Senior FullStack Software Engineer

The Team You Will Join

Met Life is on a transformational journey into the New Frontier. Working closely with our business partners, we are embarking on a transformation that will drive a holistic and cohesive product-aligned model, enabled by an end-to-end delivery capability to drive our highest impact enterprise strategic agenda. Within Met Life Global Technology - Corporate Systems - Controls, our team assists our IT and business partners in solving complex operational and risk management challenges by rapidly delivering lasting transformations with speed and discipline.

Driven by passion and purpose, you will be instrumental in driving change and implementing Met Life’s product model for our businesses while aligning our brand and technology to bring immediate value to our customers and partners.

Met Life Finance & Risk Management Technology - Controls IT is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer. The ideal candidate will possess strong development and engineering capabilities, communication, collaboration, with hands-on experience in custom software development and data engineering, supporting Risk, Compliance, and Internal Audit functions. Solid understanding of best practices and developer enablement required. The role is both hands-on and strategic, often guiding teams through architectural decisions, platform modernization, and agile delivery practices.

• Partner with product owners to plan, prioritize, and deliver high‑impact business outcomes.

• Lead the design, development, and testing of custom software components and data processing pipelines, including the creation and maintenance of architectural documentation.

• Oversee operational support activities and conduct root‑cause analysis for complex systems and workflows.

• Champion and promote best practices across AI/ML, Dev Ops, Agile methodologies, and Cloud technologies.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in custom software development (React, Java, and Python) within a cloud-based Dev Ops environment, including strong familiarity with CI/CD automation.

• 3+ years of practical experience with most of the following AI/ML technologies and libraries (examples include: PySpark, Pandas, Num Py, Lang Chain, Hugging Face, LLM/RAG integration, prompt engineering).

• 3+ years of hands-on experience building and optimizing Data Engineering pipelines using technologies such as Databricks, Hadoop, PySpark, Delta Tables, and/or Airflow.

• Strong proficiency in database design, software design patterns, performance tuning, and API integration.

• Hands‑on experience with Agile frameworks and Dev Ops pipelines.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to build strong partnerships across technical and business stakeholders.

• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, process‑improvement, and technical‑leadership capabilities.

• Proven ability to translate strategic business objectives into actionable technical deliverables, including user story creation and backlog management.

• Experience working in complex global organizations, collaborating effectively across multiple business units and regions.

• Familiarity with Enterprise Risk Management, Compliance, Internal Audit, or other GRC-related domains.

• Experience working with Azure Dev Ops.

• Experience with infrastructure automation (Terraform).

• Master’s degree preferred.

• Experience working within Financial Services or a global insurance organization.

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