Senior Software Engineer

Prudential Financial • Newark, NJ

1d • $104,000 - $171,600

About The Position

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. The individual in this role will design, create, test, and deploy solutions across multiple technology domains and will have the opportunity to influence, differentiate, and guide our business and technology solutions by implementing the robust technical capabilities that will enable Prudential to better serve our customers. Excellent written and oral communication skills are an absolute must.

Requirements

• Must possess an undergraduate degree with a concentration in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience in the development and design of complex applications.
• Understanding of Agile SDLC methodologies is required.
• Deep proficiency in more than one programming language is required.
• Knowledge of Spring Boot framework, Microservices, AWS, Java, SQL, will be required.
• Strong understanding and experience of asynchronous processing technologies like Active Mq, Kafka, AWS SQS.
• Must have experience with service implementation using rest-based standards, experience with developing true microservices highly desirable.
• Must have previous experience building and delivering APIs and platforms for consumption at scale.
• Must understand and have worked with security concepts like authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature, MFA, SSL, etc.
• Must have experience with web service proxies, firewalls, multi-protocol gateways, etc.
• Must know how to build applications for and in the cloud (preferably AWS) and understand the core AWS services and apply best practices regarding security and scalability.
• Understanding of core AWS services, uses, and basic AWS architecture best practices.
• Proficiency writing code for serverless applications such as EC2, Lambda and API Gateway
• Understanding of cloud databases and NoSQL concepts (DynamoDB, Aurora) including caching (ElastiCache)
• Build highly performing & scalable microservices following enterprise guidelines & standards.
• Ability to use a CI/CD pipeline to deploy applications on Cloud (preferably AWS) using GIT lab, Jenkins and cloud formation templates
• Experience with GIT source control & github enterprise
• Experience in using Jira, confluence and Service N\ow.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AWS EKS, SQS, SES, S3 & Redis is a plus.
• Experience with developing large scale, high traffic, auto scalable applications in the cloud highly desired

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with technology, architecture, product management and design teams to drive outcomes with focus on enriched customer experience.
• Foster an iterative/Agile environment.
• Work across teams to produce elegant solutions to challenging engineering and business problems.
• Write original code to deliver end to end solution using innovative approaches to complex design problems.
• Build features, enhancements, bugfixes along with coding and unit testing.
• Conducts troubleshooting and remediation of production problems when needed.
• Support the features in all environments and provide/maintain supporting documentation.
• Remediates defects found in code through the lifecycle of the code.
• Reverse engineers code as needed.

Benefits

• 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.
• Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees