Senior Software Engineer (Retirement Strategies)

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. 

Retirement Strategies Technology is at the forefront of modernizing how we deliver retirement security. The team is driving multi-year investments in digital platforms, automation, and advanced data capabilities to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency.  By blending human expertise with cutting-edge technology, Retirement Strategies Technology is shaping a future where retirement planning is more accessible, personalized, and secure. 

Your Team & Role 

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Retirement Strategies Technology team, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to modernize our platforms.  In addition to an applied technical understanding and knowledge, 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. 

We are hiring multiple Senior Software Engineers across several focus areas including Front-End, Back-End Development, Full Stack Engineering, Data Engineering, and Data/Cloud/API Engineering. These roles are based at our Newark, NJ corporate headquarters with a hybrid work arrangement requiring a minimum of three days per week onsite. 

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; actively code 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, developing solutions to address the problems  ��

• Bring an applied understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, begin to identify opportunities to provide input to the team and coach others, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day   

• Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various 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’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience 

• Typically, 4+ years of experience in software engineering 

• Demonstrated emerging leadership capabilities, including initiating and driving projects with moderate g