Job Opportunities: React / PHP Web Application Developer (9234)
Job Opportunities: React / PHP Web Application Developer (9234)
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Job Description
Job ID:9234
Working Business Language: This role is considered a headoffice role and will be required to communicate with internal stakeholders across Canada where the primary business language utilized is English.
Salary: At Wawanesa salary is only one component of a holistic comprehensive and competitive offering that we provide to our employees. In addition to salary fulltime and parttime permanent employees are eligible for an annual bonus plan leave of absence topup programs and provided with generous vacation time personal days premium free benefits and pension plan.
The salary offered for this role is determined with consideration to various factors including but not limited to: your work location local labour market conditions external market salary data internal pay equity and the knowledge skills experience and anticipated proficiency in the role. The salary offered is estimated to be within the following range: $85 000 $120 000. Candidates with salary expectations outside of the range are still encouraged to apply.
About Us
At Wawanesa were proud to offer a hybrid work environment that offers flexibility to our employees in balancing inoffice (2 days per week OR 15 hours per week in a Wawanesa office) and remote may work from any of the following locations: Winnipeg MB; Wawanesa MB;Vancouver BC; Calgary AB; Edmonton AB; Lethbridge AB; Toronto ON; Kitchener ON; Thunder Bay ON; Ottawa ON; Montreal QC; Moncton NB; Dartmouth; NS
The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company (Wawanesa Mutual) founded in 1896 is one of Canadas largest mutual insurers with over $3.5 billion in annual revenue and assets of $10 billion (CAD). Wawanesa Mutual with its National Headquarters in Winnipeg is the parent company of Wawanesa Life which provides life insurance products and services throughout Canada and Western Financial Group which distributes personal and business insurance across Canada. Wawanesa proudly serves more than 1.7 million members in Canada and we are home to more than 3600 employees distributed across the Canadian regions and communities where we operate. We give back to organizations that strengthen communities donating more than $3.5 million annually to charitable organizations including over $2 million annually in support of people on the front lines of climate change. To learn more visit .
We are currently looking for dedicated driven and enthusiastic individuals who thrive in an environment that welcomes change and are looking for an opportunity for diverse experience and advancement on a growing team.
Job Overview
Working under moderate supervision this job will be part of our Web Team and contributes to Wawanesa success by maintaining supporting and enhancing business systems and applications.
The ideal candidate will enjoy working in a small agile scrum team model that facilitates rapid design development and implementation of changes that embodies a passion for continuous improvement and wholeteam quality. You will have experience with programming languages and development platforms such as PHP React.
Job Responsibilities
- Design develop and test software.
- Prepare technical specifications from requirements.
- Maintain the operation of business systems and applications.
- Assist solution analysts with clarifying business request details.
- Diagnose troubleshoot and resolve application incidents.
- Participate in planning activities.
- Estimate and track progress of assigned work.
- Create and update relevant documentation.
- Follow and contribute to improving established practices processes and guidelines.
- Keep current with relevant technologies.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Completion of Postsecondary degree or diploma in software development
- Two to four years of practical experience performing an application development role building software using current programming languages/techniques and working with relational database systems and structured query languages or equivalent knowledge/experience.
- Experience developing user interfaces with React and developing APIs (PHP).
- Detail oriented with analytical and problemsolving skills to recognize and identify issues and take proper action to resolve them.
- Effective communication skills with the ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner with style fitting for the audience and message.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment by making quality contributions and supporting fellow team members. Ideal candidate is a team player
- Effective organizational skills with the ability to selfmanage a fluctuating workload with various situations and changing priorities.
- Ability to provide timely responses via Instant Messaging platform.
- Possesses a willingness to learn while keeping abreast of developments in field and have the ability to apply learning to new situations.
- Experience with the following is considered an asset:
- POSIX/Linux/Unix systems.
- modernizing custom frameworks.
- using software development tools such as JIRA Confluence Source Code Management (Git).
- Amazon Web Services (EC2 CodeCommit CodeBuild CloudFormation).
- Familiarity with Windows; MySQL; Microsoft SQL Server is considered an asset.
- Certifications in relevant technology is considered an asset.
- Knowledge and experience in the Insurance industry is considered an asset.
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Wawanesa is proud to be one of Manitobas Top Employers a Kincentric Best Employer in Canada and a Forbes Best Employer in Canada recognizing an exceptional place to work!
Diversity Equity Inclusion& Belonging
At Wawanesa we are committed to Diversity Equity Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) and believe that our strength lies in the diversity of our people this is supported by having a representative workforce.
We welcome applications from all qualified candidates including racialized persons women Indigenous Peoples persons with disabilities members of the 2SLGBTQIA community genderdiverse and neurodiverse individuals and anyone who can contribute to the further diversification of thought and ideas.
We aim to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all candidates. If you require accommodations during any stage of the recruitment process please reach out in confidence to .
All Wawanesa job applicants are subject to Wawanesas .
Employment Type
Full Time
