Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today.

Job Description

The opportunity

Manulife has a vision for a Global Data Strategy - unlike our competitors. By liberating and strengthening data capabilities we will enable deeper insights, better products, service, and design, including more effective business processes. The result will be outstanding experiences for our customers and inspiring challenges for our teams.

You will be part of Canada Retirement team within the established Global Wealth Asset Management group. And you will be reporting to the Director of Engineering. We are innovative, ambitious, and seek to embrace best standard methodologies. Are you a like-minded senior engineer with REST API experience? If so, let’s talk.

This is a position for a technically strong hands-on, collaborative, senior developer who can improve our existing software systems and craft exciting new API-based microservices. But there is more: you will need a solid understanding of distributed systems architecture using REST API, microservice, Kubernetes and Azure cloud technologies.

Soft Skill

• Excellent communication skills
• Experience providing hands on technical leadership for development of software systems
• Referenceable track record delivering enterprise-caliber initiatives
• Strong sense of ownership for what you do and contribute
• Demonstrated Agile understanding
• Experience and ability to work with both onshore and offshore team members

Hard skills

• 5+ years of experience in developing, improving, and operating microservices (REST API)
• Deep knowledge of Java, Object-Oriented Programming and Design Patterns
• Extensive work experience with Spring boot or JEE experience
• Hands-on experience delivering large-scale solutions using React, node.js, NextJS
• Experience using and developing REST API microservices
• Solid understanding of SQL/relational databases (like Oracle or MS SQL Server)
• Experience deploying applications in Docker or Kubernetes
• Knowledge of cloud technologies (Azure, AWS or GCP)
• Experience working with GIT source control
• Hands-on experience to use or create deployment pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Ability to design secure and performant distributed systems
• Review new code and assess existing source code
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in production environment
• Enforce application development standards and best practices
• Adhere to the agile methodologies Software Development Process
• Identify, analyze and improve existing software systems and processes
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent
• Preferable previous work experience in Financial Services company

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 stakeholders and has a positive social and environmental impact.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Asia, Canada, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total invested assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as ‘MFC’ on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under ‘945’ in Hong Kong.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact recruitment@manulife.com.

The annual base salary for this role is listed below.

Salary range is expected to be between

If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact recruitment@manulife.com for the salary range for your location. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact recruitment@manulife.com for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.