Lead Full Stack Software Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 13, 2026.
The Team You Will Join
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 Opportunity
Join a highly collaborative technology environment where you’ll help shape and deliver complex, large-scale applications used across a global organization. This role offers the opportunity to remain hands-on with design, development, debugging, and performance tuning while also providing technical leadership and governance across multiple development teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement large and complex technology projects at a global scale, applying product-centric technical expertise to navigate complex deployments with multiple systems and teams.
- Collaborate with business and IT partners in the design and implementation of complex distributed applications. Contribute to the technical design and development of applications using existing and emerging technology platforms. Convert business problems into programming instructions.
- Design and code programs, create test transactions, and run tests as necessary. Monitor operating efficiency of existing application systems.
- Review, analyze, and modify programming systems, including encoding, testing, debugging, and installing for a large-scale system.
- Provide technical support to project teams throughout project lifecycle around technology platforms, solution design, security, debugging, profiling, and performance tuning.
- Provide governance over development teams to ensure that standards and best practices are being followed.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information technology and five (5) years of experience designing applications and systems at web scale.
- 5 years of experience in Java and/or node js
- 2 years of experience in React.
- Specific skills/other requirements - must also possess experience in the following: Designing enterprise APIs and documenting them in OpenAPI Specification. Developing enterprise APIs in Microservices architecture using Java.
- Spring Cloud framework. Designing and implementing DevOps Pipelines for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery of code in a cloud computing environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in SQL or Oracle technologies.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies.
- Experience in leading and mentoring software development teams.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with containerized applications in Azure cloud infrastructure using technologies such as Kubernetes and Istio service mesh. Monitoring and analyzing performance of complex distributed applications using Splunk and AppDynamics Observability Platform.
Location Expectation: This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.
The expected salary range for this position is $120,000 - $161,600. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.