Senior Software Engineer (.NET and API)

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

The Platforms and Engineering group is a team of skilled professionals who dedicate their careers to supporting and enhancing Sun Life’s technology-based solutions. We focus on discovering new ways to help our clients achieve lifetime financial security, live healthier lives and connect with us. Come join us as we continue to intensify our journey in helping our clients and transforming our business in exciting ways!

We are currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop and support technical solutions for our Group Benefits Underwriting business group. The successful candidate will be part of a team that uses latest API and Business Analytics technologies to support a modernization project to improve our client experience. If you are a team player with strong technical and problem-solving skills, who shows initiative, and is accountable for results, read on!

What Will You Do

• Collaborate with Agile team members to develop and deliver high quality applications
• Participate in Agile ceremonies
• Contribute to the estimation, planning and management of development tasks and provide regular updates on progress against those tasks
• Analyze and contribute ideas to production discussions, designs and decisions
• Complete coding, testing, debugging and implementation activities
• Write both unit and integration tests, and develop automation tools

What You Need To Succeed

You have 8+ years of professional, hands-on backend and API development experience, including:

• .NET, C#, Python
• PostgreSQL, SQLServer, MongoDB
• Solid Unit Tests practices with proper code coverage
• Experienced in Database and Application Design
• API and Microservice architecture

Nice-To-Have Skills

• Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience using DevOps tools (BitBucket/Azure DevOps, CDD, Jenkins, Blue Green Deployment)
• Experience in UI development would be an asset

Individual Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A continuous improvement mindset
• A penchant for creating re-usable components and identifying opportunities for re-use.

Special Requirements

• Occasional travel between Sun Life locations (Toronto, Waterloo) may be required depending on work assignment.
• Periodic weekend/after-hours work may be required to support project implementations and system upgrades. 

What’s In It For You

• We’re honoured to be recognized as a 2024 Best Workplaces in Ontario by Great Place to Work® Canada.
• We are thrilled to be recognized by Excellence Canada with their top-level certification, the Canada Order of Excellence for Mental Health at Work®, for prioritizing employee well-being, fostering a positive work culture, and achieving excellence in mental health.
• We’re proud to be recognized as a company with a 2023 Most Trusted Executive team by Great Place to Work® Canada.
• 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 needs to choose where you work, at home or in the office

As a condition of the role, the successful candidate must obtain a Government of Canada Reliability Status security clearance through Sun Life in advance of the start date.

Must be able to satisfactorily complete applicable background checks prior to the start date and during employment, in accordance with Sun Life’s policies and practices.

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted.  It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors.  In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance.  Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results. 

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.com.

At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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