Lead Full Stack Engineer

Preferred Qualifications:

• Front-end and digital experience: Next.js and Adobe Experience Manager.
• Back-end and eventing: Spring Batch, Spring Cloud/Integration, Azure Functions, and JMS.
• Data and analytics: Databricks/Spark, Azure Data Factory, ETL and data pipelines, Azure Storage, KQL, and Azure Data Explorer.
• Platform and infrastructure as code: Flux/GitOps, Istio service mesh, Azure Key Vault, and Azure networking, DNS, or WAF.
• Legacy integration: z/OS Connect, DB2, batch file/SFTP integration, mainframe-fronting, and strangler patterns.
• Quality and security tooling: Xray test management, performance and load testing, and chaos or resilience testing.
• Advanced AI engineering: Agentic development workflows, LLM application patterns, evaluation, and guardrail design.
• Experience leading a platform migration, decommissioning initiative, or large-scale modernization program.
• Experience evaluating and selecting vendors, platforms, or strategic tools.
• Experience working in a regulated environment, with awareness of audit, control, and compliance obligations.
• Contributions to the broader technical community through internal guilds or chapters, conference presentations, open-source work, or published writing.
• Formal architecture accreditation or equivalent demonstrated capability.
• When you join our team:
• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
• As part of our distributed team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.
• The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a Full Stack Software Engineer, including demonstrated experience leading technical delivery across multiple teams and owning solutions from design through production support.
• Expertise in a significant range of the technologies listed below, with working knowledge across others. Candidates are not expected to have experience with every item; recognized depth in several areas and sound judgement in selecting appropriate technologies are most important.
• Languages and runtimes: Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, C#,.NET, and SQL.
• Back-end frameworks: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Data JPA/Hibernate, and NestJS or Express.js.
• Front-end development: React, micro-frontends, enterprise component or design libraries, CSS, Tailwind, SCSS, and React state management and data fetching.
• Architecture and design: Distributed systems, event-driven and asynchronous patterns, domain-driven design, API lifecycle and versioning, and resilience and failure-mode design.
• Integration and APIs: Microservices, REST APIs/OpenAPI, Backend-for-Frontend, Azure API Management, and Azure Event Hubs or Service Bus.
• Data and storage: Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB or MongoDB, Redis, Flyway or similar database migration tooling, and data modelling at scale.
• Cloud and platform: Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes/AKS, Docker and containers, Terraform, and Helm or Kustomize.
• Build and CI/CD: Maven or Gradle, npm or pnpm, Git/GitHub, GitHub Actions, and release and change management.
• Testing and quality: JUnit, Jest or Vitest, Playwright or Selenium, Bruno or REST Assured, SonarQube, and test strategy definition.
• Security and identity: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT, OWASP secure coding, dependency and CVE management tools such as Snyk, PII and data protection, and threat modelling.
• Observability: New Relic or Application Insights, structured logging and tracing, and SLI/SLO definition.
• AI-assisted engineering: GitHub Copilot or equivalent tools, prompt and context engineering, and responsible-use standards.
• Proven experience defining application and service architecture and influencing architectural decisions beyond your immediate team.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex technical programs across multiple teams with competing priorities and interdependencies.
• A track record of establishing engineering standards or best practices adopted beyond your immediate squad.
• Experience mentoring and supporting the growth of engineers, including senior engineers.
• Deep knowledge of Agile and DevOps principles, with practices that emphasize testing, continuous integration, and rapid, safe releases.
• Expert-level foundation in data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical vision, options, trade-offs, and outcomes to engineers, senior stakeholders, and non-technical audiences.
• Sound judgement and accountability when making consequential decisions with incomplete information.