Associate Software Engineer

About the Role

As an Associate Software Engineer in Global Technology and Operations, you will report to the Lead, Tech Lead (Full Stack) and partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers, and delivery professionals to improve Financial Accounting Platforms. You will code, test, and debug new and existing applications as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, and deploy innovative products, services, and experiences to delight our customers.

Key Responsibilities

• 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, or JavaScript and frameworks like React, Springboot, and Node.js.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• 0–2 years of experience working with AWS, Python, and Java in Finance technology.
• Exposure to knowledge of agentic AI concepts and frameworks, with the ability to design, guide, and implement AI-driven solutions that leverage autonomous agents to enhance business and technology outcomes.
• 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 needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business.
• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an ongoing basis through self-initiative and tackling 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 Stack.
• Data Store: NoSQL or Relational Data structures.
• Knowledge/understanding of the following:
• Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development; implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA) patterns; Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, JSON, XML, JDBC, SQL.
• 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; Exposure to security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature, JWT), SSL, web service proxies, firewall, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0).
• DevOps 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.

What will set you apart?

• AWS Development
• Architecture Patterns
• Design Thinking