Description and Requirements
Role Value Proposition
MetLife is the leading provider of Group Benefits. The MetLife Group Benefits Sales and Underwriting team is looking for an experienced Lead Software Engineer in a full stack developer capacity.
As a Lead Full Stack Engineer on the team in Cary, NC, you will be responsible for leading technical design and development of cross functional, multi-platform applications that solve complex business problems. The role will be a highly visible hands-on technology driver supporting platform product development by creating innovative solutions, as well as driving solutions that modernize, stabilize, and support the growth of our portfolio. You will interact with Agile Delivery Team, senior Business and IT Leaders, and IT partners, providing technical support throughout the project lifecycle. Focus will include solution design, security, development, debugging, profiling, and performance tuning. You will engage with multiple concurrent teams and provide governance to ensure that standards and best practices are followed.
We are looking for an energetic and motivated system development engineer who is forward-focused, 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

• Lead the technical design/development/integration of solutions using existing and emerging technology platforms.
• Develop modern digital microservices on cloud our Underwriting and Group Compensation Platforms as part of an Agile scrum team. This role has focus on building API layer in Java Spring Boot and Node.js.
• Partner across MetLife development teams to craft end to end technical solutions
• Participate in fit/gap analysis of requirements, help manage user expectations and provide options, develop technical designs, conduct peer code reviews, write code
• Working in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software
• Agile Sprint planning, including estimation, user story breakdown, user story review & feedback
• Deployment support
• Create and update necessary technical documentation
• Support diagnosis and remediation of production issues
• Diagnose, document, and correct/upgrade technical debt
• Mentor, motivate, influence, drive innovation, and coach broader technical team. Offer technology thought leadership and mentor junior technical staff members.
• Work effectively in a matrixed organization to diagnose issues, solve problems, and deliver solutions

Required:

• 5+ years' experience in Software Development and strong technical experience with designing & building enterprise scale web based applications
• 5+ years of distributed systems development with some of the following: Java, Java Sprint Boot, React/Angular/Web Components, NodeJS, RestAPI services
• Experience with no-SQL, DB2 or similar relational databases
• Azure or AWS cloud experience.
• Experience with agile methodologies, and tools like JIRA or Azure DevOps
• 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.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Preferred:

• 5+ years' experience in Software Development and strong technical experience with designing & building enterprise scale applications
• Experience driving DevOps adoption
• Experience in test-first practices, including Test Drive Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
• Experience creating strategy and process for managing Continuous Delivery Pipeline using tools like: Subversion, Git, BitBucket, Bamboo, Jenkins, UCD, Nexus, Artifactory, Gradle/Groovy
• Experience instrumenting and using monitoring tools such as Splunk and AppDynamics
• Experience in working within Financial Services, Insurance and/or Banking institutions.

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.
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