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Lead, Software Engineer (Newark, NJ - Hybrid)

Prudential Financial
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 15 Jul 2025
💰 $206,000/yr($138,500/yr$206,000/yr)

About the role

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

As a Lead Software Engineer in Global Technology, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to improve our financial management 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! In addition to advanced technical expertise and experience, 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.  

This role is based in our office in Newark, NJ. Our organization follows a hybrid work structure where employees can work remotely and from the office, as needed, based on demands of specific tasks or personal work preferences. This position is hybrid and requires your on-site presence on a reoccurring weekly basis at least 3 days per week.

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
  • 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 an applied 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.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

  • 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  
  • Extensive experience in Application Development, Engineering, Analytics, or similar fields.
  • Strong technical skills in:
    • Development, Automation, Infrastructure as Code
    • Java, Python, or similar programming languages
    • Development Frameworks/Libraries like React, Flask, Boto3, pandas, urllib3, Docker
    • Terraform/CloudFormation or similar technologies
    • DynamoDB, Bedrock, Textract, ECS, Lambda functions, S3, RDS
    • Web development technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Node.js)
    • Containerization (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
    • Observability, including metrics, logs, and end-to-end tracing
    • Cloud architecture and implementation (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
    • Serverless-first design patterns
    • ML and Generative AI models
    • Information Security (e.g., Authz, Authn, encryption)
    • APIs, both external and internal (e.g., Kong, Apigee, API Gateway)
    • Modular and reusable code
    • Agile methodology
    • DevOps and CI/CD Tools: Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins
       
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, and perspectives for organizational benefit.
  • Commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
     

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Financial/Insurance industry experience is a plus, not a must

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What we offer 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 $138,500.00 to $206,000.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic locat

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