As a Full Stack Engineer, you will build and maintain applications that customers and advisors rely on. Working alongside an experienced team, you will contribute across the full technology stack to deliver secure, reliable and user-centred solutions that support business objectives. You will translate requirements into working software through incremental delivery and take ownership of your deliverables from end to end. This includes contributing to solution design, writing and testing code, and supporting applications in production. You will work independently on most assignments while collaborating with senior engineers when addressing recent or complex challenges. This role is well suited to an engineer who wants to strengthen their technical capabilities, take meaningful ownership of their work and continue developing within a team that values engineering quality. Position Responsibilities Develop, test, deliver, maintain and improve business applications across the full stack and throughout the software development lifecycle. Develop and maintain user interfaces, databases, APIs, server‑side logic, and other front‑end and back‑end components. Apply disciplined coding practices, design patterns, automation and semantic versioning to produce high‑quality, maintainable code. Contribute to detailed system‑design specifications that support system and application development. Write automated tests and contribute to test harnesses that help ensure solutions meet technical standards and user requirements. Conduct investigative spikes to reduce technical uncertainty and manage risk within assigned work. Resolve software defects and improve application efficiency, reliability and maintainability. Participate in incident response and support root‑cause analysis within your area of responsibility.



Identify technical debt and raise it for review and prioritization. Participate in ideation and prototyping to develop creative digital solutions. Complete required deployment, maintenance, support and business documentation, including runbooks for the features you develop. Participate in peer reviews of code and technical analysis to support continuous learning and improvement. Required Qualifications
- 3–5 years of experience as a Full Stack Engineer, including hands‑on delivery across front‑end and back‑end components.
- Practical experience across the following core technologies.
- Additional breadth is welcomed but is not required: Languages and runtimes: Java or TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js and SQL.
- Back‑end frameworks: Spring Boot, NestJS or Express.js.
- Front‑end development: React, CSS, Tailwind or SCSS, component or design libraries, and React state management and data fetching.
- Integration and APIs: REST APIs, OpenAPI and a working understanding of microservices.
- Data and storage: Microsoft SQL Server or Azure SQL and relational data modelling.
- Cloud, build and source control: Microsoft Azure fundamentals, Docker, containers, Git or GitHub, and GitHub Actions.
- Testing and quality: JUnit, Jest or Vitest; API‑testing tools such as Bruno or REST Assured; and SonarQube.
- Understanding of Agile and DevOps principles, including development practices that prioritize testing and continuous integration.




- A solid foundation in data structures, algorithms and object‑oriented design.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical approaches and reasoning to team members and partners.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently on assigned deliverables while recognizing when collaboration or additional support is needed. Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with any of the following would be considered an asset: Cloud and platform: Kubernetes or Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure API Management, Azure Key Vault, and infrastructure as code using Terraform.
- Front‑end and user

experience:
Micro‑frontends, Next.js, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), internationalization for English and Canadian French, or Adobe Experience Manager.
- Back‑end and eventing: Spring Security, Spring Data JPA or Hibernate, Spring Batch, Azure Functions, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Service Bus or JMS.
- Data and storage: Azure Cosmos DB, MongoDB, Redis, Flyway, Databricks, Spark, Azure Data Factory, ETL or data pipelines.
- Security and identity: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JSON Web Tokens, OWASP secure‑coding practices, dependency or CVE management using Snyk, and the protection of personally identifiable information.
- Observability: New Relic, Application Insights, structured logging or distributed tracing.
- Testing and quality: Playwright or Selenium for end‑to‑end testing, Xray test management, or performance and load testing.
- Legacy integration: z/OS Connect, DB2, batch‑file processing or SFTP.
- Additional programming languages: Python, C# or .
NET.
- AI‑assisted engineering: GitHub Copilot or a comparable development tool, including prompt and context engineering.
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📌 Full Stack Engineer (Ottawa)
🏢 Manulife/John Hancock
📍 Ottawa