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.
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