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You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you'll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do.

At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.

When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives.

Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

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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 new 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. We move fast, build with purpose, and have a good time doing it.

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
• Modernize legacy application components by replacing outdated patterns with current, maintainable solutions
• Collaborate with Agile team members (Journey Owner, Scrum Master, Tech Leads) to estimate work, flag risks early, and deliver within sprint commitments
• Apply analytical thinking to understand the downstream impact of your changes on infrastructure and system behaviour
• Occasionally support less experienced team members through code review feedback and informal pairing - as capacity allows
• Participate fully in agile ceremonies and contribute to a high-functioning, continuously improving team

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Technical Skills

• 5+ years of progressive full-stack development experience, including full SDLC and systems integration
• Strong Java / Spring / Spring Boot - the core of our back-end services
• API development proficiency: 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; responsive design principles
• SQL expertise across relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle) and NoSQL (MongoDB)
• Hands-on with DevOps tooling: BitBucket, CDD, Jenkins
• Familiarity with C# / ASP.net is an asset

Soft Skills & Ways of Working

• Self-directed - you ramp up quickly, take ownership, and deliver within fixed timeframes
• Clear communicator - you surface defects with reproducible steps and root-cause insight, not just symptoms
• Technically credible - your code, reviews, and problem-solving naturally raise the standard around you
• Collaborative - you understand and champion engineering best practices across the team

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience in financial services or insurance technology
• Familiarity with Suncentral, Advisor Hub, or similar advisor-facing platforms
• Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments with compliance and audit requirements

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• 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

Sun Life is one of Canada's most established financial institutions - but this team doesn't feel like it. 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.

• Work that matters - directly enabling advisors to deliver financial security to Canadians
• A collaborative, inclusive team culture (yes, the name is intentional - we take the work seriously, not ourselves)
• Flexible work style - Office, Virtual, or Hybrid depending on your role
• Competitive salary, bonus structure, and Sun Life benefits package
• Career mobility within one of Canada's largest financial services organizations
• Access to continuous learning, internal mobility, and engineering community of practice

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. 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. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

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. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.com.

We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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