6 days ago
Newark, NJ, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$145k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, accessible, responsive, and high-performance UI architectures using React, TypeScript, and modern front-end patterns.
- Build and maintain full-stack applications integrating React front ends with .NET backend services and SQL/NoSQL data stores.
- Translate business and user requirements into technical solutions in partnership with product owners, UX designers, architects, and stakeholders.
- Establish application architecture standards covering UI components, state management, API integration, data access, and application layering.
- Collaborate with Infrastructure and DevOps teams on CI/CD pipelines, automated builds, testing, deployments, and environment consistency.
- Design data models, schemas, queries, and data access patterns that support data integrity, performance, and reliability.
- Lead a small engineering team through technical direction, hands-on guidance, code reviews, and mentorship.
- Drive best practices in UI development, backend services, security, compliance, performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Serve as a subject-matter expert and coach engineers on React, JavaScript/TypeScript, testing, and application design.
- Create technical documentation including architecture diagrams, design guidelines, coding standards, and operational playbooks.
- Collaborate with business and technology partners to deliver user-centered applications aligned with enterprise goals.
- Evaluate and adopt tools, frameworks, and patterns that improve developer productivity, application performance, observability, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on enterprise-scale web applications, including recent hands-on leadership in React-based front-end development.
- Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS, and modern front-end frameworks, patterns, and tooling.
- Experience with React.js server-side rendering concepts and SSR-based React applications, including technologies such as Next.js and Node.js.
- Experience building user interfaces with Microsoft Power Pages.
- Strong experience designing and building .NET backend services, including API design, integration, security, and performance optimization.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including data modeling, queries, and integration patterns.
- Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Azure for cloud-native development, deployments, integrations, and production operations.
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices using tools such as GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
- Strong application architecture skills covering UI components, API interactions, state management, and application layering.
- Proven ability to lead and mentor engineering teams, conduct design and code reviews, and drive consistent engineering practices.
- Experience delivering multiple concurrent projects while balancing hands-on development and leadership responsibilities.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Financial services experience, particularly in asset management, institutional funds, or mutual funds, is preferred.
- Microsoft or cloud certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Developer Associate, or Azure Administrator Associate are preferred.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $145,000 to $200,000.
- Yearly bonus potential and market-competitive base salary.
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off, and parental and military leave.
- 401(k) plan with company match up to 4%.
- Company-funded pension plan.
- Wellness programs with up to $1,600 per year in reimbursement for eligible wellbeing purchases.
- Work/life resources covering parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, mental health, and career development.
- Education benefits for approved college degrees and accredited certificate programs.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan allowing eligible shares to be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices.
- Hybrid work arrangement in Newark, NJ, requiring on-site presence three days per week.
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About PGIM
PGIM builds and sells investment management products and services to institutional and individual investors worldwide. It is the global asset management business of Prudential Financial (NYSE: PRU), headquartered in Newark, NJ, with roughly $1.4 trillion in assets under management. Its multi-affiliate platform spans fixed income, equities, real estate, private credit, and alternatives delivered via separate accounts, mutual funds, ETFs, and private funds.