Lead Software Engineer - API Development

November 1

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Prudential Financial

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Financial Services • Investment Management • Life Insurance • Retirement Benefits • Group Benefits

10,000+ employees

Founded 1875

💸 Finance

🏠 Real Estate

Description

• 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.

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 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; Data Store: NoSQL or Relational Data structures; MongoDB BPM tools; Data Streaming: SQS, Kinesis; API: Consumption & Development; implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) patterns; Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL; API Management systems like Apigee, as well as REST API design and implementation; Container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes; Familiarity with Client and AppDynamics Unit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling (functional & non-functional); 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.

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. • Retirement plans: 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%). • Company-funded pension plan. • Wellness Programs to help you achieve your wellbeing goals, including up to $1,000 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs. • Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development. • Tuition Assistance to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree, many accredited certificate programs, and industry designations. • Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.