Entry Level Mern Stack Developer Jobs in New York, NY

Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility,scalabilityand 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

As aLeadSoftware Engineer in Group Insurance,you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers,engineersand delivery professionals toimprovepre-sales platform. You willcode,testand debug new and existing applications as you implement capabilities to solvesophisticatedbusiness problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight ourcustomers!In addition toadvancedtechnical expertise and experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication andteamworkskills, along with agile ways of working, strong businessinsight, an inclusive leadershipattitudeand a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

This role is based in our office in Newark, NJ. Our organization follows a hybrid work structure whereemployees can work remotely and from the office, as needed, based on demands of specific tasks or personal work preferences. This position is hybrid and requires your on-site presence on a reoccurring weekly basis at least 3 days per week.

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;remove technicalimpediments

• 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 astrongunderstandingof relevant and emerging technologies,provideinputand coachteam membersand embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day

• Work oncomplex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.

• Useprogramminglanguages including but not limited toJava, or JavaScript and React,Springboot, Node.jsframeworks

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields

• Ability to coach others with minimal guidanceandeffectively leverage diverse ideas,experiences,thoughtsand 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 andtacklingchallenges

• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills

Advancedexperience and/or expertisewithseveral ofthe following:

• Programming Languages: Python, Java or Java Script; working in distributed systems,object orientedprogramming, 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;Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL

• Unit, interface and end user testingconcepts and tooling (functional & non-functional)

• 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, ECS, S3, Lambda

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Development

• Architecture Patterns, DDD, Data Models

• Design Thinking

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

• Salesforce platform preferred but not a must

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.