We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today. 

Hybrid

Job Description

Join our Banking Technology Engineering Team!

Our customer is at the focus of everything we do, and millions of end users rely on our products daily. We believe in the value of empowering engineers with the resources to tackle critical problems for the business, which is why we need you!

We are seeking a dedicated Tech Lead/Engineer to design, develop, and maintain robust software solutions. You will collaborate with multi-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions that meet our customer’s needs, while maintaining the health of our applications.

How will you contribute:

• Designing, coding, unit testing and integrating new features and functionality as defined by the Product Owner and team.
• Applying creative problem solving that bring software designs to life.
• Focal point for design decisions, and the primary liaison with other squads/Arts and enablement teams.
• Supporting the squad in identifying interdependencies, providing estimates, profiling technical risks, and documenting technical debt. 
• Participating in building out technology roadmaps to ensure best in class applications, APIs, and data solutions to drive outcomes.
• Reviewing current software framework to identify defects and opportunities to improve performance and stability.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers, fostering their growth and development.
• Researching technical strategies, tools and new technologies to deal with emerging technical issues and improve development efficiency.
• Applying coding practices to enable agility and delivery of high-quality code.
• Promoting agile principles and methodology.
• Participating in conceptualisation and brainstorming sessions to devise creative and innovative digital solutions. We need and value fresh ideas!
• Updating progress daily through the tracking tool (Jira) or Scrum/Kanban board.
• Participating in meetings to assist the Product Owner and squad leads to refine the Product Backlog including providing initial estimates.

Preferred skills and experience:

• You are a senior developer with a strong capability towards back-end development with a minimum of 7+ years of experience preferred.
• You understand the eco-system of front-end to back-end to make suggestions to our technical strategy to iteratively deliver value and modernize our tech stack.
• Comfortable with legacy C#.Net or Java and experienced in new stack Node/React as we continuously transform and modernize our suite of applications.
• You understand systems development methodology, able to experiment with emerging technologies and understand how they impact what comes next.
• Familiarity with agile and DevOps principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and other approaches to accelerate the delivery of new features.
• You have hands on experience with progressive architectural styles such as microservices.
• Hands-on RDBMS experience (data modeling, analysis, programming, stored procedures)
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and OO Design with excellent programming skills.
• Collaborative to work with team members; able to coach, participate in code reviews, share skills and methods.
• Constantly learns from both success and failure and is keen on experimenting with emerging technologies.
• Good organizational and problem-solving abilities that enable you to manage through creative abrasion.
• Good verbal and written communication; effectively articulates technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes.

Key technologies and tools for this role include:

• Proficiency in C# .NET, Node.js/React, Oracle Databases, Azure DB, JavaScript, AKS, and Azure cloud services.
• CA Workload
• Strong Data analytics (Data validation & Classification)
• Java/J2EE for application development
• Rest API
• Jira and Confluence for task and content management
• Jenkins, Snyk, and SonarQube for a DevOps chain,
• GitHub for source control
• Other: Progress/SQL Database

Additional attributes that are nice to have:

• Agile team experience where responsibilities include the planning and delivery of user stories in an Agile SCRUM environment
• Banking Industry knowledge/experience

What can we offer:

• A competitive salary and benefits packages.
• A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills.
• A focus on growing your career path with us.
• Learning opportunities through Manulife University
• Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance.
• Professional development and leadership opportunities.

Our commitment :

Values-first culture

We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together.

Boundless opportunity

We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career.

Continuous innovation

We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services.

Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.

Championing Corporate Citizenship

We build a business that benefits all partners and has a positive social and environmental impact.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Asia, Canada, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under ‘945’ in Hong Kong.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law. 

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact [email protected].

The annual base salary for this role is listed below.

Waterloo, Ontario

Salary range is expected to be between

$92,190.00 CAD - $171,210.00 CAD

If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact [email protected] for the salary range for your location. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including 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. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact [email protected] for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.