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Our team helps to deliver and implement a great banking experience for our customers. Its 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 Canadas 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 wed like to hear from you to join our teams exiting journey as we grow pioneer and innovate.
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 software products that meet our customers needs. You will work on new features and have an active voice in our digital solutions. 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 teams exciting journey as we grow pioneer and innovate.
Position Responsibilities:
Participate in ideation and brainstorming sessions to devise creative and innovative Restful API solutions. We need and value fresh ideas!
Design code unit test and integrate new features and functionality
Collaborate with product partners software engineers quality engineers and IT business analysts to uncover opportunities to deliver new business value through software
Write clean maintainable code following industry standards for high-quality software maintenance.
Build best in class services APIs and data solutions to drive business and technical outcomes
Review current software framework to identify defects and opportunities to improve performance and stability
Research technical strategies third party tools and current and new technologies to deal with emerging technical issues and improve development efficiency
Use Gen AI for ensuring code quality. Creating agents and instructions to generate code documents and support engineering practices.
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
Assist in the development of automated test harnesses as necessary to ensure delivery of high-quality code
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.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience)
A veteran developer with at least 5 years of professional experience in software development with a focus on Full Stack development
Good verbal and written communication; effectively articulates technical vision possibilities and outcomes
Key technologies for this role include:
.JavaScript Java Spring Framework SOA and Web Services
.Bruno Postman JMeter
.SQL Cosmos Mongo for databases
.Jenkins Snyk SonarQube and Terraform for a DevOps chain
.GitHub for source control
.Jira for task management
Familiarity with Agile and DevOps principles test-driven development continuous integration and other approaches to accelerate the delivery of new features
You have hands on experience with progressive architectural styles such as microservices
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
Preferred Qualifications:
Agile team experience where responsibilities include the planning and delivery of user stories in an Agile SCRUM environment
Banking Industry knowledge/experience
When you join our team:
Well empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
Well recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
As part of our distributed team well support you in shaping the future you want to see.
About Manulife and John Hancock
Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us visit 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 .
Referenced Salary Location
Toronto OntarioWorking Arrangement
Salary range is expected to be between
$75880.00 CAD - $140920.00 CADIf you are applying for this role outside of the primary location please contact 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 for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.
Full-Time