$189,540.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
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. The standard pay structure is listed but if you're living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. 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
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