Lead Software Engineer — Product Builder

You are as unique as your background experience and point of view. Here youll be encouraged empowered and challenged to be your best self. Youll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day youll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

Build products from zero. Ship to users. Own the outcome.

Were building new Sun Life capabilities from the ground up and as a Lead Software Engineer on our team youll take ideas from napkin sketches to production systems making the technical calls that matter while shaping how we build ship and learn.

This is a hands-on leadership role for an engineer who thrives in ambiguity moves quickly without sacrificing fundamentals and cares deeply about creating products people actually use.

What Youll Do

Own products end to end

Break down product and technical initiatives into well-scoped sequenced work items

Define technical approaches dependencies and milestones before work starts

Identify risks early and adjust scope or approach to protect delivery timelines

Make pragmatic technical decisions that balance speed quality scalability and business impact.

Own outcomes. If something isnt working you fix it.

Build fast learn faster

Prototype quickly launch MVPs run experiments and validate ideas with real users.

Unblock others by resolving architectural or integration challenges

Be the technical decision-maker when trade-offs are required

Instrument everything gather feedback and iterate based on data.

Lead by building

Write production quality code daily while guiding the technical direction of the team.

Establish lightweight architecture and engineering practices that enable speed without chaos.

Provide clear technical leadership through code reviews design discussions and mentorship.

Collaborate across disciplines

Work directly with product managers designers and business stakeholders to turn ambiguous problems into working software.

Clearly communicate trade offs risks and timelines to both technical and nontechnical audiences.

Shape the future

Champion modern engineering practices tools and technologies that give us a competitive edge.

Build reusable components and technical foundations that accelerate future products.

What You Bring

Engineering depth & versatility

710 years of experience building and shipping production software across the full application lifecycle.

Strong backend expertise with deep experience in Java Spring Boot and modern service based architectures.

Experience designing and building microservices APIs and distributed systems that scale.

Comfort moving across the stack when needed with working knowledge of modern frontend technologies (React JavaScript HTML/CSS).

Experience in startups accelerators or innovation labs.

Event driven systems or messaging platforms (e.g. Kafka)

Salesforce or enterprise platform integrations

Accessibility security or compliance experience in regulated environments

Product mindset

You think in terms of sales and business outcomes not just technical elegance.

Youre comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and adjusting as you learn.

You bias toward action experimentation and learning over perfection.

Cloud & delivery fluency

Hands on experience deploying and operating software in the cloud (AWS Azure).

Comfortable with CI/CD containers and shipping code to production frequently.

A solid handle on performance observability security and resilient system design.

Leadership & communication

Proven ability to influence technical direction without relying on hierarchy.

Experience mentoring engineers and raising the bar through example.

Strong communication skills. You can explain complex systems simply and persuasively.

Why This Role

High-Impact Work: Build products that directly shape Sun Lifes future with your code reaching real users quickly

Leadership Opportunity: Lead technical direction mentor others and shape the engineering culture of a growing team

Autonomy and Ownership: Make decisions drive solutions and see the direct impact of your work

Learn and Grow Fast: Exposure to new technologies business problems and the full product lifecycle in a compressed timeframe

Collaborative Innovative Culture: Work with passionate talented people who move fast and support each other.

Flexible Workstyle: Hybrid or office based as required by the role

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other addition to Base Pay eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

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We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business our Clients and you! Several work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing screening interview scheduling.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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