Lead Full Stack Software Engineer

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. Ready to push boundaries and set new industry standards? Join us and help drive the future of technology forward.

The Lead Full Stack Software Engineer is responsible for leading and developing full stack applications across the globe. Guided by our purpose – always with you building a more confident future – and our New Frontier strategy focused on stronger growth, attractive returns and all-weather performance, this is an exciting opportunity to lead a team of dedicated software engineers in building solutions for complex and interesting technical systems as well as business needs.

· Lead a dedicated team of software engineers.

· Create applications and solutions for dynamic business needs.

· Develop full stack applications.

· Coordinate between internal and external teams to provide solutions and deliver.

• 8 years of hands-on distributed application development experience with JAVA, Typescript / JavaScript, and the following frameworks/technologies: Spring, Spring Boot, ReactJS, NodeJS, and/or Azure.
• Strong hands-on full stack application development experience with expertise in building scalable solutions, integrating external systems (REST APIs, SOAP APIs), and applying best practices across architecture, data modeling, security, and performance optimization.
• Experience with DevOps practices and tooling for CI/CD, release management, and automation using Azure/AWS DevOps.
• 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.
• Hands-on development of microservices and applications from the ground up, experience with messaging/integration technologies (e.g. MQ, or similar).
• WebSphere Application Server experience is a plus.
• Experience with tools such as helmcharts, ansible, and Terraform is a plus.
• Proficiency with various database technologies and solutions, including both SQL (Oracle or SQL Server preferred) and NoSQL (CosmosDB preferred).

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The expected salary range for this position is $120,000 - $165,000. 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.