Software Engineer - PFI Innovation Centre 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 a Software Engineer on the TARDIS Team, you will report to the Lead, Tech Lead (Actuarial Technologies) and will be responsible for developing and supporting Prudential's strategic financial, actuarial, risk, and investment modeling platforms. A key focus of this role is building and maintaining DevOps pipelines, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), monitoring, and operational tooling to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable platform operations.

You will design, develop, test, deploy, and support applications, APIs, data pipelines, and automation solutions while managing market data, reference data, and data validation processes that support critical business functions. Responsibilities include troubleshooting production issues, performing root cause analysis, implementing data quality controls, optimizing system performance, and driving continuous improvement across the platform.

You will collaborate with business partners, quantitative analysts, model developers, architects, and engineering teams to deliver innovative solutions that solve complex business problems. Success in this role requires strong software engineering, cloud, DevOps, and data engineering skills, combined with excellent problem-solving abilities, communication skills, Agile ways of working, and a passion for continuous learning and operational excellence.

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 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 understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, begin to identify opportunities to provide feedback to the team, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
• Work on problems of diverse scope in which analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors
• Use programming languages including but not limited to AWS, Python, Github Actions, Jenkins and other DevOps tools, 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
• 3+ years experience in DevOps Engineering and in-depth expertise in building and maintaining AWS Infrastructure using cloud formation templates
• Demonstrated 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:

o Programming Languages: AWS, Python, Github Actions, Jenkins and other DevOps tools, 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

o Frameworks: React, Springboot, Node.js, such as Full / MEAN / MERN stack

o Data Store: NoSQL or Relational Data structures; MongoDB BPM tools

o Data Streaming: SQS, Kinesis

• Knowledge/understanding of the following:

o Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development; implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA) patterns; Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL

o Unit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling (functional & non-functional)

o Automated testing

o Accessibility awareness

o 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)

o DevOps Tools & Practices: Branching techniques and usage of GitHub, Bitbucket or Subversion; DevOps, Jenkins

o Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Monitoring and logging techniques

o AWS Core Services: AWS Services such as CloudWatch, Code-Deploy

What will set you apart?

• AWS Development
• Architecture Patterns
• Design Thinking
• Financial / Insurance industry knowledge is a plus
• 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 , DevOps , Python