Lead Software engineer

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.

Job Profile Summary:

In this role, you will design, develop, and provide support for platform/s for Prudential. This is a hands-on software engineering & software engineering leadership role.

We are looking for an Engineering 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 Description:

• Work as part of a team of developers to analyze, design, develop, test, deploy and support applications to meet business objectives.

• Maintain and support the applications in accordance to Service Level Agreement.

• Deliver applications in accordance to relevant IT policies and procedures

• Resolve new/complex problems which may impact the application.

Who we are looking for:

• Strong background in design/development (functional and non-blocking programming) and support of large web-based systems, complete software product lifecycle exposure

• Strong culture on Software Testing (Unit Test, TDD, BDD)

• 5-8 years of Back End development experience

• Experience and affinity with Agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)

• 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 11+

• RESTful APIs and Microservices development (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud)

• TDD/BDD (JUnit, Mockito and cucumber)

• Any RDBMS and NoSQL

• Code Version Control tools (GIT, bitbucket)

• Basic of DevOps (CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes)

• Basic of Cloud platform (Services like Kubernetes, API Gateway)

• Basic of Event Bus (confluent -  Kafka)

Working Experience:

• More than 8 years in designing, developing, and maintaining IT applications.

• Experience in leading / supervising an application development team.

• Experience in Agile software development

• Experience with 3rd party vendor management is an added advantage.

Education:

• Bachelor in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent

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.