Lead, Software Engineer - Full Stack

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 

As a Lead Software Engineer in Group Insurance, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to improve pre-sales platform.  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 advanced technical expertise and 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.  

This role is based in our office in Newark, NJ. Our organization follows a hybrid work structure where employees can work remotely and from the office, as needed, based on demands of specific tasks or personal work preferences. This position is hybrid and requires your on-site presence on a reoccurring weekly basis at least 3 days per week. 

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.  

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

The Skills & Expertise You Bring  

• 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, such as Full / MEAN / MERN stack 

• Data Store: NoSQL or Relational Data structures; MongoDB BPM tools 

• Data Streaming: SQS, Kinesis 

• Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development; Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL 

• Unit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling (functional & non-functional) 

• Dev Ops Tools & Practices: Branching techniques and usage of GitHub, Bitbucket or Subversion; DevOps, Jenkins 

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Monitoring and logging techniques 

• AWS Core Services: AWS Services such as CloudWatch, Code-Deploy, ECS, S3, Lambda 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• AWS Development 

• Architecture Patterns, DDD, Data Models 

• Design Thinking 

• Financial/Insurance industry experience is a plus, not a must 

• Salesforce platform preferred but not a must 

You’ll Love Working Here Because You Can 

Join a team and culture where your voice matters; where every day, your work transforms our experiences to make lives better. As you put your skills to use, we’ll help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. You’ll be surprised by what this rock-solid organization has in store for you.