Senior Back-End Software Engineer

As a Senior Back-end Software Engineer within Group Functions Technology you will be a key member building technology which supports our global operations. The ideal candidate has a curious mind a thirst for knowledge a desire to understand how technology works and a passion for high quality software engineering. You have solid software engineering fundamentals and understand the importance of implementing standard processes such as secure coding microservices CI/CD pipelines and test automation. You enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and develop new ones so you can make meaningful contributions to Manulifes success.

Position Responsibilities:

• Work in an Agile team to create deliver and maintain high-quality performant and secure solutions.
• Use a proactive approach to common challenges and continually research industry standard methodologies in software development.
• Assess the target (future) state of the organizations technology needs to achieve the business objectives.
• Provide technical leadership across the software development lifecycle ensuring architectural consistency and engineering excellence.
• Lead the design and review of software systems making high-level decisions on architecture and technology choices.
• Build the solutions to close identified gaps and improve our systems.
• Pair program with other software engineers or AI tools to learn coach and mentor.
• Consume and contribute to open source and inner source projects.
• Help us build up our performance and reliability story using tools like New Relic Dynatrace and Moogsoft for performance monitoring end-to-end logging and other telemetry data.
• Learn and become proficient in various technologies as required.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field. An advanced graduate degree or equivalent experience is preferred but not mandatory.
• 8 years back end development designing implementing solutions in Databricks Python Azure Data Factory and SQL Server
• 5 years of experience developing cloud-native solutions on Azure
• 5 years working with solutions deployment via CI/CD using Azure DevOps Jenkins GitHub Actions or similar technologies
• Proven experience in designing software systems and documenting the design using tools such as UML
• An approach dedicated to finding solutions with the ability to make sound professional decisions
• Ability to make complex information accessible and communicate easily within distributed teams
• Familiarity with Java and Java Spring Boot is an asset

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Power BI is an asset.
• Experience in the financial industry (a plus).
• Proven track record of practical thoughtful problem solving.
• Experience with JavaScript React and/or NodeJS would be an asset.

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.

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If 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.