Senior Infrastructure Developer - API Center for Enablement

Prudential Financial • Newark, NJ

1d • $104,000 - $171,600

About The Position

Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability, and efficiency? The Global Technology team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA! When you join our organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock an exciting and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions. Your Team & Role Prudential is on a technology modernization journey, and APIs are at the heart of it. We are building a team to enable an API transformation across the enterprise. A new API gateway is being built, enhancements to our API portal strategy are underway, and the evangelization and education of developers for an API-centric/design first environment has begun. As a Senior Developer for the API COE team within the CTO, you will help drive the critical technology strategy for API Management at Prudential. Specifically, you will contribute hands-on to deliver on an API governance, standardization, and enterprise-usable API transformation program. You will partner with product owners, tech leads, and, most importantly, business application development teams to enable them on the Enterprise API platform. You will enable API best practices, engineer automated pipelines for building APIs while creating reusable, reliable, consistent, and scalable APIs for consumption across and outside of Prudential.

Requirements

• Proven experience building enterprise‑grade APIs using modern languages such as Java, Python, Node.js, or Go, supported by DevOps and Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).
• Strong grounding in domain‑driven, specification‑first API design, including REST best practices, API standardization, and governance.
• Broad API architecture knowledge across REST, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets, and AsyncAPI.
• Hands‑on experience with API management platforms (e.g., Kong, Apigee, MuleSoft, Layer7).
• Skilled with API design tools such as SwaggerHub and Stoplight.
• Cloud and container orchestration expertise (EKS, ECS, or similar).
• Deep understanding of API authentication and authorization patterns, especially OAuth2.
• Solid grasp of observability practices (metrics, logging, tracing).
• Proficiency in automated testing frameworks across unit, regression, contract, performance, and stress testing.
• Experience supporting production operations and incident response for high‑volume global platforms.
• Strong problem‑solving, communication, collaboration, and continuous‑learning mindset.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with your Tech Leads to execute on technical delivery
• Automate, and execute on API transformation inclusive of security, specification, and operability standards
• Build and run DX-first applications that support the execution of our strategy, such as SDKs, CLIs, AI Agent skills.
• Work with application development teams to enable the API transformation; provide coaching on API best practices, review use cases, and assist with the migration to the new API platform
• Lead with an IaC and DevOps mindset, promoting frequent, small changes.
• Identify opportunities for simplification in API tooling, development, and platform management processes.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level