Lead Software Engineer

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About the role

  • Lead Software Engineer developing innovative technology solutions for Sun Life's digital clients. Responsible for product ownership and guiding the technical direction of the team.

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • 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
  • Guide the technical direction of the team
  • Provide clear technical leadership through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship
  • Collaborate across disciplines

Requirements

  • Minimum 8 years of progressive information technology experience with full application development life cycle and systems integration experience
  • Strong experience with Spring Boot, Microservices and API Development
  • Proficient with SOAP/XML, REST/JSON
  • Experience using DevOps tools (e.g. BitBucket, CDD, Jenkins)
  • Understanding of Javascript and jQuery
  • Experience with MS 365
  • Experience with ServiceNow (SNOW)
  • Extensive multi-platform integration experience
  • Accessibility, security, or compliance experience in regulated environments
  • Cloud and delivery fluency (AWS, CI/CD, Containers, etc…)

Benefits

  • Wellness programs that support the three pillars of your health – mental, physical, and financial
  • The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential.
  • As a hybrid organization, you and your leader use business and Client need to choose where you work, at home or in the office

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$90,000 - CA$140,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSCloudJavaScriptJenkinsjQueryMicroservicesServiceNowSOAPSpringSpring BootSpringBoot

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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