Prudential Financial

Software Engineer

Prudential Financial$82K — $135K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in Computer Science or Engineering or related experience
  • Agile development experience; Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a plus
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
  • Knowledge of business concepts relevant to decision-making
  • Ability to continuously learn new skills and tackle challenges

Responsibilities

  • Build applications following modern coding practices and industry standards
  • Develop efficient, well-documented code adhering to standards
  • Collaborate with product owners and team members to deliver robust solutions
  • Write unit and integration tests, resolve quality issues with effective solutions
  • Identify opportunities for innovation and coach team members
  • Analyze complex problems with in-depth evaluation of multiple factors
  • Use programming languages and frameworks such as Python, Java, React, and Springboot

Benefits

  • Market competitive base salary with yearly bonus potential
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) with company match, company-funded pension plan
  • Wellness programs offering reimbursement for personal wellbeing needs
  • Education benefits for degree and accredited certificate programs
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan at discounted rates
Full Job Description

Job Classification:

Technology - Engineering & Cloud

Your Team & Role
As a Software Engineer in Group Insurance (GI), you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals. 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 applied 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.

The currentwork arrangement for this position is Hybrid and requires your on-site a minimum of 3 days/week in our Newark, NJ location.


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 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 challenges

  • Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills

Applied experience with several of 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

  • 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

  • Experience with agentic developer productivity AI tools (e.g., Claude Code), including understanding how they augment software development workflows.

Preferred qualifications:

  • AWS Development

  • Architecture Patterns

  • Design Thinking

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

You9ll 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, we9ll help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. You9ll be surprised by what this rock-solid organization has in store for you.

#LI-LR1 #LI-Hybrid

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 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.

About Prudential Financial

Prudential Financial is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of investment management, life insurance, and retirement benefits. It focuses on helping individuals and institutional customers to grow and protect their wealth. The company also offers an inclusive work environment where employees can develop to their full potential, and give back to the communities where they live and work. Prudential Financial was founded in 1875 and headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

Prudential Financial Careers

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Learn more about Prudential Financial
Size
88 employees
Market Cap
$36.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$374 million
Founded
1875
5 Year Trend
+3.8%
Revenue
$57 billion
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