Developer Visa Sponsorship Jobs in North Carolina
North Carolina's developer job market spans Research Triangle Park's tech corridor, Charlotte's growing fintech scene, and Raleigh's expanding software sector. Major employers like Red Hat, Cisco, Fidelity, and Lenovo regularly sponsor H-1B visas for developers. With strong university pipelines from NC State, UNC, and Duke, the state draws consistent international developer talent.
Find Developer JobsOverview
Showing 5 of 643+ Developer Jobs in North Carolina with Visa Sponsorship
See all 643+ Developer Jobs in North Carolina with Visa Sponsorship
Sign up for free to unlock all listings, filter by visa type, and get alerts for new Developer Jobs in North Carolina with Visa Sponsorship.
Get Access To All JobsGeneral Information
Location
Cary, North Carolina
Alternative Location(s)
Posting Location: Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania
Posting Location: Bridgewater, New Jersey
* Posting Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Working Schedule
Full-Time
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Relocation Assistance Available
No
Posted Date
29-Jul-2026
Job ID
19332
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
The Senior Full Stack Software Engineer is responsible for modernizing, reimagining, supporting, and retiring mainframe applications across the MetLife Holdings Classic Agile Release Train. The ideal candidate will possess deep mainframe development and engineering capabilities with technologies including COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, or similar programming languages. This role plays a key part in maintaining the stability of applications, while advancing MetLife's modernization strategy through the transformation of legacy mainframe platforms, adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices, and retirement of aging technologies. Guided by our purpose – always with you, building a more confident future – and our New Frontier strategy focused on stronger growth, attractive returns and all-weather performance, this is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of MetLife Holdings technology and support the Annuity & Life Insurance Next Evolution migration.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the application modernization and decommissioning initiatives, including application rationalization, dependency analysis, migration activities, and retirement of legacy platforms while ensuring compliance with business, regulatory, and operational requirements.
- Create and maintain mainframe applications’ batch processes to support business functions, improve operational efficiency, and enable the reliable delivery of business capabilities.
- Oversee application quality, code reviews, automated testing, production support, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Manage technical enhancements, ChangeMan to GitHub modernization efforts, platform currency and security activities, and technical debt reduction across assigned applications.
- Develop and maintain applications using mainframe programming languages and GitHub Copilot with human-in-the-loop processes.
- Coordinate with product owners, architects, business analysts, operations teams, and external partners to ensure successful delivery of requirements.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
- Strong mainframe application development experience including COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, or similar programming languages.
- Ability to work effectively across technical and business teams while managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Robust analytical and problem-solving skills with experience diagnosing complex production issues and remediating currency and security vulnerabilities.
- Experience participating in application modernization, legacy transformation, and application decommissioning initiatives.
- Effective program management, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting mainframe applications.
- Experience with AI-assisted software engineering tools, such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, or similar technologies.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Agile development methodologies, and DevOps practices.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor junior mainframe engineers, influence technical direction, and drive engineering best practices across teams.
- 3+ years of experience supporting Retail Life and Annuity products.
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 $105,000 - $140,000. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation and stock-based long-term incentives. 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!
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 #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 accommodations@metlife.com. 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.
General Information
Location
Cary, North Carolina
Alternative Location(s)
Posting Location: Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania
Posting Location: Bridgewater, New Jersey
* Posting Location: Greenville, South Carolina
Working Schedule
Full-Time
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Relocation Assistance Available
No
Posted Date
29-Jul-2026
Job ID
19332
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
The Senior Full Stack Software Engineer is responsible for modernizing, reimagining, supporting, and retiring mainframe applications across the MetLife Holdings Classic Agile Release Train. The ideal candidate will possess deep mainframe development and engineering capabilities with technologies including COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, or similar programming languages. This role plays a key part in maintaining the stability of applications, while advancing MetLife's modernization strategy through the transformation of legacy mainframe platforms, adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices, and retirement of aging technologies. Guided by our purpose – always with you, building a more confident future – and our New Frontier strategy focused on stronger growth, attractive returns and all-weather performance, this is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of MetLife Holdings technology and support the Annuity & Life Insurance Next Evolution migration.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the application modernization and decommissioning initiatives, including application rationalization, dependency analysis, migration activities, and retirement of legacy platforms while ensuring compliance with business, regulatory, and operational requirements.
- Create and maintain mainframe applications’ batch processes to support business functions, improve operational efficiency, and enable the reliable delivery of business capabilities.
- Oversee application quality, code reviews, automated testing, production support, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Manage technical enhancements, ChangeMan to GitHub modernization efforts, platform currency and security activities, and technical debt reduction across assigned applications.
- Develop and maintain applications using mainframe programming languages and GitHub Copilot with human-in-the-loop processes.
- Coordinate with product owners, architects, business analysts, operations teams, and external partners to ensure successful delivery of requirements.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
- Strong mainframe application development experience including COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, or similar programming languages.
- Ability to work effectively across technical and business teams while managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Robust analytical and problem-solving skills with experience diagnosing complex production issues and remediating currency and security vulnerabilities.
- Experience participating in application modernization, legacy transformation, and application decommissioning initiatives.
- Effective program management, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting mainframe applications.
- Experience with AI-assisted software engineering tools, such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, or similar technologies.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Agile development methodologies, and DevOps practices.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor junior mainframe engineers, influence technical direction, and drive engineering best practices across teams.
- 3+ years of experience supporting Retail Life and Annuity products.
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 $105,000 - $140,000. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation and stock-based long-term incentives. 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!
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 #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 accommodations@metlife.com. 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.
Developer Job Roles in North Carolina
See all 643+ Developer Jobs in North Carolina
Sign up for free to filter by visa type, set job alerts, and find employers with verified sponsorship history.
Search Developer Jobs in North CarolinaDeveloper Jobs in North Carolina: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies sponsor visas for developers in North Carolina?
Red Hat in Raleigh, Cisco and Lenovo in Research Triangle Park, and Fidelity Investments in Durham and Charlotte are among the most active H-1B sponsors for developer roles in North Carolina. Large healthcare IT firms like Epic and Labcorp also sponsor developers. DOL LCA disclosure data shows consistent filings from these employers for software engineer and developer titles each fiscal year.
Which visa types are most common for developer roles in North Carolina?
The H-1B is the most common visa for developers in North Carolina, as software development roles typically qualify as specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field. F-1 students from NC State, UNC, or Duke often work on OPT first, with employers transitioning them to H-1B. L-1 visas appear occasionally for developers transferring within multinational companies like Cisco or Lenovo.
Which cities in North Carolina have the most developer sponsorship jobs?
Raleigh and Durham, anchored by Research Triangle Park, account for the largest concentration of developer sponsorship jobs in the state. Charlotte is the second major hub, particularly for fintech and banking technology roles at firms like Honeywell and LendingTree. Cary and Morrisville, which sit within the Triangle metro, host significant tech campuses and contribute meaningfully to the sponsorship job count.
How to find developer visa sponsorship jobs in North Carolina?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically for visa sponsorship eligibility, making it practical to search for developer roles in North Carolina without sorting through positions that don't sponsor. You can filter by state and role type to surface active openings from Triangle-area tech firms, Charlotte fintech employers, and mid-market software companies across the state that have H-1B sponsorship history.
Are there any state-specific considerations for developers seeking sponsorship in North Carolina?
Research Triangle Park's density of tech employers means developers benefit from a competitive local market where H-1B sponsorship is relatively normalized. North Carolina's strong public university system, particularly NC State's computer science program, creates an active OPT-to-H-1B pipeline that many regional employers are experienced with navigating. Prevailing wage requirements for developer roles are determined by the DOL based on the specific job location, so wages in Raleigh and Charlotte may differ from smaller metros in the state.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored developer jobs in North Carolina?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.