Senior Infrastructure Developer - API Center Enablement

Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability, and efficiency? The Global Technology team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA! When you join our organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock an exciting and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.

Prudential is on a technology modernization journey, and APIs are at the heart of it. We are building a team to enable an API transformation across the enterprise. A new API gateway is being built, enhancements to our API portal strategy are underway, and the evangelization and education of developers for an API‑centric/design first environment has begun.

As a Senior Developer for the API COE team within the CTO, you will help drive the critical technology strategy for API Management cifically, you will contribute hands‑on to deliver on an API governance, standardization, and enterprise‑usable API transformation program. You will partner with product owners, tech leads, and, most importantly, business application development teams to enable them on the Enterprise API platform.

You will enable API best practices, engineer automated pipelines for building APIs while creating reusable, reliable, consistent, and scalable APIs for consumption across and outside of Prudential.

Automate, and execute on API transformation inclusive of security, specification, and operability standards

Build and run DX‑first applications that support the execution of our strategy, such as SDKs, CLIs, AI Agent skills.

Work with application development teams to enable the API transformation; provide coaching on API best practices, review use cases, and assist with the migration to the new API platform

Lead with an IaC and Dev Ops mindset, promoting frequent, small changes.

Identify opportunities for simplification in API tooling, development, and platform management processes.

Proven experience building enterprise‑grade APIs using modern languages such as Java, Python, Node.js, or Go, supported by Dev Ops and Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible).

Broad API architecture knowledge across REST, Graph

QL, gRPC, Web Sockets, and Async

API.

Hands‑on experience with API management platforms (e.g., Kong, Apigee, Mule Soft, Layer7).

Skilled with API design tools such as Swagger Hub and Stoplight.

Cloud and container orchestration expertise (EKS, ECS, or similar).

Deep understanding of API authentication and authorization patterns, especially OAuth
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Solid grasp of observability practices (metrics, logging, tracing).

Proficiency in automated testing frameworks across unit, regression, contract, performance, and stress testing.

Experience supporting production operations and incident response for high‑volume global platforms.

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Join a team and culture where your voice matters; where every day, your work transforms our experiences to make lives better. As you put your skills to use, we’ll help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. You’ll be surprised by what this rock‑solid organization has in store for you.

Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $ to $. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.

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.

401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).

Company‑funded pension plan.

Wellness…