Software Developer/ Engineer/ Architect

Software Development Engineer I

Role Value Proposition: 

At MetLife, we are looking for a candidate to provide leadership in an exciting development environment promoting teamwork and innovation. We currently design, develop, implement and support applications leveraging data assets and follow the full systems development lifecycle (SDLC).  We complete application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities; driving team meetings; troubleshooting development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platforms. We work collaboratively with cross functional teams to deliver best in class customer interactions.

 

 

Key Responsibilities: 

Are you interested in the design and coding of complex problems across a suite of applications?

Have you a drive to do test driven development (TDD) and run tests to find errors and revise programs?

Do you have the mindset to work in a DevOps world and provide support as required on production applications?

Do you have a passion for interfacing with system designers to design, code, test and implement application minor enhancements?

Candidates will assist in developing application specifications and participate in post- implementation reviews of both application development content and process plus the support model to maximize and share learning.

The candidate will write documentation that describes installation and operating procedures.

Candidates shall provide technical support to technical vendor resources

As appropriate we:

Design and code business process models.

Design and code business rules and algorithms.

Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills:

 

Required:

  • Degree (Level 8) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or related field
  • 2 + years of related work experience of which some time was in a multinational environment
  • 1-3 years minimum programming in C#, both in internet and desktop environments. Proficiency in CSS, HTML5 along with good knowledge of JavaScript and JavaScript based libraries.
  • 1-3 years minimum of solid database design skills in relational databases such as MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle or DB2 and solid experience with SQL and creation of DB objects including stored procedures, views, triggers etc.  

Preferred:

  • Experience in developing and consuming both windows and RESTful services.
  • Experience working in an Agile environment with Engineering scrum teams is an added advantage.
  • Experience in tools such as Visual Studio, TFS, Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD, Jenkins