Are you looking for a supportive, collaborative workplace with great teams and inspiring leaders? You’ve come to the right place. We’re looking for ambitious people who share our values and want to make every day better for people around the world. Our team helps to drive out and complete a great banking experience for our customers. **It’s banking, the way it should be!** At Manulife Bank, we believe banking products are an integral part of every Canadians financial plan. As one of Canada's youngest banks, we are growing at an unprecedented rate and need people with the skills, energy, and drive to maintain our leadership position as an "advisors bank." If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we’d like to hear from you to join our team’s exiting journey as we grow, pioneer, and innovate. **Job Description** We are seeking an experienced and dedicated **Back-end Software Engineer** to design, develop, and maintain robust software solutions. You will collaborate with multi-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions that meet our customer’s needs, while maintaining the health of our applications. Your positive approach, ability to be flexible to shifting priorities and creativity rooted in technology will help you navigate this exciting and growing business. We are looking for passionate, motivated individuals to join our team’s exciting journey as we grow, pioneer, and innovate. **As a Back-end Software Engineer your responsibilities will include:** + Participate in ideation, and brainstorming sessions to devise creative and innovative solutions. We need and value fresh ideas! + Design, code, unit test and integrate new features and functionality + Collaborate with technical program managers, software engineers, quality engineers and IT business analysts to uncover opportunities to deliver new business value through software + Maintain and ensure high quality software by writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code that adheres to industry standards and coding standards, with accountability for production reliability and usage + Build best in class applications, APIs, and data solutions to drive business and technical outcomes + Review current software framework to identify defects and opportunities to improve performance and stability + Proficiency in testing and debugging back-end code to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability. + Understanding of standard methodologies for securing back-end systems, including authentication, authorization, data encryption, and protection against common security threats. + Ability to create and maintain robust and efficient application programming interfaces (APIs) for communication between different software systems. + Research technical strategies, third party tools, and current and new technologies to deal with emerging technical issues and improve development efficiency + Apply disciplined coding practices to enable agility and delivery of high-quality code + Promote agile principles and methodology + Perform various investigative "Spikes" to mitigate technical uncertainty and risk + Participate in ideation and brainstorming sessions to devise creative solutions. We need and value fresh ideas. + Participate in the weekly meetings to refine the backlog, including providing initial estimates. + Mentor other developers on the team. + Build interpersonal relationships by working closely with the Technical Program Manager, Quality Engineers, and Analysts in a globally distributed environment. + Update progress daily through the tracking tool (Jira) or Scrum/Kanban board + Complete documentation as part of definition of done. e.g., deployment, maintenance, support and for business needs. **Experience required for this role is as follows:** + Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience) + **5+ years of back-end development experience** + Key technologies for this role include: + Proficiency in C# .NET, Node.js/React, Oracle Databases, Azure DB, JavaScript, AKS & Azure cloud services + Strong Data analytics (Data validation & classification) + CA Workload + REST API + GitHub for source control + Jira for task management + Postman + Jenkins, SNYK, and SonarQube for a DevOps chain Nice to have technologies: + Progress/SQL database + Excellent verbal and written communication; effectively articulates technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes + Familiarity with agile and DevOps principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and other approaches to accelerate delivery + Hands-on RDBMS experience (data modeling, analysis, programming, stored procedures) + Good foundation in data structures, algorithms, and OO Design with rock-solid programming skills + Collaborative attitude, willingness to work with team members; able to coach, participate in code reviews, share skills and methods. Also efficiently communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical collaborators + Constantly learns from both success and failure and is keen on experimenting with emerging technologies + Good organizational and problem-solving abilities that enable you to manage through creative abrasion **Additional attributes that are nice to have:** + Agile team experience where responsibilities include the planning and delivery of user stories in an Agile SCRUM environment + Banking Industry knowledge/experience **What can we offer you?** + A competitive salary and benefits packages. + A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills. + A focus on growing your career path with us. + Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance. + Professional development and leadership opportunities. **Our commitment to you** **Values-first culture** We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together. **Boundless opportunity** We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career. **Continuous innovation** We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services. **Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion** We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives. **Championing Corporate Citizenship** We build a business that benefits all customers and has a positive social and environmental impact. **Acerca de Manulife y John Hancock** Manulife Financial Corporation es un importante proveedor internacional de servicios financieros que ayuda a las personas a tomar decisiones de una manera más fácil y a vivir mejor. Para obtener más información acerca de nosotros, visite http://www.manulife.com . **Manulife es un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades** En Manulife/John Hancock, valoramos nuestra diversidad. Nos esforzamos por atraer, formar y retener una fuerza laboral tan diversa como los clientes a los que prestamos servicios, y para fomentar un entorno laboral inclusivo en el que se aprovechen las fortalezas de las culturas y las personas. Estamos comprometidos con la equidad en las contrataciones, la retención de talento, el ascenso y la remuneración, y administramos todas nuestras prácticas y programas sin discriminación por motivos de raza, ascendencia, lugar de origen, color, origen étnico, ciudadanía, religión o creencias religiosas, credo, sexo (incluyendo el embarazo y las afecciones relacionadas con este), orientación sexual, características genéticas, condición de veterano, identidad de género, expresión de género, edad, estado civil, estatus familiar, discapacidad, o cualquier otro aspecto protegido por la ley vigente. Nuestra prioridad es eliminar las barreras para garantizar la igualdad de acceso al empleo. Un representante de Recursos Humanos trabajará con los solicitantes que requieran una adaptación razonable durante el proceso de solicitud. Toda la información que se haya compartido durante el proceso de solicitud de adaptación se almacenará y utilizará de manera congruente con las leyes y las políticas de Manulife/John Hancock correspondientes. Para solicitar una adaptación razonable en el proceso de solicitud, envíenos un mensaje a recruitment@manulife.com . **Primary Location** Waterloo, Ontario **Modalidades de Trabajo** Híbrido **Salary range is expected to be between** $75,880.00 CAD - $140,920.00 CAD Si se está postulando para este puesto fuera de la ubicación principal, póngase en contacto con recruitment@manulife.com para conocer el rango salarial de su ubicación. El salario real variará según las condiciones locales del mercado, la geografía y los factores relacionados con el trabajo pertinentes, como conocimiento, habilidades, calificaciones, experiencia y educación/capacitación. Los empleados también tienen la oportunidad de participar en programas de incentivos y obtener una compensación de incentivos vinculada al desempeño comercial e individual. Manulife ofrece a los empleados aptos una amplia variedad de beneficios personalizables, entre ellos, beneficios de salud, odontológicos, de salud mental, oftalmológicos, por discapacidad a corto y a largo plazo, cobertura de seguro de vida y por muerte accidental y desmembramiento, adopción/subrogación y bienestar, y planes de asistencia al empleado/familiar. También ofrecemos a los empleados admisibles varios planes de ahorro para la jubilación (incluidos planes de pensiones y un plan mundial de propiedad de acciones con contribuciones equivalentes del empleador) y recursos de asesoramiento y educación financiera. Nuestro generoso programa de tiempo libre remunerado en Canadá incluye feriados, vacaciones, días personales y días por enfermedad, y ofrecemos la gama completa de ausencia laboral reglamentaria. Si se está postulando para este puesto en los EE. UU., póngase en contacto con recruitment@manulife.com para obtener más información sobre las disposiciones relativas al tiempo libre remunerado específicas de EE. UU.