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 & RolePrudential is on a technology modernization journey, and APIs are at the heart of it. We are building a team to enable an API transformation across the enterprise. A new API gateway is being built, enhancements to our API portal strategy are underway, and the evangelization and education of developers for an API-centric/design first environment has begun.
As a Developer for the API COE team within the CTO, you will help drive the critical technology strategy for API Management at Prudential. Specifically, you will contribute hands-on to deliver on an API COE engineering and tooling for our enterprise-usable API transformation program. You will partner with tech leads, and other team members to build applications that enhance our delivery experience. This includes Apps, SDKs, CLIs, AI Agent Skills.
Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day- Contribute to the delivery of API platform capabilities by working closely with Tech Leads, Lead and Senior developers.
- Enhance API transformation tasks, including updates to API specifications, security configurations, and operational standards under established guidelines.
- Build and enhance internal developer experience (DX) tools-such as SDK components, CLI utilities, and automation scripts-to support API platform adoption.
- Collaborate with application development teams to apply API best practices, review API specifications, and assist with migrations to the new enterprise API platform.
- Apply Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and DevOps practices to deliver incremental improvements to pipelines, tooling, and platform components.
- Help identify opportunities to streamline API development workflows, tooling, and platform operations.
- Participate in monitoring, troubleshooting, and supporting production-related activities for API platform services as needed.
The Skills & Expertise You Bring - Hands-on experience developing software using modern languages such as Java, Python, Node.js, or Go, used in conjunction with DevOps.
- Working understanding of REST API design, specification-first development.
- Familiarity with API architectures-including REST, and exposure to GraphQL, gRPC, or asynchronous APIs is a plus.
- Knowledge in working on cloud environments and container orchestration (EKS, ECS, or similar).
- Understanding of API security fundamentals-especially OAuth2, scopes, policies, and token flows.
- Familiarity with observability concepts such as metrics, logging, and tracing.
- Experience with software quality assurance.
- Ability to support operational tasks, collaborate effectively in cross-functional teams, and continuously improve skills through learning and experimentation.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
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: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 $82,000.00 to $135,300.00. 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 Programsincluding 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.
Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status, medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law.
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