Senior Software Engineer

Manulife John Hancock; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Manulife John Hancock is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead end-to-end design of digital apps, APIs, and platform enhancements in a Malaysia-based role. You will translate requirements into scalable solutions, develop architecture artifacts, and ensure governance and security compliance.

You will guide a small engineering team, perform design reviews, and align technical choices with business outcomes, while fostering learning and engineering discipline.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5-8 years of relevant software development experience across front-end, back-end, integration, and database technologies.
• Proven experience in solution design, system architecture.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution design for digital applications, integrations, APIs, and platform enhancements.
• Translate business and functional requirements into scalable, secure, maintainable technical solutions.
• Develop and maintain solution architecture documents, system context and integration flows, API specs, data models, and detailed designs.
• Evaluate technical options, identify trade-offs, and recommend approaches aligned with standards.
• Ensure solutions comply with cybersecurity, data protection, regulatory, resilience, and governance requirements.
• Facilitate technical design reviews and architecture walkthroughs with stakeholders.
• Lead and mentor a team of 3-5 engineers through delivery lifecycle.
• Provide technical direction, coaching, and timely resolution of blockers.
• Allocate work based on priorities, capacity, and dependencies.
• Conduct peer reviews, code reviews, and quality checks to maintain standards.

Skills

Solution design

System architecture

Full-stack development

Angular

React

TypeScript

JavaScript

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Katalon

Selenium

Playwright

Postman

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / IT / IS

Tools

Katalon

Selenium

Playwright

Postman

Job description

Solution Design and Architecture

• Lead end-to-end solution design for digital applications, integrations, APIs, and platform enhancements.


• Translate business and functional requirements into scalable, secure, maintainable, and cost-effective technical solutions.


• Develop and maintain solution architecture documents, system context and integration flows, API specifications, data models, and detailed technical designs.


• Evaluate technical options, identify trade-offs, and recommend solution approaches aligned with enterprise standards and business outcomes.


• Ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data protection, regulatory, resilience, and technology governance requirements.


• Facilitate technical design reviews and architecture walkthroughs with relevant stakeholders.

Technical Leadership and Team Guidance

• Lead, guide, and mentor a team of 3-5 software engineers throughout the project delivery lifecycle.


• Provide technical direction, coaching, development support, and timely resolution of engineering blockers.


• Allocate technical work based on delivery priorities, team capacity, skills, and project dependencies.


• Conduct peer reviews, code reviews, design reviews, and quality checks to maintain engineering standards.


• Promote accountability, collaboration, knowledge sharing, continuous learning, and engineering discipline.


• Develop team capability through mentoring, technical workshops, reusable engineering assets, and succession planning.

IT Project Delivery

• Lead technical delivery from requirements analysis and solution design through development, testing, deployment, and production stabilization.


• Plan and coordinate engineering activities to meet agreed scope, schedule, quality, security, and business objectives.


• Manage multiple projects, enhancements, defects, and technical workstreams while maintaining delivery transparency.


• Identify and proactively manage technical risks, dependencies, resource constraints, delivery issues, and technical debt.


• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Architects, Quality Engineers, Infrastructure, Security, Operations, vendors, and business stakeholders.


• Provide clear progress updates, technical recommendations, risk assessments, and escalation support to project and technology leadership.


• Support release planning, implementation, rollback readiness, post-release validation, and production stabilization.

Full-Stack Software Engineering

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain secure enterprise web applications across front-end and back-end components.


• Build responsive user interfaces using Angular, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, or comparable technologies.


• Develop backend services, RESTful APIs, integrations, and business logic using Java, Spring Boot, or equivalent technologies.


• Design and optimize databases, queries, data models, and integration patterns.


• Develop reusable components and services that improve maintainability, consistency, performance, and delivery speed.


• Troubleshoot complex application, integration, performance, and production issues and lead root-cause analysis.

AI-Assisted Development and Testing

• Champion the responsible use of approved AI-powered tools, including GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, or equivalent enterprise platforms, to improve engineering productivity and software quality.


• Apply AI assistance to solution exploration, coding, refactoring, documentation, test generation, troubleshooting, and defect analysis.


• Establish practical team guidance for reviewing, testing, and validating AI-generated outputs before implementation.


• Ensure AI-assisted engineering complies with secure coding, data protection, intellectual property, privacy, and Responsible AI requirements.


• Drive AI-assisted and automated testing practices covering unit, integration, API, regression, and selected end-to-end scenarios.


• Improve test coverage and reusable test assets through tools such as Katalon, Selenium, Playwright, Postman, or equivalent frameworks

DevOps, Security, and Engineering Governance

• Support CI/CD pipeline implementation, automated quality gates, and reliable deployment practices.


• Apply secure coding, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, logging, monitoring, and operational readiness practices.


• Ensure adherence to SDLC, code review, testing, release management, change management, audit, and compliance controls.


• Maintain technical documentation, deployment guides, support runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials.


• Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, platform reliability, development efficiency, and technical debt management.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related discipline.


• Minimum 5-8 years of relevant software development experience across front-end, back-end, integration, and database technologies.


• Proven experience in solution design, system archit