Senior back-end software engineer

As a Senior Back-end Software Engineer within Group Functions Technology, you will be a key member building technology which supports our global operations. The ideal candidate has a curious mind, a thirst for knowledge, a desire to understand how technology works and a passion for high quality software engineering. You have solid software engineering fundamentals and understand the importance of implementing standard processes such as secure coding, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and test automation.

You enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and develop new ones so you can make meaningful contributions to Manulife's success.

• Work in an Agile team to create, deliver and maintain high-quality, performant, and secure solutions.
• Use a proactive approach to common challenges and continually research industry standard methodologies in software development.
• Assess the target (future) state of the organization’s technology needs to achieve the business objectives.
• Provide technical leadership across the software development lifecycle, ensuring architectural consistency and engineering excellence.
• Lead the design and review of software systems, making high-level decisions on architecture and technology choices.
• Build the solutions to close identified gaps and improve our systems.
• Pair program with other software engineers or AI tools to learn, coach, and mentor.
• Consume and contribute to open source and inner source projects.
• Help us build up our performance and reliability story using tools like New Relic, Dynatrace, and Moogsoft for performance monitoring, end-to-end logging, and other telemetry data.
• Learn and become proficient in various technologies as required.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field. An advanced graduate degree or equivalent experience is preferred but not mandatory.
• 8+ years back end development, designing, implementing solutions in Databricks, Python, Azure Data Factory and SQL Server
• 5+ years of experience developing cloud-native solutions on Azure
• 5+ years working with solutions deployment via CI/CD using Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, or similar technologies
• Proven experience in designing software systems and documenting the design using tools such as UML
• An approach dedicated to finding solutions, with the ability to make sound professional decisions
• Ability to make complex information accessible and communicate easily within distributed teams
• Familiarity with Java and Java Spring Boot is an asset

• Experience in Power BI is an asset.
• Experience in the financial industry (a plus).
• Proven track record of practical, thoughtful problem solving.
• Experience with JavaScript, React, and/or NodeJS would be an asset.

• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
• As part of our distributed team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

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