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 in the Network Engineering team at Prudential, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the overall Network product by collaborating with various stakeholders. Your responsibilities will include coding, testing, and debugging applications to address complex business challenges while adhering to industry standards and best practices. This position emphasizes innovation, teamwork, and continuous learning, making it an exciting opportunity to contribute to digital transformation within a leading financial services institution.

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.
• 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.
• 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 and/or expertise with programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, and Perl; working in distributed systems; object-oriented programming; design patterns; Microservice; multi-threading; Concurrency and parallel processing.

Nice-to-haves

• AWS Development Architecture Patterns
• Design Thinking
• Financial/Insurance industry experience

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Retirement benefits