Staff Engineer

Sun Life•Waterloo, ON

3d•CA$125,000 - CA$195,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Prospr is Sun Life's digital front door for Canadians — startup velocity inside a Fortune 500. We're revolutionizing how Canadians access insurance and wealth solutions by building a platform that lets people buy products the way they want to: online in minutes or virtually via a team of trusted, licensed Advisors. We move fast. We test ideas in production. We use AI to cut friction and ship the experience customers expect. For candidates with these preferred skills, exceptions beyond the usual salary range below may be possible. The Role You are the fixer. The unblocker. The engineer people pull in when things get messy. As Staff Engineer on Prospr you take on the hardest problems and get them shipped. You turn fuzzy ideas into working software. You bridge architecture and production. You set the bar for quality and pace across squads by prototyping fast, diagnosing incidents, managing technical debt and making tough calls.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software engineering experience with senior level ownership and cross team influence
Hands-on lead level expertise with Java, React (or other similar modern Javascript) and enterprise integrations.
Salesforce experience would be an asset.
Technical breadth and credibility to challenge architecture guide technical strategy and set standards for quality reliability and maintainability
Proven success owning end to end delivery for customer facing digital products from planning to build to release to operate with measurable outcomes
Experience setting and running an engineering operating cadence across prioritization, planning, execution, dependencies quality and incident learnings
Experience partnering with Product, Design, and senior stakeholders to navigate trade-offs risk and timelines in a complex environment
Strong track record developing talent through mentoring pairing and raising the technical bar across squads

Nice To Haves

Lead engineer from a tech startup or digital product company
Deep technical expert who can jump across backend frontend integrations data and AI and keep learning
Hands-on builder who can whip up prototypes and debug production systems
Strong technical communicator who can explain complex concepts to Product, Architects, and leadership
Comfortable with ambiguity and able to turn emerging requirements into shippable plans
Startup mindset you ship fast without breaking the basics
Comfortable influencing without authority
Continuous learner in an ever-changing technology landscape

Responsibilities

Ship fast with guardrails that keep quality high, tech debt low, and systems up
Design the path for big bets and land them in production
Advise Engineering and Product leaders with options trade-offs and recommendations
Collaborate with Architects—make sure designs actually work in production, not just on whiteboards
Rapid prototyping—validate approaches before squads commit sprint cycles
Coach senior engineers and raise the bar across the team
Unblock squads—when they're stuck on hard problems (security, integrations, performance, architecture)
Influence technical direction to cut rework speed up decisions and keep releases moving
Bridge architecture and reality—ensure designs survive contact with production

Benefits

In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance.
Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.
We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you!
Several work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.
We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.
Make life brighter
Working in Tech, you will have the opportunity to have widespread impact across all levels of the organization.
By helping us find better and smarter ways of doing things, you will make a positive impact in the lives of our clients and colleagues and contribute to our meaningful purpose.
Shape the future
In Tech at Sun Life, you will be at the forefront of our transformation.
You will apply your curious mind, bold thinking, and creativity to evolve our offering and processes and shape the future of our industry.
You will be empowered to push boundaries and explore new ways of doing things to drive positive change.
Your unique perspective is exactly what we’re looking for.
Join a top employer for a brighter future.