Engineer (Digital Product Team)

Canada Life; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Canada Life UK is seeking an Engineer with a genuine product mindset to join our Digital Product Team. You will drive customer outcomes across the full software lifecycle, from discovery and design through implementation and testing to production support.

You will work within a cloud-focused Azure stack, building front- and back-end solutions, and collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and real users to validate ideas and measure impact using product metrics.

Qualifications

• You come from a genuine product background and have worked in product-led teams that own outcomes for real users.
• You are customer-centric and use research, usability testing and experiments to validate ideas.
• You think in terms of impact and outcomes, with comfort using product metrics and analytics.
• You collaborate with product managers and designers and engage in discovery and shaping what we build.
• You have experience with modern component-oriented front-end applications and solid C# skills.

Responsibilities

• Engage in the full development lifecycle from discovery to production support.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers and real users to understand problems deeply.
• Configure and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines and test automation for Azure-hosted solutions.
• Develop and support environments up to production to ensure reliability and quality.
• Measure impact of what you build and use data to guide next steps.

Skills

Product mindset

Customer-centric

Product metrics

A/B testing

Discovery

UX

Front-end development

C#

Tools

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

Test automation

Job description

Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation. Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues. Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.

Job Summary

Are you an engineer who measures success by the difference you make to customers, not just the code you ship? We are seeking an exceptional Engineer to play a key role in our dynamic cross‑functional Digital Product Team, someone who thinks like a product person and cares deeply about customer outcomes and real‑world impact. If you come from a genuine product background and are passionate about Digital products, technology, and driving meaningful outcomes, this is the role for you! CLUK have ambitious plans to modernise their IT (Information Technology) estate, looking to leverage the cloud and automation at every opportunity and change how we fundamentally deliver solutions, transitioning from a Project to Product approach. You will work at every stage of the product lifecycle, from discovery and design, through implementation and testing, to operational support, always with the customer and the outcome in mind.

Job Purpose

As a Engineer you will have a strong background in full lifecycle software development, combined with a genuine product mindset. You care as much about why we are building something, and the difference it makes, as you do about how it is built. Designing, building, deploying, and supporting software across front and backend stacks Working closely with product managers, designers, and real users to understand problems deeply before jumping to solutions Configuring and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines and test automation to facilitate a seamless route to production for Azure hosted solutions Developing and supporting environments up to and including production to ensure reliability and quality Measuring the impact of what you build, and using that insight to help decide what to do next You will have a deeply customer‑centric mindset: you get close to the people who use our products, validate ideas through research and experimentation, and judge success by customer and business outcomes rather than output. You are comfortable using data, analytics, and feedback loops to form hypotheses, run experiments, and make evidence‑based decisions.

Duties/Responsibilities

Engage fully in the development lifecycle of applications and tools, contributing hands‑on from coding to reviewing and releasing to production. Partner closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders, and stay connected to real users, so that what we build genuinely solves their problems. Focus on outcomes, not just output. Help the team frame problems around customer and business value, validate ideas with experiments and feedback, and measure the impact of releases so we can learn quickly and continuously improve. Take ownership of personal learning paths, continually acquiring new skills to enhance team solutions and individual performance. Implement and refine DevOps practices, balancing responsibilities between development and operations, while actively reducing technical debt and enhancing the automation and reliability of applications.

Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

You come from a genuine product background: you have worked in product‑led teams that own outcomes for real users, and you are motivated by the value you create rather than the volume you ship. You are genuinely customer‑centric: you seek direct contact with real users, use research, usability testing, and experiments to validate ideas, and measure success through customer outcomes such as adoption, retention, satisfaction, and task success. You think in terms of impact and outcomes: you are comfortable with product metrics and analytics, forming hypotheses, running experiments (for example A/B tests), and using evidence to decide what to build next. You collaborate naturally with product managers and designers, and you are happy getting involved in discovery and in shaping what we build, not just how we build it. You have developed modern component‑oriented front‑end applications using frameworks and libraries and have a good appreciation of UX (User eXperience). Proficiency in a variety of development technologies, languages, design patterns, and tooling. Our current tech stack is primarily Microsoft / Azure focused; solid C# is necessary. Advocate of key principles such as SOLID and CLEA