Prudential Financial-posted 8 days ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Hybrid • Newark, NJ
5,001-10,000 employees

Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability, and efficiency? The Global Technology team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA! When you join our organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock an exciting and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions. Retirement Strategies Technology is at the forefront of modernizing how we deliver retirement security. The team is driving multi-year investments in digital platforms, automation, and advanced data capabilities to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency. By blending human expertise with cutting-edge technology, Retirement Strategies Technology is shaping a future where retirement planning is more accessible, personalized, and secure. As a Lead Software Engineer on the Retirement Strategies Technology team , you will be at the epicenter of our application modernization. You’ll help convert legacy applications into strategic, cutting-edge solutions. You’ll join a cross-functional Agile team—where collaboration is key to delivering robust solutions that drive business impact.

  • Build applications ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards, using modern design patterns and architectural principles; remove technical impediments
  • Develop high quality, well documented and efficient code adhering to all applicable Prudential standards
  • Collaborate with product owners in understanding needs and defining feature stories, tech leads in defining technical design and other team members to understand the system end-to-end and deliver robust solutions that bring about business impact
  • Write unit, integration tests and functional automation, researching problems discovered by quality assurance or product support, developing solutions to address the problems
  • Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input and coach team members and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
  • Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables. Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Java, or JavaScript and React, Springboot, Node.js frameworks
  • Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
  • Ability to coach others with minimal guidance and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization
  • Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
  • Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business
  • Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges
  • Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills
  • Advanced experience and/or expertise with several of the following: Programming Languages: Python, Java or Java Script; working in distributed systems, object oriented programming, design patterns and design methodology; JAVA services using Spring CLI, Maven, Microservice, multi-threading, Concurrency and parallel processing
  • Frameworks: React, Springboot, Node.js
  • Data Store: NoSQL or Relational Data structures; MongoDB
  • BPM tools, Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
  • Data Streaming: SQS, Kinesis
  • Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development; implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) patterns; Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, Kong API gateway
  • Unit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling (functional & non-functional)
  • Automated testing such as RAFT
  • Accessibility awareness
  • Software security skills including secure coding, web application security and DevSecOps; Solid grasp of security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature, JWT), SSL, web service proxies, firewall, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0)
  • Dev Ops Tools & Practices: Branching techniques and usage of GitHub, Bitbucket or Subversion; DevOps, Jenkins, CI/CD
  • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Monitoring and logging techniques
  • AWS Core Services: AWS Services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, KMS, Secrets Manager, SNS, CloudWatch, S3, IAM, Aurora
  • Solid grasp of AWS IaaC Code Development, Batch processing mechanisms in AWS Cloud
  • AWS Development Architecture Patterns
  • Design Thinking
  • Financial/Insurance industry experience is a plus, not a must
  • Awareness of Agentic AI Platforms is a plus
  • Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level
  • Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave
  • 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
  • Company-funded pension plan.
  • Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
  • Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
  • Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.
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