Job Description

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

In this role, you have the potential to bring immediate value to our clients by building systems that our financial representatives use every day.

You're the right fit if you're a great team player and there isn't a problem you can't solve. We need an application developer who is passionate about writing code that meets business needs.

You will be managing a team building new features and maintaining an application that our Financial Representatives will use for showing Life Insurance illustrations to clients. This team is located downtown.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

* Provides technical leadership to team.
* Develops and shares team standards and best practices across area with peers.
* Mentors, guides and coaches engineers within their division for technical and leadership growth
* Recruits , hires and onboards talent within respective department, ensuring the right mix of talent within team.
* Ensures production stability, monitoring, and root cause analysis for their products.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

* Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience
* 4-5 years of professional experience required
* 5+ years of experience working with modern engineering tools, languages and practices.
* Experience with Javascript, React, and AWS (or other cloud hosting)
* 1-2 years technical leadership with or without direct reports.
* Proven track record of successfully designing and delivering significant and impactful technology solutions.
* Experience developing and leading solution delivery using agile methods.
* Capable of communicating between product, engineering, and the business.
* Ability to successfully communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences in varying forms and levels of detail.
* Leads the team to collaboration.

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This job is not covered by the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement.

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