Senior embedded engineer developing safety - critical ECU firmware for Hexagon Mining’s digital mining and vehicle - control technologies. Designing, testing, and commissioning embedded systems.
About the role
- Engineering Lead for Sun Life's innovative in-house accelerator, building and scaling digital products in a startup-style environment. Overseeing hands-on technical execution and mentoring a growing engineering team.
Responsibilities
- Write production-quality code daily across backend, APIs, and AI-enabled services
- Make fast, pragmatic architecture decisions that prioritize learning and delivery while keeping future scale in mind
- Design and evolve Sun Life’s agentic AI platform, including orchestration, integration layers, APIs, and guardrails
- Evaluate and experiment with new technologies, AI models, and vendor solutions
- Hire, onboard, mentor, and develop a small, high-caliber engineering team (AI, backend, full-stack)
- Establish engineering practices, standards, and ways of working that enable speed without sacrificing quality
- Foster a culture of experimentation, ownership, and continuous learning
- Build with security, reliability, and compliance awareness appropriate for a regulated financial institution.
- Understand which enterprise guardrails matter now vs. later, and navigate governance without slowing experimentation.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on engineering experience, with recent, demonstrable coding work in a 0 - 1 environment.
- Experience acting as a software engineering leader or founder-level engineer on complex digital products or platforms.
- Strong fluency in modern cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and DevOps practices (CI/CD, containers, infrastructure as code).
- Proven ability to operate in ambiguity, make trade-offs, and ship imperfect solutions quickly.
- Ability to grow from individual contributor to team builder—comfortable hiring, mentoring, and raising the bar for others.
- Startup or early-stage product experience is a significant asset.
- Nice to have: Experience with AI/ML systems → building with LLMs, prompt engineering, or agentic architectures.
Benefits
- Great Place to Work® Certified for Most Trusted Executive Team in Canada – 2025, 2024 and 2023
- Great Place to Work® Certified for Best Workplaces in Canada - 2025
- Canada Order of Excellence for Mental Health at Work® certification from Excellence Canada.
- Top Work Places® for Remote Work – Monster Canada - 2024
- Flexible hybrid work model.
- Pension, stock and savings programs to help build and enhance your future financial security
- Work and professional development that is united by our Purpose: to help Clients and Employees achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives
- A friendly, collaborative and inclusive culture.
- Be part of our continuous improvement journey in developing the next greatest digital enterprise experience.
Job title
Job type
Experience level
Salary
Degree requirement
Tech skills
Location requirements
Report this job
Found something wrong with the page? Please let us know by submitting a report below.
Engineering Lead guiding electrical component design integration, risk management, and supplier coordination. Supporting production, quality, service, and customer engineering outcomes at NFI/MCI.
Staff Software Engineer building full - stack AI - powered healthcare workflows for exacare ai, whose platform transforms referral packets into clinical insights and placement decisions.
Senior Software Engineer building scalable TypeScript and AWS systems for exacare ai’s AI operating system for post - acute care. Owning healthcare workflow features from design through production.
Senior Full Stack Engineer expanding Infisical’s open source security infrastructure platform. Building secrets management, PKI, PAM, and KMS products with the engineering team.
Full Stack Engineer expanding Infisical’s open source security platform for secrets management, PKI, PAM, and KMS. Building secure developer infrastructure and AI - enabled security capabilities.
Full - Stack Digital Strategist developing multi - channel campaigns for luxury hotels, resorts, and experiential travel brands. Optimizing paid media, SEO, tracking, funnels, and client performance.
Principal Software Developer building Solace Agent Mesh, an event - driven platform connecting and orchestrating AI agents. Leading AI integration architecture, platform development, and technical innovation.
Guidewire technical lead shaping insurance digital transformation at Alithya. Designing scalable architectures, integrations, cloud migrations, and modernization solutions.
Senior Software Engineer building AlphaSense’s AI - powered Excel plugin for financial professionals. Optimizing Office integrations used by analysts at leading financial institutions.