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 exiting 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. We are looking for passionate, motivated individuals to join our team’s exciting journey as we grow, pioneer, and innovate.

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 ideation and brainstorming sessions to devise creative solutions. We need and value fresh ideas.
• 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

• Excellent verbal and written communication; effectively articulates technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes
• Familiarity with agile and DevOps principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and other approaches to accelerate delivery  
• Hands-on RDBMS experience (data modeling, analysis, programming, stored procedures)
• Good foundation in data structures, algorithms, and OO Design with rock-solid programming skills
• Collaborative attitude, willingness to work with team members; able to coach, participate in code reviews, share skills and methods. Also efficiently communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical collaborators
• Constantly learns from both success and failure and is keen on experimenting with emerging technologies
• Good organizational and problem-solving abilities that enable you to manage through creative abrasion

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

Values-first culture 

We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together. 

Boundless opportunity 

We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career. 

Continuous innovation 

We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services. 

Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 

We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives. 

Championing Corporate Citizenship 

We build a business that benefits all customers and has a positive social and environmental impact.

À propos de Manuvie et de John Hancock

La Société Financière Manuvie est un chef de file mondial des services financiers qui aide les gens à prendre leurs décisions plus facilement et à vivre mieux. Pour en apprendre plus à notre sujet, rendez vous à l’adresse www.manuvie.com.

Manuvie est un employeur qui souscrit au principe de l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi

Chez Manulife/John Hancock nous valorisons notre diversité. Nous nous efforçons d’attirer, de perfectionner et de maintenir une main d'oeuvre qui est aussi diversifiée que nos clients, et de favoriser la création d’un milieu de travail inclusif qui met à profit la diversité de nos employés et les compétences de chacun. Nous nous engageons à assurer un recrutement, une fidélisation, une promotion et une rémunération équitables, et nous administrons toutes nos pratiques et tous nos programmes sans discrimination en raison de la race, de l’ascendance, du lieu d’origine, de la couleur, de l’origine ethnique, de la citoyenneté, de la religion ou des croyances ou des convictions religieuses, du genre (y compris grossesse et affection liée à une grossesse), de l’orientation sexuelle, des caractéristiques génétiques, du statut d’ancien combattant, de l’identité de genre, de l’expression de genre, de l’âge, de l’état matrimonial, de la situation de famille, d’une invalidité ou de tout autre motif protégé par la loi applicable.

Nous nous sommes donné comme priorité d’éliminer les obstacles à l’accès égalitaire à l’emploi. C’est pourquoi un représentant des Ressources humaines collaborera avec les candidats qui demandent accommodement raisonnable pendant le recrutement. Tous les renseignements communiqués pendant le processus de demande d'accommodement seront stockés et utilisés conformément aux lois et aux politiques applicables de Manuvie. Pour demander une mesure d’accommodement raisonnable dans le cadre du recrutement, écrivez à recruitment@manulife.com.

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Si vous posez votre candidature à ce poste en dehors de la région principale, veuillez écrire à recruitment@manulife.com pour obtenir l’échelle salariale correspondant à votre région. Le salaire varie en fonction des conditions du marché local, de la géographie et de facteurs pertinents liés au poste telles les connaissances, les compétences, les qualifications, l’expérience et l’éducation ou la formation. Les employés ont également la possibilité de participer à des programmes de motivation et de toucher une rémunération incitative liée au rendement de l’entreprise et au rendement individuel.

Manuvie offre aux employés admissibles une vaste gamme d’avantages sociaux personnalisables, notamment une assurance soins médicaux, soins dentaires, santé mentale, soins de la vue, invalidité de courte et de longue durée, assurance vie et assurance DMA, assurance adoption, de maternité de substitution et de soins médicaux non urgents ainsi que des programmes d’aide aux employés et leur famille. Nous proposons également aux employés admissibles différents régimes d’épargne-retraite (y compris des régimes de rente et un programme international d’actionnariat assortie de cotisations patronales de contrepartie) ainsi que des ressources en matière d’éducation et de conseils financiers. Notre généreux programme de congés rémunérés au Canada comprend les jours fériés, les congés annuels, les congés personnels et les congés de maladie, et nous offrons toute la gamme des congés autorisés prévus par la loi. Si vous posez votre candidature à ce poste aux États-Unis, veuillez écrire à recruitment@manulife.com pour obtenir de plus amples renseignements sur les dispositions relatives aux congés rémunérés spécifiques aux États-Unis.