Associate Software Engineer - HR, India

PFI Innovation Centre India is an exciting new innovation center. We’re building a future that helps people live better lives longer – and we’re looking for bold thinkers and team players to help us do it.

Here, you’ll tackle complex challenges, collaborate with brilliant minds across the globe, and grow your career while helping millions achieve financial security.

A PURPOSE DRIVEN COMPANY – 150 YEARS

While the PFI Innovation Centre brand is new to India, you’ll be a part of the Prudential Financial, Inc. family. Founded in Newark, NJ, we serve 50 million customers across more than 50 countries. With $1.334 trillion in assets, we’re a global leader in institutional asset management. The 2nd largest life insurer in the US and the 9th largest institutional global asset manager.

At the PFI Innovation Centre India, you’ll find high-performance culture that’s flexible, collaborative, and grounded in respect. We engage with candor, take calibrated risks, and hold ourselves accountable – always focused on delivering for our customers. It’s the standard we choose every day as we grow, perform, and win as one team. We offer valuable leadership, mentoring and learning opportunities, paired with flexibility and support to help you thrive.

Whether you’re just starting out or ready to take your next step, we’ll help you grow with purpose and do the best work of your career.

What you will do:

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!

What you can expect:

• 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 React, Springboot, and Node.js Frameworks

What you will bring:

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

• 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 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

• 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

What will set you apart?

• AWS Development

• Architecture Patterns

• Design Thinking

• PFI Innovation Centre India welcomes all applicants, even if you don't meet every requirement. If your skills align with the role, we encourage you to apply.

Skills: AWS , Python , Java