Are you looking for a supportive, collaborative workplace with great teams and inspiring leaders? You’ve come to the right place. We’re looking for ambitious people who share our values and want to make every day better for people around the world.
Our team helps to deliver and implement a great banking experience for our customers. It’s banking, the way it should be! At Manulife Bank, we believe banking products are an integral part of every Canadians financial plan. As one of Canada’s youngest banks, we are growing at an unprecedented rate and need people with the skills, energy, and drive to maintain our leadership position as an “advisors bank.” If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we’d like to hear from you to join our team’s exiting journey as we grow, pioneer, and innovate.
We are seeking an experienced and dedicated Back-End Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain robust software solutions. You will collaborate with multi-functional teams to deliver high-quality software products that meet our customer’s needs. You will work on new features and have an active voice in our digital solutions. Your positive approach, ability to be flexible to shifting priorities and creativity rooted in technology will help you navigate this exciting and growing business. We are looking for passionate, motivated individuals to join our team’s exciting journey as we grow, pioneer, and innovate.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

•Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
•A veteran developer with at least 5 years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on Full Stack development
•Good verbal and written communication; effectively articulates technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes
•Key technologies for this role include:
.JavaScript , Java, Spring Framework, SOA and Web Services
.Bruno , Postman, JMeter
.SQL , Cosmos, Mongo for databases,
.Jenkins , Snyk , SonarQube and Terraform for a DevOps chain
.GitHub for source control
.Jira for task management
•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)
•Good foundation in data structures, algorithms, and OO Design with rock-solid programming skills
•Collaborative attitude, willingness to work with team members; able to coach, participate in code reviews, share skills and methods. Also efficiently communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical collaborators
•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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

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

•Participate in ideation, and brainstorming sessions to devise creative and innovative Restful API solutions. We need and value fresh ideas!
•Design, code, unit test and integrate new features and functionality
•Collaborate with product partners, software engineers, quality engineers and IT business analysts to uncover opportunities to deliver new business value through software
•Write clean, maintainable code following industry standards for high-quality software maintenance.
•Build best in class services, APIs, and data solutions to drive business and technical outcomes
•Review current software framework to identify defects and opportunities to improve performance and stability
•Research technical strategies, third party tools, and current and new technologies to deal with emerging technical issues and improve development efficiency
•Use Gen AI for ensuring code quality. Creating agents and instructions to generate code, documents and support engineering practices.
•Apply disciplined coding practices to enable agility and delivery of high-quality code
•Promote agile principles and methodology
•Perform various investigative “Spikes” to mitigate technical uncertainty and risk
•Assist in the development of automated test harnesses as necessary to ensure delivery of high-quality code
•Update progress daily through the tracking tool (Jira) or Scrum/Kanban board
•Complete documentation as part of definition of done. e.g., deployment, maintenance, support and for business needs.