
Lead Software Engineer
Prudential Financial
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Newark • Maine • New Jersey • United States
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Salary
💰 $133,600 - $220,400 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- 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.
- Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Java, or JavaScript and React, Springboot, Node.js 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 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
- - Frameworks: React, Springboot, Node.js, such as Full / MEAN / MERN stack
- - Data Store: NoSQL and Relational Databases; Postgres and MongoDB or DynamoDB
- - Data Streaming: SQS, Kinesis
- - Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development; 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
Benefits
- 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 including up to $1,600 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
- Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs
- 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
- Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonJavaJavaScriptReactSpringbootNode.jsTest-Driven Development (TDD)NoSQLRelational DatabasesMicroservices
Soft Skills
problem solvingcommunicationcollaborationcoachinglearninginnovationanalysisadaptabilitycritical thinkingteamwork