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Senior Software
Engineer - Full Stack You’ll be joining the Super-Awesome Fun Time (SAFT) Squad - the engineering team at the heart of Sun Life's IID Advisor & Firm Journey.
Our mission: transform the digital experience for Independent Advisors and their firms on Suncentral and Advisor Hub, positioning Sun Life as the carrier of choice. We gather user feedback, ship current features, and modernize legacy applications using up-to-date technologies - all while maintaining compliance and enabling advisors to deliver lifetime financial security to their clients. As a Senior Engineer on this team, you'll be a strong individual contributor - someone who takes complex work end-to-end with minimal handholding, writes code the team can build on, and raises the bar through how you work day-to-day: Design, build, and ship full-stack features on Suncentral and Advisor Hub - taking stories from refinement through to production with confidence Write clean, well-tested,
maintainable code that integrates reliably with existing back-end services and front-end surfaces Contribute to technical discussions alongside the Tech Lead - sharing your perspective on approach, trade-offs, and implementation options Collaborate with Agile team members (Journey Owner, Scrum Master, Tech Leads) to estimate work, flag risks early, and deliver within sprint commitments Participate fully in agile ceremonies and contribute to a high-functioning, continuously improving team Technical Skills Strong Java / Spring / Spring Boot - the core of our back-end services ~ REST, OpenAPI, AJAX, SOAP; middleware and web hosting technologies ~ Front-end fluency in React and React Router - component lifecycle, hooks, state management, SPA architecture, async rendering, client-side routing ~ Strong JavaScript / TypeScript - ES6+ features including async/await, promises, destructuring, modules, arrow functions ~ Solid HTML5 and CSS3; SQL expertise across relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle) and NoSQL (MongoDB) ~ Hands-on with DevOps tooling: Familiarity with C# / ASP.net is an asset Familiarity with Suncentral, Advisor Hub,
or similar advisor-facing platforms 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 You'll join a squad with a genuine mandate to modernize, the space to do your best technical work, and direct visibility into how what you build impacts advisors and their clients.
Flexible work style - Office, Virtual, or Hybrid depending on your role Competitive salary, bonus structure, and Sun Life benefits package Access to continuous learning, internal mobility, and engineering community of practice 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. 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.
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📌 Softwareentwickler (m/w/d) | Fullstack | Frontend | Backend | DevOps (Toronto)
🏢 Sun Life
📍 Toronto