CIAM Full‑Stack Engineer • React/Node – Hybrid

Manulife; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

Disability and life insurance

401(k) retirement plans

Paid time off (11 holidays, 3 personal

Vacation (150 hours) and sick time

Job summary

Manulife is seeking an experienced CIAM software engineer to build and support customer identity and access management across digital channels. You will develop user-facing features in React and backend services with Node.js, applying OIDC/OAuth2, SAML, and JWT standards to secure registrations, sign-in, MFA, and account recovery.

You will work with product, design, and security teams to translate requirements into reliable, maintainable solutions, contributing to API contracts, testing, and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience building or supporting production web applications.
• Hands-on experience with React and modern JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Experience building backend services or APIs with Node.js.
• Experience designing or integrating REST APIs and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of identity and access management concepts (OIDC/OAuth2, SAML, JWT).
• Familiarity with authentication, authorization, MFA, and secure coding practices.
• Experience with source control, CI/CD workflows, and testing.
• Experience deploying cloud-based applications; Azure is a plus.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/engineering or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain full-stack CIAM capabilities using React, Node.js, and related technologies.
• Build accessible, responsive customer experiences for registration, sign-in, MFA, consent, profile management, and account recovery.
• Develop and maintain APIs and backend services that support identity journeys and integrations.
• Integrate applications with CIAM platforms using OIDC/OAuth2, SAML, SCIM, and JWT.
• Implement authentication, authorization, token handling, session management, and logout flows securely.
• Collaborate with product owners, designers, architects, and security teams to refine requirements.
• Contribute to API contracts, development standards, and reusable components.
• Apply secure coding practices and address vulnerabilities via reviews and testing.
• Build and maintain unit/integration/end-to-end tests; support CI/CD pipelines.
• Support cloud deployments, preferably on Azure; use logs and metrics for reliability.
• Participate in production support, incident response, and continuous improvement.

Skills

React

JavaScript/TypeScript

Node.js

REST APIs

OIDC/OAuth2

SAML

JWT

MFA

Secure coding

CI/CD

Azure (cloud)

Troubleshooting

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

GitHub

Job description

Manulife is seeking an experienced CIAM software engineer to build and support customer identity and access management across digital channels. You will develop user-facing features in React and backend services with Node.js, applying OIDC/OAuth2, SAML, and JWT standards to secure registrations, sign-in, MFA, and account recovery.

You will work with product, design, and security teams to translate requirements into reliable, maintainable solutions, contributing to API contracts, testing, and