Software Engineer, Full Stack Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software

Job Description

The Software Engineer at Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in Franklin, Wisconsin will support critical applications that enable life insurance application processing and contract generation. Dig deep into technology and collaborate with product managers, engineers, and designers to enhance and modernize top‑tier technical applications. Apply understanding of software lifecycle and design patterns to understand technical features being built. Participate in weekly refinement meetings, use development skills for impact analysis, debugging, compiling, merging, and unit testing.

Practice Agile methodologies to implement technical application requirements. Understand business requirements for specific technical projects, focus on technologies to provide efficient solutions, collaborate with an engineering team, monitor live systems, fix bugs, write new features, maintain documentation, participate in planning sessions, and mentor junior engineers. Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to brainstorm functional requirements and difficult defect resolutions. Analyze technical solutions and provide estimates for feature implementation.

Explain technical solutions to both technical and non‑technical teams, apply experience in architecting design solutions, and develop code for new features such as Single Front Door and CCR, new life insurance products, and mainframe REST services for modernization projects. Work with engineering leaders to improve CI/CD for mainframe, re‑write code to enable better unit testing, and apply engineering best practices across the software lifecycle using PL/1 CICS, DB2, JCL, IMS DB, VSAM, COBOL, MQ Series, Host Scope.

Telecommuting permitted 2 days per week. Salary $119,627–$175,760 per year.

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related field and 5 years of experience as a software engineer or in a related occupation.
• At least 5 years of experience with each of the following: DB2, JCL, COBOL, PL/1, CICS, RDBMS, VSAM, MQ Series, and Host Scope; analyzing, designing, developing, deploying, and supporting software solutions and infrastructure implementations; ticketing systems including Service Now, TFS, Cherwell, Remedy;
  Jira for sprint events, dashboard creation, and defect logging and tracking; following Agile scrum methodologies for software development lifecycle; contributing in scrum events including daily standup, backlog grooming, sprint planning, retrospective, and demos.
• Three years of experience with Change Man source control and CI/CD practices.

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

Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership, and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.