Java Full Stack Developer

Metlife; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Metlife in Hyderabad is seeking a senior full-stack developer to design, build, and maintain enterprise applications. You will implement backend services, REST APIs, and microservices with Java and Spring Boot, while delivering responsive frontend features using React or Angular.

You will collaborate across teams in an Agile environment, participate in reviews, and support CI/CD and production readiness. The role emphasizes secure coding, performance, logging, and observability to ensure

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in full-stack application development for enterprise systems.
• Strong hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices.
• Experience building frontend apps with React, Angular, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
• Good understanding of relational and NoSQL databases and data modeling.
• Experience in Agile teams and sprint processes.
• Hands-on exposure to CI/CD pipelines, source control, build automation, deployment automation, and cloud-ready engineering practices.
• Familiarity with containers, cloud platforms, observability, and production support is a plus.
• Exposure to AI-assisted software engineering tools like GitHub Copilot is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain full-stack enterprise applications using modern engineering practices.
• Build backend services, REST APIs, and integration components using Java, Spring Boot, and related enterprise frameworks.
• Develop responsive and user-friendly frontend components using modern web technologies and reusable UI patterns.
• Collaborate with business analysts, architects, QA engineers, DevOps teams, and application owners to deliver features in an Agile model.
• Participate in code reviews, unit testing, functional validation, release readiness, and production support activities.
• Apply secure coding, performance, logging, monitoring, and resilience practices to improve application quality and stability.
• Support CI/CD, deployment automation, documentation, and change-management processes required for enterprise technology delivery.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Microservices

React

Angular

TypeScript

JavaScript

Databases

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud

Agile

Tools

Git

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Bamboo

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain full-stack enterprise applications using modern engineering practices.
• Build backend services, REST APIs, and integration components using Java, Spring Boot, and related enterprise frameworks.
• Develop responsive and user-friendly frontend components using modern web technologies and reusable UI patterns.
• Collaborate with business analysts, architects, QA engineers, DevOps teams, and application owners to deliver features in an Agile model.
• Participate in code reviews, unit testing, functional validation, release readiness, and production support activities.
• Apply secure coding, performance, logging, monitoring, and resilience practices to improve application quality and stability.
• Support CI/CD, deployment automation, documentation, and change-management processes required for enterprise technology delivery.

Candidate Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in full-stack application development, preferably in enterprise systems.
• Strong hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices-based application development.
• Experience in building frontend applications using React, Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, or equivalent modern web frameworks.
• Good understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, data modeling, query optimization, and integration patterns.
• Experience working in Agile teams and contributing to sprint planning, development, testing, demos, and retrospectives.
• Hands-on exposure to CI/CD pipelines, source control, build automation, deployment automation, and cloud-ready engineering practices.
• Working knowledge of containers, cloud platforms, observability, and production support practices is preferred.
• Exposure to AI-assisted software engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar developer productivity platforms is an advantage.

Tech Stack

• Full-stack development of enterprise applications across frontend, backend, database, and integration layers.
• Strong Java development skills including object-oriented design, collections, exception handling, concurrency basics, and clean coding practices.
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot, Spring Framework, RESTful services, dependency injection, configuration management, and microservices development.
• Frontend technologies such as React, Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Material UI, or equivalent enterprise UI frameworks.
• Databases and persistence technologies including SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cosmos DB, Cassandra, or equivalent.
• Containers and cloud-ready deployment exposure with Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, GCP, or equivalent platforms.
• CI/CD and DevOps tools such as Git, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, UCD, or similar.
• Observability, logging, monitoring, and quality tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, SonarQube, Veracode, JUnit, Mockito, or equivalent.