Lead, Software Engineer; Retirement Strategies

Lead, Software Engineer (Retirement Strategies) (Finance)

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.

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.

Location:

Newark, NJ Hybrid (minimum 3 days/week in office)

Your Team & Role

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: No
    
    SQL and 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
  • 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 and Dev Sec Ops ;
    Solid grasp of security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital…