Lead Front-End Engineer – React Architect

Prudential Financial; The Ironbound (NJ); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Pension plan

Wellness programs

Education benefit

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Prudential Financial’s PGIM Product Technology is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design and deliver high‑quality React-based front‑ends. You’ll work across React, .NET, Python, and SQL/NoSQL services to build scalable UI components and architectures while guiding a small engineering team.

You will own frontend strategy, enforce best practices, and participate in design systems, accessibility, testing, and performance optimization in a hybrid Newark, NJ role requiring on-site presence part

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of modern, scalable UI architectures using React, TypeScript.
• Collaborate with product owners, UX designers, and backend teams to deliver end-to-end functionality.
• Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive consistent engineering practices.

Skills

React

TypeScript

UI architecture

Leadership

Mentoring

CI/CD

Azure

API consumption

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Next.js

Node.js

Power Pages

Azure DevOps

Job description

Prudential Financial’s PGIM Product Technology is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design and deliver high‑quality React-based front‑ends. You’ll work across React, .NET, Python, and SQL/NoSQL services to build scalable UI components and architectures while guiding a small engineering team.

You will own frontend strategy, enforce best practices, and participate in design systems, accessibility, testing, and performance optimization in a hybrid Newark, NJ role requiring on-site presence part