The MetLife EMEA Technology organization is evolving to enable MetLife's New Frontier strategy. With a strong vision in place, we are a function focused on driving digital technology strategies for key technology functions within MetLife including. In partnership with our business leaders, we develop and deliver seamless technology experiences to our employees across the entire employee lifecycle. Our vision and mission is to create innovative, transformative and contemporary technology solutions to empower our leaders and employees so they can focus on what matters most, our customers. We are technologists with strong business acumen focused on developing our talent to continually transform and innovate.

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Platform Engineer, a position with hands-on in Java Full stack development. He/she should be responsible for the design, development and maintenance of software development solutions within a defined system, platform or product, based on a set of standards and processes which establish consistency across the enterprise data, reduce risk and promote efficiencies in support of the organization's goals and objectives. This family can be used for both roles that require a complete technology stack of capabilities as well as roles that require to work on a single technology stack, application or platform.

Software or Platform engineering role can be used where the work requires a minimal amount of technology stack capabilities, work on a single application or roles that support platforms, SaaS, COTS

Key Relationships

Internal Stake Holder – EMEA ART Leader, ART Leadership team, India EMEA Technology AVP, and Business process Owners for EMEA Technology.

Key Responsibilites

Design and implement frontend features in Angular/TypeScript with strong attention to maintainability and performance including maintaining backend features in Java/Kotlin.
Maintain and improve application architecture, including module boundaries, state management patterns, and shared component quality.
Build robust, testable UI logic and increase unit test reliability.
Enforce and improve code quality practices.
Support CI/CD pipeline stability and optimize frontend build/deploy workflows across environments.
Contribute to secure and resilient user-facing flows, including authentication-adjacent and password-recovery experiences.
Collaborate with QA, and DevOps teams to troubleshoot integration and release issues end-to-end.
Participate in controlled modernization where legacy build/runtime patterns coexist with newer toolchains.
Deliver production-quality code with strong test coverage, reliable migrations, and secure integration patterns.
Contribute to shared core library evolution (Kotlin Multiplatform) for reusable cross-service and cross-UI functionality.
Support release engineering activities: Gradle builds, artifact publishing, versioning, and Docker image delivery.
Participate in troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for integration, environment, and production-like issues.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent

Technical Skills

Main Skill: Angular along with Java Spring Framework / Spring Boot
Proven experience in building and consuming RESTful APIS using core HTTP protocols.
Secondary skill: NodeJS and MSSQL
Gradle and Maven
Must have hands-on knowledge on commandline linux
Have experience working in Azure DevOps (boards)
Containerisation (Podman, aks)
Have hands-on worked on GitHub Copilot, GitHub Enterprise
Ability to work with Azure Cloud services development and deployment.
Knowledge in Apache Webserver is Desirable
Knowledge on Github is a must have.
Collaboration
Communication: Ability to communicate effectively to ensure results are achieved
Agile Practices
Collaboration Tools
Product/Business/Industry experience
Application Design/Architecture
Cloud Native Technologies
Communication: Ability to communicate effectively to ensure results are achieved
Collaboration: Proven track record collaborating and working effectively in a global and multi-cultural environment
Diverse environment: Can-do attitude and ability to work in a high paced environment
Ability to support CI/CD pipeline setup and operations.

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