.Net Backend Software Engineer

Intermediate Back-end Software Developer
Mid-Shift
Working Arrangement: Hybrid

The Group Benefits team is looking for seasoned Intermediate Software engineer with an engineering mindset and a passion for designing, developing, improving, and supporting cool software products, particularly data interfaces between systems. You will initially join a development team to assist in the delivery of customer centric solutions. You would emerge knowing the people, processes, and technologies for both development and support / operations at our company. This will allow you to add immense value and grow your career

As an Intermediate Backend Software Engineer, you will:

- Collaborate with product and engineering managers, software engineers, and operations engineers to uncover pain points and opportunities to deliver new business value through software
- Prototype and build new functionality to deliver on key product objectives
- Deliver an exceptional user experience to our customers, through the delivery of products and services with strong and extendable architectural design
- Contribute to application and technical architecture plans as they relate to the tools and systems in place within our organization.
- Maintain and support these services, with accountability for production reliability and usage, and the delivery of new functionality
- Be part or lead initiatives within Business Unit to develop and improve standards and methodologies.
- Influence and lead discussions with our strategic vendors to advance our platforms and deliver value sooner
- Work with Associate Engineers to collaborate with our Architecture team realizing the strategic vision of Manulife's technology stack

You will bring and continuously build upon:

- Experience in IT for at least 5+ years with 2 or more years in a similar position
- Solid hands-on experience in C#, .NET Core, .NET Framework
- Experience with Azure SQL database platform
- Cloud based development experience with Cloud Foundry or similar platform.
- Experience in distributed event streaming such as Kafka, Event Hub or similar platform
- Developing junior engineers and a passion for growing staff within the organization
Bonus points for any of the following:

- Jenkins, Docker, SonarQube, Artifactory, JIRA, Confluence
- Knowledge of monitoring tools such as New Relic, Dynatrace etc.

What motivates you

- You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit.
- You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile approach and enable business outcomes.
- You thrive in teams and enjoy getting things done together.
- You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters.
- You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up.
- You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone.

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 stakeholders and has a positive social and environmental impact.