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At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative, and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference. What's the Role? As a senior full-stack engineer, you'll help us build a modern application platform, on top of AWS and Kubernetes, that hosts our user-facing apps. Our clients are your fellow engineers, building micro apps, dashboards and UI to service our home office users at Northwestern Mutual. Help build essential apps that our clients heavily depend upon. You will be immersed in the vast breadth of modern and legacy tools and technologies to get the job done, such as AWS Cloud infrastructure, NodeJS, Front-end web development, and a robust CI/CD pipeline. As a senior engineer, you will work in an agile and innovative environment, solving complex problems, and collaborating with both architects and designers to deliver the platform. Bring Your Best! What this role needs:- Ability to analyze, design, develop, and deploy web apps and micro services hosted within AWS Cloud Infrastructure
- Strong JavaScript experience building backend NodeJS micro-services
- Comfortable with Unit Testing and Integration Testing and Best Practices
- Experience with RDMS & KV stores
- Experience working in AWS. Experience building robust and easy to consume RESTful APIs
- Self-motivated and driven. A team player that effectively works well with other engineers, product owners, and non-technical roles
- 5+ years of development experience
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Strong sense of ownership and the ability to work with a limited set of requirements.
- Build day-to-day like a startup - incrementally and iteratively - but with the security and resources of an enterprise budget.
- Release to production early and often - you won't be working on a product for a year before it sees the light of day; we believe in MVPs.
- Work with talented, mission-driven, fun-loving team who values your input and your individuality
- Advocate for technology solutions
- Mentor teammates on topics your demonstrate as your strengths
- Using a modern tech stack, deliver a high value enterprise account servicing platform used by our underwriters in the home office
- AWS experience with platform services
- Advocate of test-driven development, with experience using unit testing frameworks such as Jest
- Experience designing and implementing product admin systems
- Familiarity with DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Ansible/Terraform)
- Strong front-end tool belt (such as React/Redux, hooks, Saas)
- Knowledge of engineering best practices, including analyzing, designing, developing, deploying, and supporting software solutions and infrastructure
- Knowledge of Insurance and Investment account domain (Life Insurance products, Annuities, Long Term Care, Disability Insurance, Investments)
- Highly competitive compensation, including annual bonus opportunities
- Medical/Dental/Vision, 401 (k), and pension program
- Tuition reimbursement, commuter plans, and paid time off
- Extensive Professional Training Opportunities
- Excellent Work/Life Balance
- Hackathons/Commitment to Innovation