Senior Full-Stack Kafka Engineer

Posted:
7/25/2024, 9:35:29 AM

Location(s):
Wisconsin, United States ⋅ West Bend, Wisconsin, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

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

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.The Business Event Hub Software Engineering team at Northwestern Mutual is responsible for providing an extraordinary digital experience to our product delivery teams to provide efficient delivery processes that enables Northwestern Mutual to give a premier experience to our clients. We help product delivery teams go from idea to digital solution faster by providing a simplified and consolidated ecosystem to deliver in.Our systems provide the foundation for other applications to be delivered to the enterprise. This assignment will be on a team that develops a platform that uses event-driven architecture and tooling to expose data to other product teams to accelerate the feedback and decision-making cycle. You’ll be part of a team that plays a crucial role in ensuring this great company continues to do great things for its customers.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
  • Demonstrates technical leadership to the team and multiplies their talent across the team through positive mentorship
  • Establishes, aggregates, and shares team standards and practices within department
  • Proficiency in DevOps and Agile principles
  • Applies working relationships across teams within their division
  • Assesses and provides solutions to system-wide architectural problems
  • Research and develop proof of concepts to bring new and innovated solutions to the platform
  • Provide support for the existing platform with strong investigative and debugging skills
  • Implement new solutions that utilize event-driven approaches to move data in real-time
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
  • 4-5 years professional experience required
  • 3-5+ years of experience working with modern engineering tools, languages and practices
  • Experience developing micro-services with Java or Javascript (Java preferred)
  • Demonstrated critical thinking, ownership mentality and continuous learning
  • Experience developing solutions using agile methods
  • Mentor for the team and department
  • Advanced skills in one or more technical platforms
  • Capable of communicating between product, engineering, and the business
  • Handles own time to meet objectives
  • Problem-solver, critical thinker, and Collaborative with strong communication skills
  • Ability to perform peer reviews on code and design
  • Solid understanding of design patterns and scalable architecture including distributed systems design and fault-tolerant systems
  • Moderate understanding of an event driven system like Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis or another similar system

Our Benefits:

  •  Collaborative team first environment
  •  We offer highly competitive compensation, including annual bonus opportunities
  •  Medical/Dental/Vision plans, 401(k), pension program
  •  We provide tuition reimbursement, commuter plans, and paid time off
  •  We provide Professional Training Opportunities
  •  We offer an excellent Work/Life Balance
  •  Hackathons/Dedication to Innovation

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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Compensation Range:

Pay Range - Start:

$100,030.00

Pay Range - End:

$185,770.00

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 click 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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Northwestern Mutual

Website: https://www.northwesternmutual.com/

Headquarter Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1857

IPO Status: Private

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