Prudential Financial, Inc.

PGIM Fixed Income - Senior Software Engineer

Letterkenny, Ireland Full time

As the Global Asset Management business of Prudential, we’re always looking for ways to improve financial services. We’re passionate about making a meaningful impact - touching the lives of millions and solving financial challenges in an ever-changing world.

We also believe talent is key to achieving our vision and are intentional about building a culture on respect and collaboration. When you join PGIM, you’ll unlock a motivating and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading global asset managers!  

If you’re not afraid to think differently and challenge the status quo, come and be a part of a dedicated team that’s investing in your future by shaping tomorrow today.

At PGIM, You Can!

Who We Look For:

In PGIM Fixed Income, our Front Office technology team is a dynamic, fast-paced environment with exciting challenges on the horizon. We are looking for a senior software engineer with strong tech skills to help us build our next generation of portfolio management and trading systems. Fixed income knowledge is preferred but not required for candidates with strong desire to learn business knowledge.  

This position is performed in a hybrid manner with a mix of work performed from our office in Letterkenny, Ireland and remotely.

What you can expect:

  • Build applications ensuring that the code follows modern coding practices and industry standards, using best design patterns and architectural principles. 
  • Develop high-quality, well-documented, and efficient code adhering to all applicable company standards. 
    Collaborate with tech leads to define technical designs and work with other team members to understand the system end-to-end.
  • Partner with product owners to understand business needs, define feature stories, and deliver robust solutions with real business impact. 
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents and service requests in a timely fashion.
  • Develop unit tests, integration tests, and functional automation, researching and resolving problems discovered by quality assurance or product support. 
  • Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, coach team members, and drive technical excellence. 
  • Work on complex problems requiring analytical skills and the ability to evaluate intangible variables. 
  • Identify opportunities to simplify the application development toolset, reducing unnecessary complexity and streamlining processes. 
  • Maintain a consistent feedback loop with development teams to champion modern technology adoption and decommissioning of legacy stacks. 
  • Develop applications using programming languages, including but not limited to Java (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud), Python, JavaScript (Angular, React, Node.js). 
  • Work as part of a delivery team, collaborating with others to understand requirements, analyses and refine stories, design solutions, implement them, test them, and support them in production.
  • Ensure that the software you build is reliable and easy to support in production. Providing level 3 support for production issues when needed.

What you will bring:

  • 5+ years of experience developing software applications with a primary focus on Java (Spring framework)
  • Exposure to building applications and APIs using Python programming language, frameworks, libraries and packages.
  • Experience in writing and testing scalable code, debugging programs, and integrating applications with third-party web services.
  • Relational database experience in Microsoft SQL server and PostgreSQL.
  • Knowledge of Java enterprise development using Spring Boot, Spring Framework and REST APIs is a plus.

*PGIM welcomes all applicants, even if you don't meet every requirement. If your skills align with the role, we encourage you to apply. *

What we offer you

  • Health Insurance: PGIM Ireland partner with Laya and BUPA to provide health insurance schemes that cover eligible employees day to day medical and hospital expenses.

  • Annual Leave of 23 days at full pay increasing with service

  • Pension Scheme: Members of the scheme can contribute up to 8% of salary per annum and PGIM Ireland matches contributions up to 8% of salary. Members can also make voluntary contributions to the scheme.

  • Annual Bonus Programme & Shop LK Vouchers / CleverCards (subject to eligibility): Along with an annual bonus employees are rewarded with Shop LK Vouchers/ CleverCards which are paid tax free.

  • Life Assurance: fully paid by PGIM Ireland, employees are covered from their start date and beneficiaries are provided with a lump sum of four times an employee’s salary.

  • Education Assistance: PGIM Ireland have an Education Assistance Programme that reimburses eligible employees for furthering their education.

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PGIM Ireland is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of applicants’ gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race or membership of the traveler community. PGIM Ireland's aim is to hire the best people for the open roles and all appointments will be made on merit.
 
Any offer of employment made by PGIM Ireland will be contingent on receiving satisfactory references. Applicants should be aware that background checks will be carried out on all candidates offered a position within PGIM Ireland.
 
PGIM Ireland has been awarded the IBEC Keep Well Accreditation Mark, this is in recognition of our commitment to making our employees wellbeing a priority.