Team Lead Software Engineer

• Engage in Collaborative Innovation: Partner with stakeholders to deeply understand business requirements transforming them into scalable and secure technical solutions.

• Architect Tomorrow's Solutions: Design and architect software solutions with a forward-thinking mindset prioritizing performance scalability and seamless integration. Your work will be grounded in industry and enterprise best practices.

• Lead from the Front: Dive into development and software engineering tasks while guiding the team towards delivering top-tier solutions. Your hands-on leadership will set the bar for excellence.

• Provide technical direction mentorship and day-to-day guidance to engineers ensuring alignment with architectural standards and delivery goals.

• Champion Continuous Improvement: Drive initiatives aimed at enhancing efficiency quality and overall team performance. Your keen eye for optimization will shape our future success.

• Delivery & Team Ownership: Own team outcomes including delivery commitments code quality and engineering best practices while building a high-performing engineering culture.

• Academic Excellence: Hold a bachelor's degree in computer science engineering or a related field.

• Seasoned Expertise: Boast 6-8 years of experience in software development and solution architecture.

• Architectural Prowess: Showcase strong expertise in solution architecture backed by a proven track record of delivering complex scalable systems.

• Full-Stack Development: Proficiency in modern software development languages and frameworks including JavaScript (Node.js React Next.js) TypeScript CSS and Python.

• API and Domain Design: Strong experience in domain-driven API development including designing and building scalable secure and well-structured APIs aligned to business domains and enterprise architecture standards.

• Data & Platform Expertise: Experience designing and implementing data-driven solutions with hands-on exposure to modern data platforms such as Databricks. Strong knowledge of relational databases with a focus on PostgreSQL.

• Leadership & Communication: Proven ability to lead engineering teams including mentoring developers driving technical decisions and managing delivery while demonstrating strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

• Talent Development & Planning - Develops direct reports' skills based on organizational objectives evaluates skill gaps and manages succession planning to develop more capable direct reports diverse strong teams and better organizational performance in an equitable and inclusive manner.

• Software Development- Creates and maintains applications frameworks and other software components via designing programming testing and bug fixing; writes and maintains source code for all processes in the software development life cycle and facilitates the automation and orchestration of disparate systems. Leverage TDD (Test Driven Development) and BDD (Behavior Driven Development) methodologies to ensure unit integration and end-to-end testing with appropriate level of coverage is met.

• Customer Centricity - Applies a customer first mindset to design and continuously improve solutions systems processes and services that support enterprise strategy impact critical business outcomes and drive organizational success.

• Cross Functional Partnering & Planning - Facilitates collaboration communication coordination and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization and who have different areas of expertise to achieve common goals.

• Coaching & Mentoring - Develops others by providing actionable constructive feedback through the lens of technical expertise and offers guidance to others on how to leverage prioritize and develop skills to achieve one's goals and objectives.

• Application Performance Management - Ensures that critical applications meet established expectations for performance availability and customer or end-user experience. Confirms that SLAs are met and NFRs are addressed.

• Technical Problem Solving - Conducts in-depth analysis of technology needs issues and roadblocks within assigned scope applies best practice based on experience and expertise explores the "art of possible". Solves problems effectively and gains alignment on the path forward. Defines understands and documents what is being solved for.

• Flexible work schedules
• Concierge service
• Comprehensive benefits
• Employee resource groups

What We Do

You’ll Like It Here At Northwestern Mutual we believe that our lives and our work matter. And that doing what’s right is good for everyone. We follow through by designing tech that improves the community and cultivating creative ways to make finance accessible anywhere. These guiding principles have allowed our company to grow for more than 160 years. Here you’ll be with a team who emphasizes integrity and prioritizes security to design experiences that better everyone. You’ll work in cross functional teams to create optimal solutions that are rooted in innovative strategy and thoughtful execution. And you’re provided development tools and opportunities to become a leader all with the support of a collaborative team. You’ll be surrounded in a culture that values innovation and works to always evolve to stay ahead of trends and client needs. We are intentional in seeking out team members who will challenge us. Our employees choose us for the career opportunities commitment to philanthropy and desire to have a meaningful impact in the lives of our clients. You have career passions and goals. We have ambition and opportunity for you to grow your future in tech. Discover today: https://careers.northwesternmutual.com/

Why Work With Us

We invest in our people. We know careers are about choices so we provide intentional opportunity. Here you can build creative ways to make finance accessible anywhere and revolutionize traditional processes. As a mutual company our focus is our people — whether professional development or investments in the community. 

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