Prudential Financial - Newark, NJ
posted about 2 months ago
Full-time - Mid Level
Newark, NJ
Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
About the position
As a Lead Software Engineer on the Individual Life Insurance Technology team at Prudential, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the New Business and Underwriting capabilities. This position involves collaborating with various stakeholders to develop, test, and debug applications that address complex business challenges. You will leverage your technical expertise and problem-solving skills to deliver innovative solutions that improve customer experiences and drive business impact.
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 to understand needs and define feature stories, and with tech leads to define technical design.
- Write unit, integration tests and functional automation, researching problems discovered by quality assurance or product support.
- Provide input and coach team members, embedding learning and innovation in day-to-day activities.
- Work on complex problems requiring evaluation of intangible variables.
- Use programming languages including Python, Java, or JavaScript and frameworks like Springboot and Node.js.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields.
- Ability to coach others with minimal guidance and leverage diverse ideas and perspectives.
- Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
- Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes for sound decision-making.
- Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an ongoing basis through self-initiative.
- Excellent problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Advanced experience with programming languages such as JavaScript and Java, distributed systems, object-oriented programming, and design patterns.
- Experience with architecture design including Event Driven, Domain Driven, and Cloud Native.
Nice-to-haves
- AWS Development
- Architecture Patterns
- Financial/Insurance industry experience is a plus.
Benefits
- Market competitive base salaries with yearly bonus potential.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability insurance.
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and leave of absences, including parental and military leave.
- 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
- Company-funded pension plan.
- Wellness Programs with reimbursement for personal wellbeing needs.
- Work/Life Resources for support on various topics.
