Back-end Software Engineer (Kotlin)

At Manulife, the customer is at the center of everything we do. Millions of end users rely on our products every day. We believe in empowering engineers with the right tools, autonomy, and support to solve critical problems that shape the future of our business – and that’s where you come in.

We are looking for self-motivated engineers who are obsessed with delivering value, think ahead, learn from both successes and failures, and are excited to see their products successfully launched and used in the real world. You are open to change, continuous improvement, and raising the bar for engineering excellence. You will work with modern technologies and tools such as GitHub, DevOps pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), Cloud (Azure Kubernetes Service), Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. Your backend services will power new features in our native Android and iOS apps and have a direct impact on the experience of millions of users.

Position Responsibilities:

As a Back-End Software Engineer, you will: Design and build APIs and backend services to expose new capabilities to our members. Apply creative problem-solving to bring software designs and architecture to life. Design, code, unit test, and integrate new features and functionality as defined by the Product Owner and the team. Apply Agile principles and methodology in your day-to-day work. Contribute to automated tests as needed to ensure delivery of high-quality, reliable code. Update progress daily using Jira and Kanban boards. Contribute to required documentation (deployment, maintenance, support, business needs, runbooks, etc.).

Required Qualifications:

3+ years Back-end development experience Kotlin, Java (Spring Boot, Spring Security) JavaScript (ReactJS, NodeJS, Redux)

Testing, CI/CD & quality Unit and integration testing frameworks BDD tools (Cucumber, etc.)

CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Cloud & platform Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Cloud Foundry

Terraform, Flux, ConfigMap and other components supporting a highly automated engineering platform

Architecture & integrations SOAP, REST, GraphQL services Microservices and event-driven architectures

Preferred Qualifications:

Participating in ideation and brainstorming sessions to design creative, innovative, and sometimes disruptive digital solutions — we need and value fresh ideas. Taking part in Agile ceremonies and weekly meetings to help the Product Owner refine the Product Backlog, including providing initial estimates and challenging requirements when appropriate.