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.

Your Team & Role

As an Associate Software Engineer on/in Group Insurance Tech Modernization, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to improve existing client onboarding 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.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• 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 

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• 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 / MEAN / MERN stack
  • Data Store: NoSQL or Relational Data structures; MongoDB BPM tools
  • Data Streaming: SQS, Kinesis

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 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
• Preferred qualifications:
  • AWS Development
  • Architecture Patterns
  • Design Thinking

You’ll Love Working Here Because You Can

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.

What we offer you:

• 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 $1,600 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.

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Note: 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 $67,500.00 to $100,400.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills. Roles may also be eligible for additional compensation and/or benefits. 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. In addition, employees are eligible for standard benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental and retirement.