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We believe in the value of empowering engineers with the resources to solve critical problems for the future of the business, which is why we need you.\nWe are seeking self-motivated engineers, who are obsessed with delivering value, are forward-thinking, love to learn from both successes and failures, and are excited to see the successful implementation of the products they deliver while remaining open to change and continuous improvement.\nPosition Responsibilities:\nAs a Senior C++ Developer, you will:\nBuild best in class software solutions to drive our products, including prototyping, building, and testing new functionality.\n\nMaintain and ensuring high quality software, with accountability for production reliability and usage.\n\nDesigning, coding, unit testing and integrating new features and functionality as defined by the PO and team.\n\nContribute creative problem solving that bring software designs to life.\n\nApply agile principles and methodology within the squad.\n\nContribute the development of automated test harnesses as necessary to ensure delivery of high-quality code.\n\nUpdating progress daily through the tracking tool (Jira) or Kanban board.\n\nCompleting any of the documentation required e.g. deployment, maintenance, support and business needs.\n\nYou will bring and continuously build upon the following skills:\nApply organizational and problem-solving abilities that enable you to manage through creative abrasion.\n\nLeverage strong verbal and written communication with the ability to effectively articulate and communicate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes.\n\nCollaborate with product managers, software engineers, and operations engineers to uncover pain points and opportunities to deliver new business value through software.\n\nDriving the participation in ideation and brainstorming sessions to devise creative and disruptive digital solutions. 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To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.\nManulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer\nAt Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.\nIt is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. 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