Senior Software Engineer - Nodejs

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?

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team to help design, deliver, & modernize our enterprise Notification platform. This is a highly rewarding role which will bring immediate value to our clients & field reps. You will be building systems that communicate via multiple delivery channels including mobile push, email, & through our web & mobile apps. You can expect to use tools such as AWS Cloud infrastructure, data visualization & application monitoring tools, micro-service architecture, pub/sub messaging systems, and a robust CI/CD pipeline on a day to day basis. As Senior Software Engineer, you will be tasked with providing guidance and direction to fellow engineers while driving the technical vision for our platform.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical leadership to team
• Establishes, aggregates, documents, and shares team standards and best practices with our team and department
• Utilizes working relationships the team and within our organization
• Assesses and provides solutions to platform-wide architectural problems
• Communicates effectively across engineering & business
• Transforms business requirements into long term technology solutions
• Leads MR reviews, pair programs with fellow team members, mentors other engineers

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 4 - 6+ years of development experience
• 4 - 6+ years of experience working with modern engineering tools, languages and practices
• Strong JavaScript & Typescript experience building backend NodeJS micro-services
• Strong unit test & integration testing experience (Jest or Vitest)
• Strong experience with a variety of Database Systems (NoSQL, Relational)
• Experience providing long term technical direction and driving solutions
• Experience with AWS Cloud Services (AWS Certification preferred) and containerized applications
• Experience with Dynatrace, New Relic, or other APM solutions focused on observability and alerting
• Experience with monitoring and performance management/tuning of systems
• Experience working with DevOps, CICD, GitOps, Agile methodologies
• Experience designing GraphQL APIs preferred
• Demonstrated critical thinking, ownership mindset and continuous learning
• Experience providing mentorship to junior engineers
• Ability of communicating between product, engineering, and the business
• Manages own time to meet objectives
• Ability to perform peer reviews on code and design
• Solid understanding of design patterns and architecture

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Compensation Range:

Pay Range- Start:

$100,030.00

Pay Range- End:

$185,770.00

Northwestern Mutual pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement in the salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. At Northwestern Mutual, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Please note that the salary range listed in the posting is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location. Please click here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.

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