Staff Engineer
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11 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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:
Prospris Sun Lifes digital front door for Canadians startup velocity inside a Fortune 500.Wererevolutionizing how Canadians access insurance and wealth solutions by building a platform that lets people buy products the way they want to: online in minutes orvirtually viaa team of trusted licensed Advisors.
We move fast. We test ideas in production. We use AI to cut friction and ship the experience customers expect.
Please note : For candidates with these preferred skills exceptions beyond the usual salary range below may be possible.
The Role
You are the fixer. Theunblocker. The engineer people pull in when things get messy.
As Staff Engineer onProspryou take on the hardest problems and get them shipped. You turn fuzzy ideas into working software. You bridge architecture and production. You set the bar for quality and pace across squads by prototyping fastdiagnosing incidentsmanaging technicaldebtand making tough calls.
What Youll Do
Ship fast with guardrails that keep quality high tech debt lowand systems up
Design the path for big bets and land them in production
Advise Engineering and Product leaders with optionstrade-offsand recommendations
Collaborate with Architectsmake sure designsactually workin production not just on whiteboards
Rapid prototypingvalidateapproaches before squads commit sprint cycles
Coach senior engineers and raise the bar across the team
Unblock squadswhentheyrestuck on hard problems (security integrations performance architecture)
Influence technical direction to cut rework speed up decisions and keep releases moving
Bridge architecture and realityensure designs survive contact with production
What Success Looks Like
Teams ship faster because you kill friction. Big bets land because you prove the approach early. Engineers level up because you coach in the trenches. Leaders trust you to make the call when it is noisy.
Who You Are
Seniorengineerfrom a tech startup or digital product company
Deep technical expertwho can jump across backend frontend integrations data and AI and keep learning
Hands-on builderwho can whip up prototypes and debug production systems
Strong technical communicatorwho can explain complex concepts to Product Architects and leadership
Comfortable with ambiguity and able to turn emerging requirements into shippable plans
Startup mindsetyou ship fast without breaking the basics
Comfortable influencing without authority
Continuouslearnerin anever-changingtechnology landscape
What You Bring
8 years of professional software engineering experience with senior level ownership and cross team influence
Hands onexpertisewith JavaReactSalesforceand enterprise integrations
Technical breadth and credibility to challenge architecture guide technical strategy and set standards for quality reliability and maintainability
Proven success owning end to end delivery for customer facing digital products from planning to build to release tooperatewith measurable outcomes
Experience setting and running an engineering operating cadence across prioritizationplanningexecutiondependencies quality and incident learnings
Experience partnering with ProductDesignand senior stakeholders to navigate trade-offs risk and timelines in a complex environment
Strongtrack recorddeveloping talent through mentoring pairing and raising the technical bar across squads
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
Learn and Grow Fast: Exposure tonew technologies business problems and the full product lifecycle in a compressedtimeframe
Collaborative Innovative Culture: Work with passionate talented people who move fast and support each other
Flexible Workstyle: In office 2-3days per week hybrid the rest of the week
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.
Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to .
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.
Salary Range:
125000/125 000 - 195000/195 000Job Category:
IT - Application DevelopmentPosting End Date:
19/04/2026Required Experience:
Staff IC
