Associate Software Engineer (Information Technology)

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 in the Global Risk and Compliance (GRC) organization, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers, and delivery professionals to improve on various GRC applications.  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 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, JavaScript and 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  

• Knowledge of agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)

• 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 stac

  • Exposure to the Salesforce Lightning platform is a plus

• 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)

  • Software security skills including secure coding, web application security and DevSecOps; 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

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.

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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 $69,200.00 to $103,000.00. 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 Programs 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.  

• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.  

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service. 

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. To find out more about our Total Rewards package, visit Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.