Principal Full Stack Engineer

When you join Met Life’s Global Technology team, you’ll be part of a forward‑thinking group dedicated to shaping the future of digital solutions for customers worldwide. You’ll develop, maintain and support technology applications and delivery, leveraging AI, automation, and contemporary ways of working to enhance experiences and drive business outcomes. Your work will simplify complex processes, improve tech resiliency, and ensure high‑performing, seamless solutions that power life’s most important moments.

In this dynamic environment, you’ll collaborate with talented peers across teams and functions, expanding your skills in impactful ways. Ready to push boundaries and set new industry standards? Join us and help drive the future of technology forward.

We are looking for Principal SWE Tech Lead / Salesforce Architect to lead design and delivery of scalable Salesforce solutions. This role will act as the technical authority, driving architecture, integrations, and end‑to‑end solution delivery across Salesforce and connected systems.

• Translate business requirements into scalable technical designs
• Lead development and integration across Salesforce and external systems
• Partner with product, business, and engineering teams
• Manage and mentor distributed (onshore/offshore) teams

Salesforce Architects are expected to design, build, and implement complex enterprise solutions while bridging business and technology.

• Lead technical delivery and architecture governance.
• Design and develop secure, scalable, distributed enterprise level end‑to‑end Salesforce based solutions (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, integrations, etc.).
• Oversee IT aspects of software development life cycle using agile and Dev Sec Ops  methodology across a set of group benefit applications.
• Manage stakeholders’ expectations, balance priority across more than one team.
• Coordinate and collaborate with dev teams, business systems analysts, product & business teams, partners and project leads across various phases of a project and product delivery.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field with 10+ years of hands‑on distributed application development experience.
• 7+ years of strong hands‑on Salesforce development experience (Apex, LWC, SOQL) with expertise in building scalable solutions, integrating external systems (REST APIs, event‑driven architecture), and applying best practices across architecture, data modeling, security, and performance optimization.
• Hands‑on development experience with JAVA, Typescript / JavaScript, and the following frameworks/technologies:
  Spring, Springboot, ReactJS, NodeJS, and/or Azure/AWS.
• Exposure or knowledge of messaging/integration technologies.

• Experience with Dev Sec Ops  practices and tooling for CI/CD, release management, and automation using Azure Dev Ops.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure Services:
  Functions, AKS, ASE, CosmosDB.
• Experience with MACH architecture (Microservices, API, Cloud, Headless) and cloud‑first infrastructure. Experience with Veracode and security best practices.
• Experience with tools such as helm charts, ansible, and Terraform is a big plus.
• Hands‑on development of microservices and applications from the ground up. Experience with messaging/integration technologies (e.g., Kafka, MQ, or similar).
• Proficiency with various database technologies and solutions, including both SQL (Oracle or MS SQL Server preferred) and No
  
  SQL (CosmosDB preferred).

Location Expectation:
This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.

The expected salary range for this position is $123,500 - $164,700. This role may also be eligible for annual short‑term incentive compensation and stock‑based long‑term incentives. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.

Our U.S. benefits address holistic well‑being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no‑cost short‑and…