Remote Software Engineering Manager Jobs in Wisconsin

The Senior Software Engineer at Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in Milwaukee, WI will enhance and modernize top-tier insurance and investment microapps. Utilize development skills in JavaScript, React, Node.js, HTML, Redux, GraphQL, SQL, REST, SOAP, AWS microservices, Express.js, and CSS frameworks to build responsive user interfaces and microservices. Apply advanced knowledge of software engineering and design principles to create performant data visualizations of technical products with an intuitive interface. Practice Agile methodologies to implement technical application requirements and understand business needs for specific technical projects. Collaborate with an engineering team and responsible for monitoring production systems, fixing bugs, writing new features, maintaining documentation, participating in engineering estimation sessions, and mentoring junior engineers. Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers and business stakeholders to brainstorm requirements for features and solutions to complex problems. Explain technical solutions to both technical and non-technical teams and apply experience in architecting design solutions. Design, build, and maintain various databases and services. Set up connections to external services to pull data from enterprise systems. Utilize educational foundation in software engineering, database management systems, object-oriented programming, and principles of programming languages to contribute effectively to project development. Utilize containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. Collaborate with teams to deploy microservices to AWS cloud using containerization and maintain Kubernetes configurations. Deploy and monitor production codebase on a weekly cadence, perform checkouts, and verify changes after production deployment. Eliminate system downtime by creating monitoring techniques to alert for outages. Leverage tools such as Kube Dashboard, Grafana, Dynatrace, and Heap to monitor and troubleshoot production system logs. Apply experience with unit, visual, and end-to-end testing frameworks such as React Testing Library, Jest, Playwright, and Applitools to develop test cases. Apply experience with GitLab source control, CI/CD pipelines, and the YAML scripting language to create and maintain deployment and testing processes, and trigger CI/CD pipelines to deploy code and eliminate any manual deployment. Telecommuting permitted 2 days per week. Salary $120,494- $193,310 per year.

Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Applied Computer Science or a related field and 4 years of experience as a software engineer or related occupation. Experience must include 4 years of experience with each of the following: (1) web development using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and CSS frameworks for responsive UI development; (2) designing, building, and deploying scalable APIs (REST); (3) relational databases, including schema design, development of complex queries, and stored procedures; (4) frontend architecture patterns, state management solutions (Redux or Context API), and component design; (5) front-end testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library, or Cypress); (6) AWS; (7) cross-browser compatibility, accessibility standards, and performance optimization for enterprise web applications; (8) Agile and Scrum environment; and (9) CI/CD concepts and tools including GitLab pipelines, infrastructure as code, and change management.

Interested candidates send resume to apply@northwesternmutual.com. Reference code 576 in the subject line.

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