Senior Software Engineer

Prudential Financial • Newark, NJ

2d • $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. Your Team & Role Prudential is seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to architect, build, and optimize a large-scale, Python-based actuarial annuities projection and valuation model. You’ll join a uniquely collaborative team blending actuarial and engineering expertise, working at the intersection of advanced financial modeling, software design, and operational excellence to deliver robust, production-ready solutions for annuity products. In this role, you’ll partner with actuaries, quantitative analysts, and DevOps engineers to ensure our platform is scalable and innovative. Your work will have a direct impact on Prudential’s business outcomes as we advance the future of actuarial technology. You’ll join a high-impact team shaping the future of Prudential’s actuarial modeling and valuation technology.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or related field
• 3-5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Advanced programming skills in Python and/or PyTorch (with emphasis on tensor operations)
• Experience developing and maintaining large, monolithic applications—ideally in financial modeling, valuation, or actuarial systems
• Deep understanding of how source code maps to GPU and CPU architectures
• Proficient with CI/CD pipelines, deployment best practices, and hands-on DevOps engineering
• Hands-on experience with Docker, AWS, Amazon RedShift, GitHub, and PostgreSQL
• Back-end engineering expertise, with experience on front-end
• Strategic thinker and independent problem solver—comfortable with ambiguity and high-stakes problem solving
• Proven ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to non-technical audiences and stakeholders
• Detail-oriented with a commitment to accuracy and quality

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience with actuarial or financial modeling, particularly annuities valuation and forecasting
• Demonstrated experience mentoring or developing junior engineers
• Familiarity with the fintech or insurtech sector
• Experience with high-level programming languages such as C++ or Java
• Strong linear algebra fundamentals for matrix or tensor calculations

Responsibilities

• Build applications ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards, using modern design patterns and architectural principles; with guidance, actively code against the roadmap
• 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 an understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, begin to identify opportunities to provide feedback to the team, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day

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.

What This Job Offers

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