Software Engineer; Retirement Strategies

Position: Software Engineer (Retirement Strategies)

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

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.

Your Team & Role

As a Software Engineer on the Retirement Strategies Technology team, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to modernize our platforms. In addition to an applied technical understanding and knowledge, 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.

We are hiring multiple Software Engineers across several focus areas including Front‑End Development, Back‑End Development, Full Stack Engineering, Data Engineering, and Data/Cloud/API Engineering. These roles are based at our Newark, NJ corporate headquarters with a hybrid work arrangement requiring a minimum of three days per week onsite.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• 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
• Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Java, or JavaScript and React, Springboot, Node.js frameworks

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Typically, 1+ years of experience in software engineering
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and Test‑Driven Development (TDD)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively represent the team and engage with cross‑functional stakeholders
• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an ongoing basis through self‑initiative and tackling challenges
• Experience with AWS services and Dev Ops practices
• Solid understanding of software security principles and secure coding practices

Technical Focus Areas Front‑End Development

• UI/UX design principles, CIAM experience
• JavaScript, Type Script, Python, React, Node, Angular
• REST API development and Dev Ops
• Experience with both React and Angular; transitioning from Angular to React is a plus
• Databases:
  Dynamo
  
  DB, Document
  
  DB, DB2, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift

Back‑End Development

• API management and security
• Java, JavaScript, Python, Node, Spring Boot, Spring Batch
• REST API development and Dev Ops
• Databases:
  Dynamo
  
  DB, Document
  
  DB, DB2, Oracle, Postgres, Redshift

Full Stack Engineering

• Strong breadth across both front‑end and back‑end technologies
• Java,…