Backend Software Engineer, Banking Technology

at  Manulife

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.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Join our Banking Technology Engineering team!

HOW WILL YOU CONTRIBUTE:

We are seeking an experienced and dedicated Software 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. 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.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 5+ years of back-end development experience
• Key technologies for this role include:
• Proficiency in C# .NET, Node.js/React, Oracle Databases, Azure DB, JavaScript, AKS & Azure cloud services
• Strong Data analytics (Data validation & classification)
• CA Workload

• Participate in ideation, and brainstorming sessions to devise creative and innovative solutions. We need and value fresh ideas!
• Design, code, unit test and integrate new features and functionality.
• Collaborate with technical program managers, software engineers, quality engineers and IT business analysts to uncover opportunities to deliver new business value through software.
• Maintain and ensure high quality software by writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code that adheres to industry practices and coding standards, with accountability for production reliability and usage.
• Build best in class applications, APIs, and data solutions to drive business and technical outcomes.
• Review current software framework to identify defects and opportunities to improve performance and stability.
• Proficiency in testing and debugging back-end code to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Understanding of standard processes for securing back-end systems, including authentication, authorization, data encryption, and protection against common security threats.
• Ability to create and maintain robust and efficient application programming interfaces (APIs) for communication between different software systems.
• Research technical strategies, third party tools, and current and new technologies to deal with emerging technical issues and improve development efficiency.
• 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.
• Participate in the weekly meetings to refine the backlog, including providing initial estimates.
• Mentor other junior developers on the team.
• Build interpersonal relationships by working closely with the Technical Program Manager, Quality Engineers, and Analysts in a globally distributed environment.
• 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.