Back - End Software Engineer

We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today.

Job Description

Back-End Software Engineer

The customer is at the focus of everything we do, and millions of end users rely on our products daily. 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.

We are seeking self-motivated engineers, who are obsessed with delivering value, are forward-thinking, love to learn, and are excited to see the successful implementation of the products they deliver.

We are growing, and we are looking for Back-End Engineers to complete our team! Our current opportunity is available in Makati City.

As a Back-End Software Engineer, you will:

• You will build best in class apps, APIs and data solutions to drive projects.
• Applying creative problem solving that bring software designs to life.
• Designing, coding, unit testing and integrating new features and functionality as defined by the PO and team.
• Follow and promote agile principles and methodology.
• Assisting in the development of automated test harnesses as necessary to ensure delivery of high-quality code.
• Updating progress daily through the tracking tool (Jira) or Kanban board.
• Completing any required documentation e.g. deployment, maintenance, support and business needs.

You will bring and continuously build upon the following skills:

• Participating in ideation and brainstorming sessions to devise creative and disruptive digital solutions. We need and value fresh ideas!
• Performing various investigative Spikes in order to mitigate technical uncertainty and risk.
• Participating in the weekly Look Ahead meetings to assist the Product Owner to refine the Product Backlog including providing initial estimates.

You will be working with:

• Languages such as Express, NodeJS, GraphQL, Kafka and/or similar technologies, and Java (Spring Boot).
• Exposure to technologies such as React, Mongo, CosmosDB, Unit testing frameworks, Cucumber, BDD, etc.
• Familiarity with SOAP, REST, Microservices, and Event-Driven services.
• Agile and DevOps principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and other approaches to accelerate the delivery of new features.
• Cloud Foundry and Azure Kubernetes as well as other components supporting a highly automated engineering platform
• Open source! As we accelerate our delivery of world-class experiences, we know embracing open-source technologies will help us get there. Any experience with open source is very attractive to us!

Want to learn more Apply today, we are eager to speak with you!

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Asia, Canada, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We provide financial advice, insurance, and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2022, we had more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving over 34 million customers. At the end of 2022, we had $1.3 trillion (US$1.0 trillion) in assets under management and administration, including total inve sted assets of $0.4 trillion (US $0.3 trillion), and segregated funds net assets of $0.3 trillion (US$0.3 trillion). We trade as MFC on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges, and under 945 in Hong Kong.

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer