Software Engineer JAVA/ AI

Description and Requirements
Role Value Proposition
MetLife is the leading insurance provider. The MetLife Holdings organization is looking for a Software Engineer in a full-stack developer capacity. Full Stack Software Development engineer's role is to provide design, engineering, and implementation support. In this role, you will interact with the Agile Delivery Team, Business and IT Leaders, and IT partners, providing technical support throughout the project lifecycle. Focus will include solution design, security, development, debugging, and production support. We are looking for an energetic and motivated system development engineer who is forward-focused, a creative problem solver, not afraid of experimentation, and a team player who enjoys working in an Agile Delivery Model. Your work will make an impact on how MetLife fulfills its promises to the customer, and you will have excellent opportunities to interact and contribute to the organization's success.
Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in design discussions and provide technical support to application developers and operations support staff. This includes promoting use of best practices, ensuring standardization across applications, and troubleshooting.
• Implement integration solutions through collaboration with engineers and application teams across the global enterprise.
• Promote and utilize automation to design and support configuration management, orchestration, and maintenance of the integration platforms using tools and scripts such as Ansible, Python, PowerShell, and Linux shell.
• Investigate, recommend, implement, and maintain document generation solutions across technologies.
• Learn new technologies and develop automation scripts in collaboration with senior engineers.

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:
Required:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 2+ years of distributed systems development with some of the following: Java, Java Spring Boot, JavaScript, React/Angular/Web Components, NodeJS, and RestAPI services.
• Experience in building application infrastructures.
• Experience with SQL-similar relational databases.
• Working knowledge of building, deploying and maintaining web applications utilizing Web servers, Application servers, and Database servers.
• Experience with agile methodologies, and tools like JIRA or Azure DevOps.
• Ensuring secure, high code quality across the project.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with focused attention to details, as well as, demonstrated professionalism and time/task management skills; ability to establish strong relationships.

Preferred:

• Working knowledge of AKS, Azure, Docker, and Synapse.
• Experience with API Design & Development (Microservices, Springboot, Java, REST, NodeJS).
• Experience in test-first practices, including Test Drive Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).
• Knowledge of managing Continuous Delivery Pipeline using tools like Git, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Artifactory.
• Design experience utilizing Use Cases, Features, and User Stories.
• Exposure to Microsoft Azure tools.
• Hands-on experimentation with prompt engineering, semantic search, and GenAI
• Exposure to modern AI concepts such as generative AI, various models of machine learning, large language models, conversational AI (chatbot, etc.) as well involvement in older concepts like automation, robotics, and scripting.
• SAFe Agile certification.

At MetLife, we're leading the global transformation of an industry we've long defined. United in purpose, diverse in perspective, we're dedicated to making a difference in the lives of our customers.
The salary range for applicants for this position is $75,000 - $95,000.
Benefits We Offer
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, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more!
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2024 "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, as well as the 2024 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For ®, 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!
Equal Employment Opportunity/Disability/Veterans
If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected]. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application process.
MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
$75,000 - $95,000
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