Lead Software Development Engineer

About the Role

When you join MetLife’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.

The Group Benefits area in MetLife 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 work on some of the most exciting group business applications, collaborating and interfacing with partners to deliver on enterprise-level strategic initiatives. Your work will impact how MetLife fulfills its promises to customers, and you will have excellent opportunities to interact and contribute to the group's success.

Responsibilities

• Lead, design, develop, implement, and maintain applications using distributed technologies, including leading a team of engineers working in an onshore-offshore model.
• Create, write, and update technical and system documentation explaining in detail the changes made and their impact.
• Oversee IT aspects of the software development life cycle using Agile and DevSecOps methodologies across a set of group benefit applications.
• Develop secure, scalable, distributed enterprise-level applications from the customer perspective that are simple to use and maintain.
• Coordinate and collaborate with development teams, business systems analysts, product and business teams, partners, and project leads across various phases of project and product delivery.

Requirements

• 7+ years of overall experience.
• Hands-on development experience with Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, and frameworks/technologies such as Spring, Spring Boot, ReactJS, NodeJS, and/or AWS.
• Hands-on development of microservices and applications from the ground up, with experience in 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/or NoSQL (CosmosDB preferred).
• Container-based development leveraging Docker and/or Kubernetes, and experience with DevSecOps practices and tooling for CI/CD, release management, and/or automation using Azure DevOps.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field with 7+ years of hands-on distributed application development experience.
• 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.
• WebSphere Application Server experience is a plus.
• Experience with tools such as Helm charts, Ansible, and Terraform is a big plus.

Schedule

This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in the office.

Pay

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.

Benefits

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 coverage, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability.
• Company-paid life insurance and legal services.
• A retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and a 401(k) with employer matching.
• Group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto, home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs.
• Parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, and volunteer time off.
• Tuition assistance and much more.