Description and Requirements
Role Value Proposition:
As a Senior full-stack engineer you are responsible for the design, development, implementation and maintenance of solutions supporting Disability & Absence products at MetLife - products that provide income protection and job protection to millions of employees across the United States. You will collaborate closely with the Scrum Lead, Product Owner and ART Leadership. You will have an opportunity to impact every part of the system and iterate over solutions to be the very best you can be to deliver for our customers.
You will be responsible for thought leadership, creative problem solving, and applying your expertise in a complex environment. Your responsibilities include writing full stack code, reviewing code written by the team, design and development of systems, frameworks, applications, and APIs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Hands on development with UI, Backend, Database, APIs, DevOps. Specifically React, Java, SQL, Micro services, Azure DevOps. Similar related technologies will be an asset.
- Develop architecture and solution designs.
- Mentor, motivate, influence, drive innovation, and coach broader technical team. Provide technical and solution guidance to the team. Conduct design and code reviews for the team delivery.
- Develop iterative implementation plans and strategies. Estimate user stories, as part of release plan and participate in iteration plan exercises
- Key participant in user story breakdowns, user story elaboration, and user story reviews
- Serve as an escalation point for deployments, and change oversight, enabling highly visible business priorities.
- Responsible for developing and maintaining SRE runbooks.
Expected behaviors:
- A self-starter capable of acting independently and proactively requiring minimal management oversight.
- Ability to work across cultures and geographies to encourage team to adopt best practices
Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:
Required:
- 7+ years related work experience successfully delivered on large, complex projects with demonstrated technical leadership in delivery.
- End-to-end system design that balances the tradeoffs between technical solution, business value and operational simplicity.
- Core hands-on development skills in JavaScript (React or Angular), Java, OOP, SQL, JSON, No-SQL (MongoDB, CosmosDB), Kubernetes, and Scripting.
- Experience developing CRUD APIs, and critical applications from the ground up.
- Experience with Queues/Kafka, Micro services, message brokers, integration patterns.
- Experience developing and deploying applications using GCP or Azure OR AWS solutions.
- Advanced knowledge of the principles in software engineering, system analysis and design, design and analysis of algorithms, computer system architecture, and data structures.
Preferred:
- BS/MS in Comp Science/IS.
- Disability product experience or Insurance industry knowledge.
- Experience using AI/ Co-Pilot.
- Experience with Python.
- Experience working in cross-functional, multi-location teams.
- Experience in SAFe, Agile methodology, tools, and Agile integration with Waterfall.
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2024 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
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What We Do
We're honored to be No. 10 on Great Place to Work's World's Best Workplaces and recognized in the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list in 2025. At MetLife, we're leading the global transformation of an industry we’ve defined for over 157 years.
At MetLife, every innovation and line of code is a lifeline for our customers and their families—from victims of natural disasters to people living with disabilities and beyond. With operations in more than 40 markets and leading positions across the globe, MetLife fosters an inclusive culture where our people are energized and inspired to deliver for our customers and communities.
Join our remarkable journey—one in which you help write the next century of innovation in financial services—because with MetLife, making the world a better place is All Together Possible.
Why Work With Us
At MetLife, you’ll be working for a company whose purpose is to help customers throughout their life’s journey, and often in their most critical time of need. You’ll be a part of developing leading-edge platforms that will have a lasting impact on the lives and well-being of tens of millions of customers.
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