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Manager, Software Engineering

Northwestern Mutual | Milwaukee, WI

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Posted Date 1/16/2025
Description

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

Northwestern Mutual (NM) has been helping families and businesses achieve financial security for over 165+ years. Through a distinctive, whole-picture planning approach including both insurance and investments, we empower people to be financially confident. We combine the expertise of our financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and leading-edge technology to best serve our clients. To help guide the collaborative effort, we are in search of a Software Engineering Manager to join our team. 

 

What's the Role?  

The Planning Solutions team builds the suite of applications that takes the company’s vision of being at the center of the financial lives of our clients, forward. Within Planning Solutions, the Compute team works at the intersection of technology and financial modeling. The team maintains and enhances the backend modelling platform that is used to build a comprehensive financial plan for our clients. This involves building the underlying infrastructure as well as implementing the financial planning business logic to create various simulations, solvers, scenarios that are required to predict the financial future of the client and provide them with recommendations to secure it. All the number crunching related to the financial plan is handled by this team.  

Currently, we are working to take our vision of developing the next generation of financial planning applications forward, along with an increased focus on making our current suite of applications more performant and feature rich. We are looking for driven, financially minded backend engineers with a passion for building a new class of planning software.  

Our team is composed of engineers who thrive in a highly collaborative team environment designed to solve complex problems. We leverage functional programming paradigms heavily as they fit our problem space well. Our services are developed in Scala, Java, and Kotlin and are deployed on a highly distributed AWS stack. If you are passionate about solving complex financial problems efficiently, thinking outside the box and have a knack for functional programming, we want to hear from you.  

As a manager on the Compute team, you will help build a team that will take the center stage for our data modelling and strategy. You will be a hands-on manager that participates in development and defines the architecture and data strategy for the team. You will create a team culture that aligns with the values of the company and our organization. You will also be responsible for mentoring and building the skillset of junior developers on the team. If any of this excites you, we want to hear from you! 

 

Primary Duties & Responsibilities  

  • Implements holistic solutions utilizing working relationships across the enterprise. 

  • Designs, organizes, and executes high impact solutions across teams both within and outside their division. 

  • Establishes, aggregates, and shares enterprise standards and best practices. 

  • Mentors and guides junior engineers within respective division. 

  • Ensures production stability, monitoring, and root cause analysis is executed for their products. 

Qualifications  

  • 3+ years of professional experience leading a team 

  • Experience developing and leading solution delivery using Agile methods. 

  • Ability to effectively communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences in varying forms and levels of detail. 

  • Solid understanding of design patterns and architecture. 

  • Experience with data modelling and data transformation. 

  • Experience with Financial Programming 

  • A track record of delivering high-quality software in the FinTech space and experience engineering complex systems 

  • Ability to work independently as well as lead a small team of developers 

  • Experience working in an enterprise software environment (CI/CD, K8s, Docker, etc.) 

  • Financial planning or modeling experience in an OO/FP programming language, particularly for the JVM 

  • Bonus : Functional programming paradigms and design patterns (experience in Scala, Haskell, etc.), AWS experience, infrastructure-design/application architecture experience 

  • BS/MS or higher in Computer Science or related field of study 

Benefits:  

  • Tuition reimbursement, commuter plans, and paid time off 

  • Highly competitive compensation that include base salary plus bonus 

  • Medical/Dental/Vision plans, 401(k), pension program 

  

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Compensation Range:

Pay Range - Start:

$123,480.00

Pay Range - End:

$229,320.00

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 c lick here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.

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We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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