Technical Lead, Software Development, Software Engineer

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; 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.

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, Java Script; C#, working in distributed systems, object oriented programming, design patterns and design methodology; JAVA services using Spring, Maven, Microservices, multi-threading, Concurrency and parallel processing
• Frameworks:
  React, Springboot, Node.js, Flask, Django
• Data Store:
  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 and Dev Sec Ops ;
  Solid grasp of security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature, JWT), SSL, web service proxies, firewall, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0)
• Dev Ops Tools & Practices:
  Branching techniques and usage of Git Hub, Bitbucket or Subversion;
  Dev Ops, Jenkins
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC):
  Monitoring and logging techniques
• AWS Core Services across compute, storage, DB, IAM and analytics

• Strong experience with Domain Driven Development (DDD)
• Design and critical Thinking
• Financial/Insurance industry experience is a must, not a plus
• People Leadership Experience is a must, not a plus
• Application management/ownership experience is a must, not a plus
• Experience with agentic frameworks and AI driven development tools is a major plus [Claude Code, Git Hub Copilot etc]