Senior Software Engineer

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Job Classification:
Technology - Engineering & Cloud

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Retirement Strategies Business Unit, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to improve advisor and customer experience. You will code, test and debug new and existing applications as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to applied experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

• Hybrid – 3 days in office based in Newark, NJ

• Build applications ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards, using modern design patterns and architectural principles; 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 applied understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, begin to identify opportunities to provide input to the team and coach others, and embed learning and innovation in the day‑to‑day
• Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an in‑depth evaluation of various factors
• Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Java, or JavaScript and React, Springboot, Node.js frameworks
• Focus primarily on Java‑based microservices development using Spring Boot, ensuring scalability and performance in distributed systems

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
• 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
• Applied experience with several of the following (4+ years):
• Programming
  
  Languages:
  
  Strong expertise in Java services using Spring Boot (including Spring CLI, Maven, Microservices, multi‑threading, concurrency and parallel processing);
  JavaScript; working in distributed systems, object‑oriented programming, design patterns and design methodology
• Frameworks:
  Spring Boot (must‑have), React, Node.js, such as Full / MEAN / MERN stack
• Data Store:
  Mongo
  
  DB BPM tools;
  No
  
  SQL or Relational Data structures
• Data Streaming: SQS, Kinesis
• Application Programming Interfaces (API):
  Consumption & Development; implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) patterns;
  Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL
• Unit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling (functional & non‑functional)
• Automated testing
• Accessibility awareness
• Software security skills including secure coding, web application security…