Prudential Financial - Newark, NJ
posted about 2 months ago
Full-time - Mid Level
Newark, NJ
Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
About the position
The Lead Software Engineer position at Prudential involves partnering with various stakeholders to enhance the New Business and Underwriting capabilities of Individual Life Insurance Technology. The role focuses on coding, testing, and debugging applications while implementing innovative solutions to complex business problems. The ideal candidate will possess advanced technical skills, strong problem-solving abilities, and a collaborative mindset, contributing to the organization's digital transformation efforts.
Responsibilities
- Build applications ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards, using modern design patterns and architectural principles.
- 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.
- Provide input and coach team members, embedding learning and innovation in the day-to-day.
- Work on complex problems requiring evaluation of intangible variables.
Requirements
- 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.
- Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
- Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business.
- Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an ongoing basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges.
- Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills.
- Advanced experience with programming languages such as JavaScript and Java, distributed systems, object-oriented programming, design patterns, and design methodology.
Nice-to-haves
- AWS Development
- Architecture Patterns
- Financial/Insurance industry experience is a plus, not a must.
Benefits
- Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave
- 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%)
- Company-funded pension plan
- Wellness Programs to help achieve wellbeing goals, including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs
- Work/Life Resources to support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education
