Frontend Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

You and Northwestern Mutual. We believe relationships are built on trust. That our lives and our work matter. And we’re much stronger together than we are apart. These beliefs launched our company nearly 160 years ago. Today, they’re just a few of the reasons why people choose to build careers at Northwestern Mutual.

Our business is about helping people secure their financial futures, and that starts with putting people first – our clients, our employees and our field representatives. Northwestern Mutual is known for financial strength. We’re strong, innovative and growing. Come grow with us.

Job Description

At Northwestern Mutual, we believe relationships are built on trust. That our lives and our work matter. These beliefs launched our company nearly 160 years ago. Today, they're just a few of the reasons why people choose to build careers at Northwestern Mutual.

We're strong and growing. In a company with such a long and storied history, this may be the most exciting and important time to be a part of Northwestern Mutual. We're strong, innovative and growing.

We invest in our people. We provide opportunities for employees to grow themselves, their career and in turn, our business.

We care.  We make a positive difference in our communities. Nationally, thousands have benefitted from our support of research and programs to fight childhood cancer. Each year, our Foundation, employees and financial representatives donate time, talent and financial support to causes they're passionate about.

 

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.

 

What's the role?

You’re the right fit if you’re the best and there’s not a problem you can’t solve. We need an experienced engineer who is passionate about writing client side code.

 

You will be working on the UI team building applications that are deployed to the cloud. You’ll work very closely with our engineering group working on platform and api’s on the backend. These apps support the future development of the client and planner experiences for Northwestern Mutual.  This UI team is located in Milwaukee but has the opportunity to travel to the New York office (Learnvest) as needed.

Your general milestones are as follows:

 

  • Within the first month – while working with other frontend engineers on the teams, be able to jump head-first into modifying apps and ask the appropriate questions / do the appropriate research to identify the general functions and behaviors of the applications you’re working on.

 

  • Within three months – be able to pick up and work on any existing app and create new apps from scratch using the stack defined, contribute directly to technical discussions that affect the current and future state of the applications and technical stack used.  Essentially, contributing to the team at your full capacity.

 

Competencies

 

  • Fast learner and self-starter.  The people you will work with are incredibly kind and extremely willing to share knowledge and a helping hand, but you have to be willing to take ownership of the outlined goals and make things happen.
  • Ability to take initiative and work with minimal supervision, yet actively interact with other team members in person or over the Internet (chat, videoconference, email).
  • Work collaboratively on creative solutions with engineers, product managers, and designers.
  • Bring new ideas and new ways of solving problems to the team.

 

Skills

  • Javascript ES6
  • React and Redux
  • Node and Express
  • Familiarity with Docker and containerization is a plus
  • Good understanding of GIT and source code management
  • Familarity with cloud providers like AWS and Azure is a plus

 

 

Bring Your Best! What this role needs:

Bachelor's degree or Associate's degree and 2 to 5 years professional experience

 

 

 

Req ID: 7662
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Education Experience: Associates Required
Employment Experience: 3-5 years
Licenses/Certifications: None
FLSA Status: Exempt
Posting Date: 09/07/2016

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