Software Engineer

at  Prudential Plc

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.
In this role, you will design, develop and provide support for Point of Sales platform/s for Prudential Singapore to power Sales Process done by life Insurance Distribution channels. This is a hands-on software engineering & software engineering leadership role.
We are looking for an Engineering enthusiast who is passionate around solving business problems through innovation & engineering practices. This role requires the candidate to have depth of knowledge and expertise that can be applied to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner continuously with multiple stakeholders regularly to stay focused on common goals.
As part of this dynamic role you will work closely with business units and other IT teams to deliver leading edge technology to enable digital capabilities of Prudential Singapore.

Job Descriptions:

• Deliver technical excellence
• Contribute to the translation of business requirements into well-architected software solutions
• Participate and at times facilitate technical discussions with the team
• Adhere and contribute to platform related technical standards and processes
• Develops data integration, migration and deployment strategies
• Deliver applications in accordance to relevant IT policies and procedures
• Adhere to company’s Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Identify and solve complex problems collaboratively
• Contribute to the technical training & development of the team

Who we are looking for:

Technical Skills:

• Strong background in design/development and support of large web-based systems, complete software product lifecycle exposure
• Strong culture on Software Testing (Unit Test, TDD, BDD)
• 6-8 years of Back End development experience
• Experience and affinity with Agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, XP/eXtreme Programming)
• Complexity estimation / planning poker
• Strong background in design/development of Java/Spring Boot based systems
• Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning, engineering best practices, and deployment methodologies
• Must have Experience with:
• Java 8+
• RESTful APIs and Microservices development (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud)
• TDD/BDD (JUnit, Mockito and cucumber)
• RDBMS, NoSQL
• Event based systems / Development Reactive development / Event Streams
• Code Version Control tools (GIT, bitbucket)
• DevOps (CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Cloud platform(Azure,APIM)
• Good understanding of Linux VM

Personal Traits:

• Excellent problem analysis skills. Innovative and creative in developing solutions
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong emphasis on teamwork and collaboration to deliver business value
• Passionate about delivery of quality software
• Strong sense of drive and commitment
• Strong sense of personal accountability
• Works well in a dynamic environment

Education

• Bachelor’s in computer science, Computer Engineering or equivalent/higher

Language

• Fluent written and spoken English

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.

Please refer the Job description for details