Back-end software engineer, banking technology

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 drive out and complete 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 exciting journey as we grow, pioneer, and innovate.

Job Description

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 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.

As a Back-end Software Engineer your responsibilities will include:

• 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 standards 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 methodologies 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 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.

Experience required for this role is as follows:

• 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.
• REST API.
• GitHub for source control.
• Jira for task management.
• Postman.
• Jenkins, SNYK, and SonarQube for a DevOps chain.

Nice to have technologies:

• 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 you?

• 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.
• Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance.
• Professional development and leadership opportunities.

Our commitment to you

We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together. We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career. We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services. We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives. We build a business that benefits all customers and has a positive social and environmental impact.

Region: Waterloo, Ontario

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Salary Range: $75,880.00 CAD - $140,920.00 CAD

If you are applying for this position outside the main region, please write to recruitment@manulife.com for the salary range corresponding to your region.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide range of customizable benefits, including medical care, dental care, mental health, vision care, short and long-term disability, life insurance, and various employee assistance programs.