Spectraforce Technologies
Job Description:
Job Title: Sofwtare Engineer
Duration: 6 months (Possibility of Conversion to Full time)
Location: Hybrid (Newark, NJ)
Open Positions - (Full Stack/ Front End/ Back End)
As an Associate Software Engineer on the Retirement Strategies Technology team, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to improve to deliver quality platforms and products with speed. You will code, test and debug new and existing applications as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to an applied technical understanding and knowledge, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.
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; 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 Python, Java, or JavaScript and React, Springboot, Node.js frameworks?
The Skills & Expertise You Bring
Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
Leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization??
Conceptual understanding of agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
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
Knowledge/understanding of 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, Flask, Django
Data Store:?NoSQL or Relational Data structures.
Data Streaming:?SQS, Kinesis
Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development; implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA) patterns; Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL
API Management & Integration: Kong, Apigee
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; Solid grasp of security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature, JWT), SSL, web service proxies, firewall, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0)
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 across compute, storage, DB, IAM and analytics
Preferred qualifications:
AWS Development
Architecture Patterns
Design Thinking
Financial/Insurance industry knowledge is a plus, not a must
Experience with agentic frameworks and AI driven development tools is a major plus [Claude Code, GitHub Copilot etc]
Job Title: Sofwtare Engineer
Duration: 6 months (Possibility of Conversion to Full time)
Location: Hybrid (Newark, NJ)
Open Positions - (Full Stack/ Front End/ Back End)
As an Associate Software Engineer on the Retirement Strategies Technology team, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to improve to deliver quality platforms and products with speed. You will code, test and debug new and existing applications as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to an applied technical understanding and knowledge, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.
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; 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 Python, Java, or JavaScript and React, Springboot, Node.js frameworks?
The Skills & Expertise You Bring
Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
Leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization??
Conceptual understanding of agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
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
Knowledge/understanding of 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, Flask, Django
Data Store:?NoSQL or Relational Data structures.
Data Streaming:?SQS, Kinesis
Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development; implementing service-oriented architecture (SOA) patterns; Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL
API Management & Integration: Kong, Apigee
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; Solid grasp of security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature, JWT), SSL, web service proxies, firewall, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0)
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 across compute, storage, DB, IAM and analytics
Preferred qualifications:
AWS Development
Architecture Patterns
Design Thinking
Financial/Insurance industry knowledge is a plus, not a must
Experience with agentic frameworks and AI driven development tools is a major plus [Claude Code, GitHub Copilot etc]