Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack JavaScript (Remote)

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.

Overview: 

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We embrace cutting-edge technologies to enable our business to grow at an unprecedented rate and are looking for great people to help drive this transformation.  

You will be joining the Planning Experience Team in New York. This Team is responsible for the software platform that helps our financial representatives engage with their clients, run financial simulations that emphasize the value of products that NM offers. More specifically you will be part of the Planning Experience application development team, which is responsible for delivering business value to their end users.  

We work in a fast-paced agile environment. We embrace out-of-box thinking, bold ideas, experimentation and the eagerness to continuously learn. We are not shy about trying new technologies and challenge our own ideas. We live by the concepts of fail-fast, continuously deploy and automate everything. We believe in full ownership: our teams are responsible for all aspects of their software, from architecture and testing to production monitoring and performance optimizations. 

As for technology, we believe in using the right tool for the job. Our application code is mostly written in JavaScript (Node, React, Redux/Recoil, and more). We use multiple cloud services as well such as AWS S3, Redis and CloudFront (among many others). We use RabbitMQ for messaging and run our services in Kubernetes on top of AWS. 

Your role will include: 

Be a vital part of PX Application engineering team, build product features, participate in architecture, implementation and health of the application ecosystem 

Work in a highly collaborative environment with product, QA and design teams, share your ideas and help shape the future of the platform 

Own feature development from early stages to production release and beyond 

Be ready to mentor engineers and share experience and knowledge  

Collaborate with the team frequently and facilitate new innovative ideas!  

Qualifications

• Senior level UI development using a modern JavaScript framework (React, Vue, Elm, etc.)
• Senior level knowledge of state management tooling such as Redux, Recoil etc. 
• Expert knowledge of Web technologies – HTML, CSS, HTTP Basics, Auth, OWASP, Web Performance, Caching) 
• Ability to write unit and integration tests and understanding of its importance 

Nice to have – an understanding of: 

• Docker and Kubernetes 
• Foundational AWS Services (IAM, EC2, S3, RDS) 
• Eagerness to learn a backend language such as Java/Kotlin to contribute across the stack (not required, only if desired) 

Familiarity with : 

• Git, CI/CD, Unit Testing 
• NodeJS ecosystem 

If any of this excites you, we want to hear from you! 

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