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Manager Software Engineering
Northwestern Mutual - Milwaukee, WI
posted about 2 months ago
About the position
The Software Engineering Manager at Northwestern Mutual is responsible for leading a small team focused on enhancing the digital document management platform. This role involves mentoring engineers, driving team success through data-driven decisions, and collaborating with various departments to improve client experiences. The manager will also engage in hands-on coding and system design, ensuring high-quality and secure software delivery while fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
Responsibilities
- Drive success through leveraging team strengths and making data-driven decisions.
- Function as an individual contributor to understand code, systems, and processes.
- Propose solutions and systems to address key needs and opportunities.
- Mentor engineers and provide regular personal feedback to support their growth.
- Write detailed design documents and integrate feedback into them.
- Write secure, high-quality code and incorporate code-review feedback.
- Solve complex problems and innovate on existing solutions.
- Deploy resilient and monitored systems.
- Coordinate with other leads for consistency in approaches.
- Interview, hire, and onboard new candidates as needed.
- Be available for on-call, evening, and weekend work as required.
Requirements
- 1-2 years of people leadership experience in a technical team.
- 6+ years of software development experience as an individual contributor in Java/NodeJS.
- 3+ years of production support responsibilities.
- Working knowledge of the Spring Framework and JUnit.
- Experience with AWS services, particularly S3, SQS, and DynamoDB.
- Experience building high-quality teams and systems.
- Advocating and practicing lean leadership principles.
- Experience with reliable, concurrent data processing systems.
- Knowledge of developing cloud-based, dockerized applications and microservices.
- Experience with front-end frameworks such as React and Node.
- Experience writing and debugging multithreaded Java applications.
- Familiarity with GitHub for source code management.
Nice-to-haves
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong sense of responsibility and a bias towards action.
- Ability to self-direct and prioritize work effectively.
- Fast learner and self-starter.
- Experience working collaboratively in an agile environment.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid time off
- Flexible schedule
