Engineer; Digital Product Team

Location:

London, Watford, Bristol or Isle of Man (Hybrid working options available)

Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.

Are you an engineer who measures success by the difference you make to customers, not just the code you ship? We are seeking an exceptional Senior Engineer to play a key role in our dynamic cross-functional Digital Product Team, someone who thinks like a product person and cares deeply about customer outcomes and real-world impact. If you come from a genuine product background and are passionate about Digital products, technology, and driving meaningful outcomes, this is the role for you!

CLUK have ambitious plans to modernise their IT (Information Technology) estate, looking to leverage the cloud and automation at every opportunity and change how we fundamentally deliver solutions, transitioning from a Project to Product approach.

You will work at every stage of the product lifecycle, from discovery and design, through implementation and testing, to operational support, always with the customer and the outcome in mind.

As a Engineer you will have a strong background in full lifecycle software development, combined with a genuine product mindset. You care as much about why we are building something, and the difference it makes, as you do about how it is built.

• Designing, building, deploying, and supporting software across front and backend stacks
• Working closely with product managers, designers, and real users to understand problems deeply before jumping to solutions
• Configuring and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines and test automation to facilitate a seamless route to production for Azure hosted solutions
• Developing and supporting environments up to and including production to ensure reliability and quality
• Measuring the impact of what you build, and using that insight to help decide what to do next#

You will have a deeply customer-centric mindset: you get close to the people who use our products, validate ideas through research and experimentation, and judge success by customer and business outcomes rather than output. You are comfortable using data, analytics, and feedback loops to form hypotheses, run experiments, and make evidence-based decisions.

• Engage fully in the development lifecycle of applications and tools, contributing hands‑on from coding to reviewing and releasing to production. Partner closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders, and stay connected to real users, so that what we build genuinely solves their problems.
• Focus on outcomes, not just output. Help the team frame problems around customer and business value, validate ideas with experiments and feedback, and measure the impact of releases so we can learn quickly and continuously improve.
• Take ownership of personal learning paths, continually acquiring new skills to enhance team solutions and individual performance.
• Implement and refine Dev Ops practices, balancing responsibilities between development and operations, while actively reducing technical debt and enhancing the automation and reliability of applications.

• You come from a genuine product background: you have worked in product-led teams that own outcomes for real users, and you are motivated by the value you create rather than the volume you ship.
• You are genuinely customer‑centric: you seek direct contact with real users, use research, usability testing,…