Lead, Software Engineer - PGIM Technology (Hybrid - Newark, NJ)

Lead Software Engineer

As a Lead Software Engineer within PGIM Product Technology, you will play a key role in designing and delivering modern, intuitive, and high‑performance user interfaces, with a strong emphasis on ReactJS‑based front‑end development. You will work in close partnership with product owners, designers, technical leads, engineers, and delivery professionals to create engaging digital experiences that meet complex business needs.

In this role, you will take ownership of building scalable, reusable UI components and front‑end architectures, leveraging ReactJS, modern JavaScript/TypeScript patterns, and supporting frameworks and libraries. You will collaborate across the stack, integrating with .NET, Python, and SQL/NoSQL‑based services, while maintaining a strong focus on front‑end quality, performance, accessibility, and usability.

You will partner with stakeholders to translate business and user requirements into well‑designed UI solutions, and contribute to architectural decisions and front‑end technology standards, including design systems, component libraries, and best practices. You will code, test, and debug new and existing applications to deliver reliable, maintainable, and visually consistent user experiences.

Beyond technical expertise, you bring strong problem‑solving, communication, and collaboration skills. You embrace agile ways of working, bring a user‑centric mindset to solution design, and demonstrate an inclusive, team‑oriented leadership approach. A commitment to continuous learning—particularly in evolving front‑end technologies and UI engineering practices—is essential as you help raise the bar for engineering excellence.

This role is based in our office in Newark, NJ. Our organization follows a hybrid work structure where employees 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 3 days per week.

What You Can Expect

• Lead the design and implementation of modern, scalable UI architectures using React, TypeScript, and contemporary front‑end patterns, ensuring responsive, accessible, and high‑performance user experiences.
• Design, build, and maintain full‑stack application solutions, collaborating across React‑based front ends,.NET backend services, and SQL/NoSQL data stores to deliver cohesive, end‑to‑end functionality.
• Translate complex business and user requirements into well‑designed technical solutions, partnering closely with product owners, UX designers, architects, and stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Establish and evolve application architecture standards, including UI component design, state management strategies, API integration patterns, and data access approaches that enable scalability and long‑term maintainability.
• Work closely with Infrastructure and DevOps teams to define and extend CI/CD pipelines, supporting automated builds, testing, deployments, and environment consistency across the organization.
• Ensure data integrity, performance, and reliability across application data layers by designing effective schemas, queries, and data access patterns using relational and NoSQL databases.
• Architect and integrate front‑end solutions with backend and platform services, ensuring secure, efficient API consumption and seamless user interactions.
• Lead a small engineering team, providing technical direction, hands‑on guidance, code reviews, and mentorship to elevate engineering quality and team effectiveness.
• Drive adoption of best practices and standards across UI development, backend services, and data access, with a strong focus on security, compliance, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Serve as a subject‑matter expert for front‑end and application development, coaching engineers on React best practices, modern JavaScript/TypeScript patterns, testing strategies, and overall application design.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design guidelines, coding standards, and operational playbooks for internal teams and stakeholders.
• Collaborate across business and technology partners, including designers, analysts, engineers, and client stakeholders, to deliver user‑centric, high‑quality applications aligned with enterprise goals.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt modern tools, frameworks, and patterns that improve developer productivity, application performance, observability, and operational excellence, while sharing knowledge and driving consistency across teams.

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on designing and delivering enterprise‑scale web applications, including recent hands‑on leadership in React‑based front‑end development.
• Deep expertise in modern UI development, including React, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS, and contemporary front‑end frameworks, patterns, and tooling for building reusable, scalable, and accessible user interfaces.
• Familiarity with React.js, including server-side rendering (SSR) concepts (e.g., Next.js, nodejs).
• Experience developing or supporting SSR-based React applications integrated with backend services.
• Experience building UI using Microsoft Power pages.
• Strong experience designing and building backend services using .NET, including API design, integration patterns, security, and performance optimization.
• Solid experience working with relational and NoSQL databases, with the ability to design efficient data models, queries, and integration patterns to support high‑performance applications.
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Azure, supporting cloud‑native application development, deployments, integrations, and production operations (e.g., App Services, Functions, Azure SQL, Storage, identity, monitoring, and related services).
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices, including automated builds, testing, and deployments using tools such as GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Strong architectural skills, with the ability to define and evolve front‑end and full‑stack application standards, including UI component design, API interaction patterns, state management, and application layering.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor engineering teams, providing technical guidance, conducting design and code reviews, and driving consistent engineering practices across initiatives.
• Experience delivering multiple concurrent projects in a fast‑paced environment, balancing hands‑on development with leadership responsibilities while meeting timelines and quality expectations.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to clearly convey technical concepts and trade‑offs to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Financial Services industry experience—particularly within Asset Management, institutional funds, or mutual funds—is preferred.
• Microsoft or cloud‑related certifications (such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Developer Associate, or Azure Administrator Associate) are preferred but not required.

*PGIM welcomes all applicants, even if you don't meet every requirement. If your skills align with the role, we encourage you to apply.

Note: Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The annual base salary range for this role is from $145,000 to $200,000. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.

What We Offer You

• 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 Programs including 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 Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week.

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