Back-End Software Engineer
About The Position
As a 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.
Requirements
- 5+ years back-end development, designing, implementing solutions in Databricks, Pyspark (Python API), 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 DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub 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
Nice To Haves
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Benefits
- health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans.
- various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions)
- financial education and counseling resources.
- generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days
- full range of statutory leaves of absence.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
