Lead, Software Engineer - Python Developer

$135,100 - $201,000/Yr

Prudential Financial - Newark, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Newark, NJ

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About the position

As a Lead Software Engineer - Python Developer at Prudential, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the Network product by collaborating with various stakeholders to develop and implement innovative solutions. This position requires advanced technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and a commitment to continuous learning, all while adhering to industry standards and best practices in software development.

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.
• 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 Python, and JavaScript frameworks.

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 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 Script, Perl; working in distributed systems, object-oriented programming, design patterns and design methodology; Microservice, multi-threading, Concurrency and parallel processing.
• Frameworks: Including but not limited to Flask, FastAPI, React
• Data Storage: Postgres, MySQL, Parquet, MongoDB, and Relational Data structure tools.
• Data Streaming: SQS, Kinesis, Kafka, and SNS
• 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 DevSecOps; 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 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.

Nice-to-haves

• AWS Development
• Architecture Patterns
• Design Thinking
• Financial/Insurance industry experience is a plus, not a must.

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Discretionary annual incentive program