Lead Software Engineer
About The Position
Our teams are dedicated to supporting, enhancing, and discovering new ways to help our clients achieve lifetime financial security, live healthier lives, and connect with us. Through innovation and collaboration, we're striving to deliver best-in-class technology solutions for our digital clients. We’re building new Sun Life capabilities from the ground up, and as a Lead Software Engineer on our team, you’ll take ideas from napkin sketches to production systems, making the technical calls that matter while shaping how we build, ship, and learn. This is a hands-on leadership role for an engineer who thrives in ambiguity, moves quickly without sacrificing fundamentals, and cares deeply about creating products people use.
Requirements
- Minimum 8 years of progressive information technology experience with full application development life cycle and systems integration experience
- Strong experience with Spring Boot, Microservices and API Development
- Proficient with SOAP/XML, REST/JSON
- Experience using DevOps tools (e.g. BitBucket, CDD, Jenkins)
- Understanding of Javascript and jQuery
- Experience with MS 365
- Experience with ServiceNow (SNOW)
- Extensive multi-platform integration experience
- Accessibility, security, or compliance experience in regulated environments
- Cloud and delivery fluency (AWS, CI/CD, Containers, etc…)
- Proven ability to influence technical direction without relying on hierarchy.
- Experience mentoring engineers and raising the bar through example.
- Strong communication skills. You can explain complex systems simply and persuasively.
Responsibilities
- Own products end to end
- Break down product and technical initiatives into well-scoped, sequenced work items
- Define technical approaches, dependencies, and milestones before work starts
- Identify risks early and adjust scope or approach to protect delivery timelines
- Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance speed, quality, scalability, and business impact. Own outcomes. If something isn’t working, you fix it.
- Prototype quickly, launch MVPs, run experiments, and validate ideas with real users.
- Unblock others by resolving architectural or integration challenges
- Be the technical decision-maker when trade-offs are required
- Instrument everything, gather feedback, and iterate based on data.
- Guide the technical direction of the team.
- Establish lightweight architecture and engineering practices that enable speed without chaos.
- Provide clear technical leadership through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship.
- Work directly with product managers, designers, and business stakeholders to turn ambiguous problems into working software.
- Clearly communicate trade offs, risks, and timelines to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Work closely with control partners (IT Security, Legal, Risk, Compliance) to ensure compliance and security
- Champion modern engineering practices, tools, and technologies that give us a competitive edge.
- Build reusable components and technical foundations that accelerate future products.
Benefits
- Wellness programs that support the three pillars of your health – mental, physical, and financial
- The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
