Lead Software Development Engineer

Description and Requirements

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.

Being a leader in the Group Benefit space, Met Life always is in search of top talent who are driven by the purpose of providing excellent customer experience, ready for new challenges, and always focused on providing simplified solutions to complex problems. The Group Benefits area in Met Life is growing, and the group core team is looking for an energetic and motivated Software Engineer who is forward-focused, not afraid of experimentation, and a team player.

In this role, you will be working on a few of the most exciting group business applications, collaborating and interfacing with partners to deliver on enterprise-level strategic initiatives. Your work will make an impact on how Met Life fulfills its promises to the customer and you will have excellent opportunities to interact and contribute to the group's success.

• Lead, Design, develop, implement, and maintain the application using distributed technologies including leading a team of engineers working in the onshore-offshore model.
• Create, write/update the technical and system documentation explaining in detail the changes that are done and their impact.
• Oversee IT aspects of software development life cycle using agile and Dev Sec Ops  methodology across a set of group benefit applications.
• Develop secured, scalable, distributed enterprise level applications from customer perspective that are simple to use and maintain.
• 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.

• 7+ years of hands-on distributed application development experience with JAVA, Typescript / JavaScript, and the following frameworks/technologies:
  Spring, Springboot, ReactJS, NodeJS, and/or Azure.
• 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 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).
• Experience with Dev Sec Ops  practices and tooling for CI/CD, release management, and automation using Azure Dev Ops.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 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. Web Sphere Application Server experience is a plus.
• Experience with tools such as helm charts, ansible, and Terraform is a big plus.

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 $105,400 - $150,000. 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.