Jr. Software Platform Engineer

Description and Requirements
Position Summary
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 acrost 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.
Job Responsibilities

• Assists in the creation of architectural specifications, ensuring feasibility, functionality, and integration with existing systems and/or SaaS platforms in a limited capacity.
• Participate 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.
• Participates in technical design, development, implementation and maintenance of application systems. Responsible for front or backend development, with an understanding of both and/or responsible for SaaS and/or COTS delivery.
• Participate in peer reviews of solution designs, related code, and/or related SaaS and/or COTS configuration.
• Participates in the investigation and resolution of production management incidents, problems, and service requests (in partnership with SaaS providers for Platforms).
• Supports 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
• Responsible for developing and maintaining SRE runbooks.

Education, Technical Skills & Other Critical Requirement
Education
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
Experience
(In Years)
2 - 4 Years
Technical Skills

• Design, Develop and maintain robust test automation framework for web, API and backend systems.
• Good knowledge of testing methodologies (e.g. TDD)

• Hands on working experience of automation tools like (Preferred Selenium, Its fine if knowledge of other tools like Playwrite, RestAssured, TestNG, Junit, PyTest)
• Good understanding of REST APIs and tools like Postman and Swagger.
• Experience with version control systems & CI/CD (Git / GitHub, AzureDevOps, Jenkins etc)
• Good to have working knowledge of MS Azure cloud environment.
• Good to have ADA testing experience and tools (e.g. Axe, WAVE, Lighthouse etc)
• Good to have ADA manual testing experience (e.g. Keyboard navigation, Testing with screen readers, checking color contrast, right font size etc).

Non-Technical Skills

• SAFe for Teams
• Collaboration
• Communication/Presentation
• Agile Practices
• Collaboration Tools
• Product/Business/Industry Knowledge
• Customer experience

About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2025 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, 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.
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 empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
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