
Software Development Engineer
Cary, NC · HybridJob$70–90K/yrSeen 3 days agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
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MetLife’s Global Technology team seeks a Software Development Engineer to build and operate cloud-based applications. The role develops Node.js APIs, integrates front-end elements with server-side logic, and creates secure, scalable solutions. It also involves Terraform configurations to migrate applications to standardized Azure landing zones, collaborating with business and engineering teams in an agile framework. The position requires at least three days per week in the office.
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Description and Requirements
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
Software Development Engineer to build and operate cloud-based applications in an efficient, safe, and compliant manner. We maintain a global view of cloud adoption and leverage infrastructure as code to engineer a cloud platform providing self-service capabilities and metrics to drive desired behaviors around financial operations, security posture, and overall good hygiene for cloud-based applications.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain server-side JavaScript code, specifically Node.js APIs.
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code.
- Understand and work with APIs, both internal and external.
- Experience with Node.js and Express.js.
- Experience in CI/CD to build and deploy Node JS applications
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to think algorithmically.
- Deliver fit for purpose, secure, scalable, solution architectures in an agile framework that evolves with the line of business by collaborating with AD, business, and engineering teams.
- Create and maintain terraform configurations as part of Build the Boat process using internal tools to migrate cloud applications from legacy subscriptions to new standardized azure landing zones.
Required Qualifications
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2 - 3 years of overall experience.
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Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent degree type.
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Proven experience in software development, specifically with Node JS and React.
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Proven experience in building highly secure REST APIs and integration with different platforms
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Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
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Strong problem-solving skills and ability to think algorithmically.
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Experience with following:
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CI/CD pipeline to build and deploy to Azure services
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Agile methodology
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API integration.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proven experience with Azure cloud services (including most of the following: Azure App Service, Azure SQL, API Management, Key Vault, etc.).
- Working knowledge of Agile, CI/CD pipelines, ideally using Azure DevOps or similar tooling.
- Knowledge of Python and any ASGI server.
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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 $70,000 - $90,000. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.
Benefits We Offer
Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more! For more information regarding MetLife’s U.S. benefits, please [1] click here.
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s [2] #AllTogetherPossible. Join us!
MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law ("protected characteristics").
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.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liabilities.
This posting is for a current vacancy and is anticipated to remain open for at least 90 days from the listed posting date. References
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How this job compares
Set against the 1,352 open Software Development Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$70–90K/yr
- US median$144–194K/yr1,241 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $80K, is 53% below the US median midpoint ($169K) — in the lowest quarter of Software Development Engineer salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 12 open Software Development Engineer jobs in North Carolina and 1,352 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Software Development Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 1,223 postings).
- Education
- 635 of the 1,352 open Software Development Engineer jobs (47%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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