AI-Driven Software Engineer (End-to-End, Microservices)

Sun Life

Toronto

Hybrid

CAD 90,000 - 140,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Sun Life is seeking a hands-on engineer to own the full product lifecycle from concept to launch. You will write production code, make pragmatic architecture decisions, and ship working software quickly in a regulated environment while guiding the team with technical leadership.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, building scalable microservices, and cloud deployment across AWS/Azure, with CI/CD and strong focus on reliability, security, and observability.

Qualifications

  • 7–10 years of hands‑on engineering experience.
  • Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted development tools as part of day‑to‑day software development, with strong practices for prompting, code review, testing, security, and validating AI-generated code.
  • Experience designing and building microservices, APIs, and distributed systems that scale.

Responsibilities

  • Own products end‑to‑end from concept to launch, writing production code and shipping solutions.
  • Prototype quickly, launch MVPs, run experiments, and validate ideas with real users.
  • Provide technical leadership through code reviews, design discussions, and mentoring.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to turn ambiguities into working software.

Skills

AI-assisted development
Microservices
Distributed systems
Cloud computing
CI/CD
Code reviews
Mentoring engineers
Strong communication
Product mindset

Tools

AWS
Azure
Docker
Kubernetes
LLMs

Job description

Sun Life is seeking a hands-on engineer to own the full product lifecycle from concept to launch. You will write production code, make pragmatic architecture decisions, and ship working software quickly in a regulated environment while guiding the team with technical leadership.

The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, building scalable microservices, and cloud deployment across AWS/Azure, with CI/CD and strong focus on reliability, security, and observability.

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