Team Lead Software Engineer

Northwestern Mutual • Milwaukee, WI

2d

About The Position

As a Team Lead, you'll play a pivotal role in the Wealth & Investment Management Applications & APIs Delivery team. This talented team is accountable for the development and maintenance of state-of-the-art user applications and APIs. These tools empower our Home Office and Field Financial Representative, enabling them to provide unparalleled financial services to our clients. In this role, you will serve as a Team Lead, directly leading and mentoring a team of engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and technical excellence.

Requirements

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 6-8 years of experience in software development and solution architecture.
• Strong expertise in solution architecture, backed by a proven track record of delivering complex, scalable systems.
• Proficiency in modern software development languages and frameworks, including JavaScript (Node.js, React, Next.js), TypeScript, CSS, and Python.
• 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.
• Experience designing and implementing data-driven solutions, with hands-on exposure to modern data platforms such as Data bricks.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, with a focus on PostgreSQL.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to deeply understand business requirements, transforming them into scalable and secure technical 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.
• 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.
• Drive initiatives aimed at enhancing efficiency, quality, and overall team performance. Your keen eye for optimization will shape our future success.
• Own team outcomes, including delivery commitments, code quality, and engineering best practices, while building a high-performing engineering culture.

Benefits

• Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do.
• Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes talented individuals of all backgrounds.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior