Job Summary

Role value proposition: MetLife is the leading provider of group benefits. The group disability technology organization is a diverse team of technologists, all working towards the common goal of ensuring the customer is at the center of everything we do. As a software/platform 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.

Your responsibilities include writing full stack code, reviewing code written by the team, design and development of systems, frameworks, applications, and APIs.

Job Details

- Location: Pune, Maharashtra

- Working Schedule: Full time

- Work Arrangement: Hybrid

- Relocation Assistance Available: No

Key Responsibilities

- Assist in the collection and documentation of user requirements as well as the development of user stories and estimates with software, strategic platforms and/or COTS.

- Assists in developing, testing, implementation and support of application systems of a less complex nature. Responsible for front or backend software development, front SaaS and/or COTS development, with oversight.

- Participate in peer reviews of solution designs, related code, and/or related SaaS and/or COTS configuration.

- Assist in the investigation and resolution of production management incidents, problems,



and service requests (in partnership with SaaS providers for Platforms).

- Participates in the support of production applications/platforms (in partnership with SaaS providers for Platforms).

- Identifies innovative solutions to technical challenges

- Hands on development with UI, Backend, Database, APIs, DevOps.

Specifically

React, Java, SQL, Micro services, Azure DevOps. Similar related technologies will be an asset.

- 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

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 practice

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills

- 4-5 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.

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📌 Jr. Software Platform Engineer (Pune)
🏢 MetLife
📍 Pune