Associate Software Engineer

Job Classification

Technology - Engineering & Cloud

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.

As an Associate Software Engineer in Global Technology and Operations you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to improve Financial Accounting Platforms. You will code, test and debug new and existing applications as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers! You will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

Newark, NJ hybrid (in office 3 days/week)

• Build applications ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards, using modern design patterns and architectural principles; with guidance, actively code and execute against the roadmap
• 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
• Continue to advance understanding of relevant and emerging technologies with learning and innovation embedded in the day-to-day
• Work on problems of moderate scope in which analysis of situation or data requires a review of identifiable factors
• Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Java, or JavaScript and React, Springboot, Node.js Frameworks

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
• 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 on challenges
• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills
• Experience with 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 Stack
• Data Store:
  No
  
  SQL or Relational Data structures
• Knowledge/understanding of the following:
• 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 Dev Sec Ops ;
  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 Git Hub, Bitbucket or Subversion;
  Dev Ops, Jenkins
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC):
  Monitoring and logging techniques
• AWS Core Services: AWS Services…