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You will translate technical and business requirements into incremental deliverables aligned with business and technology roadmaps.\nAs a senior member of the team, you will be accountable for outcomes, not only assigned tasks. You will lead medium-sized technical initiatives from end to end, set a high engineering standard within your squad and influence stakeholders beyond it. This role calls for strong technical judgment, initiative and a genuine interest in coaching others and improving engineering quality.\nPosition Responsibilities:\nDesign, develop, test, deliver, maintain and continuously improve business applications across the full technology stack and throughout the software development lifecycle.\nDesign end-user interfaces, databases, APIs and server-side logic while maintaining front-end and back-end components.\nApply disciplined coding practices, established design patterns, automation and semantic versioning to support agility and high-quality delivery.\nDevelop detailed system design specifications that guide system and program development.\nBuild automated test harnesses and conduct analysis to ensure solutions meet or exceed quality standards and end-user requirements.\nConduct investigative spikes to reduce technical uncertainty and risk.\nResolve defects and improve software efficiency, reliability and maintainability.\nParticipate in ideation and prototyping to develop creative digital solutions.\nComplete required deployment, maintenance, support and business documentation.\nParticipate in peer reviews of code and analysis to promote continuous learning and improvement.\nRequired Qualifications:\n5-10 years of experience as a Full Stack Software Engineer, with demonstrated ownership of features from design through production support.\nLanguages and runtimes:\nJava, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, C#, .NET and SQL.\nFront-end development:\nReact, micro-frontends, enterprise component or design libraries, CSS, Tailwind or SCSS, and React state management and data fetching.\nIntegration and APIs:\nMicroservices, REST APIs, OpenAPI, Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) and Azure API Management.\nData and storag e:\nMicrosoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB or MongoDB, Redis, and database migration tools such as Flyway.\nCloud and platforms:\nMicrosoft Azure, Kubernetes or AKS, Docker and container-based environments.\nBuild and CI/CD:\nMaven or Gradle, npm or pnpm, Git, GitHub and GitHub Actions.\nTesting and quality:\nJUnit; Jest or Vitest; Playwright or Selenium for end-to-end testing; Bruno or REST Assured for API testing; and SonarQube.\nSecurity and identity:\nOAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, OWASP secure coding practices, dependency and CVE management tools such as Snyk, and the protection of personally identifiable information.\nObservability:\nNew Relic or Application Insights, structured logging and tracing.\nAI-assisted engineering:\nGitHub Copilot or an equivalent tool, including prompt and context engineering.\nExperience designing application architecture at the component and service levels and contributing to architectural decisions beyond your own codebase.\nUnderstanding of Agile and DevOps principles, with development practices that prioritize testing, continuous integration and the rapid, safe release of new features.\nA strong foundation in data structures, algorithms and object-oriented design.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical vision, options and outcomes to varied audiences.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nNext.js and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).\nBack-end and eventing:\nSpring Batch, Spring Cloud or Spring Integration, Azure Functions, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Service Bus and JMS.\n\nData and analytics:\nDatabricks or Spark, Azure Data Factory, ETL and data pipelines, Azure Storage including Blob Storage or ADLS, KQL and Azure Data Explorer.\nPlatform and infrastructure as code:\nTerraform, Helm or Kustomize, Flux or GitOps, Istio service mesh, Azure Key Vault, and Azure networking, DNS or WAF.\nLegacy integration:\nz/OS Connect for API enablement, DB2, batch files and SFTP.\nQuality and security tooling:\nXray test management and performance or load testing.\nAdvanced AI engineering:\nAgentic development workflows and LLM application patterns.\nWhen you join our team:\nWe’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.\nWe’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.\nAs part of our distributed team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.\nThe role being advertised is an existing vacancy.\nAbout Manulife and John Hancock\nManulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. 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. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact .\nReferenced Salary Location\nWaterloo, OntarioWorking Arrangement\nHybridSalary range is expected to be between\n$113,000.00 CAD - $163,000.00 CADEmployees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact  for the salary range for your location.\nManulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact  for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.\nWe use data and analytics technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), and automated processing tools, to analyze and process the information you provide to us or third parties in the application process. 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