React Job: Back End Software Engineer

Are you looking for a supportive, collaborative workplace with great teams and inspiring leaders? You’ve come to the right place. We’re looking for ambitious people who share our values and want to make every day better for people around the world. If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we’d like to hear from you.

Job Description

Our customer is at the focus of everything we do, and millions of end users rely on our products daily. We believe in the value of empowering engineers with the resources to tackle critical problems for the future of the business, which is why we need you!

We are seeking self-motivated engineers, who are obsessed with delivering value, are forward-thinking, love to learn from both successes and failures, and are excited to see the successful implementation of the products they deliver while remaining open to change and continuous improvement.

You will work with the latest technologies and tools such as GitHub, DevOps pipelines (Jenkins), Cloud (AKS/PCF), Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.

Your services will enable new features in our native Android and iOS apps.

What motivates you?

• You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit
• You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile mindset and enable business outcomes
• You thrive in teams, and enjoy getting things done together
• You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters
• You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up
• You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone
  

As a Back-End Software Engineer, you will be:

• Building best in class apps, APIs and data solutions to drive projects.
• Applying creative problem solving that bring software designs to life.
• Designing, coding, unit testing and integrating new features and functionality as defined by the PO and team.
• Apply agile principles and methodology.
• Assisting in the development of automated test to ensure delivery of high-quality code.
• Updating progress daily through the tracking tool (Jira) and Kanban board.
• Assisting with any required documentation e.g. deployment, maintenance, support and business needs.
  

You will bring and continuously build upon the following skills:

• Participating in ideation and brainstorming sessions to devise creative and disruptive digital solutions. We need and value fresh ideas.
• Participating in the weekly meetings to assist the Product Owner to refine the Product Backlog including providing initial estimates.
  

You will be working with:

• Languages such as Kotlin, Java (Spring Boot, Spring Security) and JavaScript (ReactJS, NodeJS, Redux) .
• Technologies such as Unit testing frameworks, Cucumber, BDD, Jenkins pipelines, etc.
• Working with SOAP, REST, Graphql, Microservices, and Event-Driven services.
• Analysts to help understand requirements.
• Learning about Manulife’s Agile and DevOps principles, test-driven development, continuous integration, and other approaches to accelerate the delivery of new features.
• Cloud Foundry and Azure Kubernetes as well as other components supporting a highly automated engineering platform.
• Open source, as we accelerate our delivery of world-class experiences, we know embracing open-source technologies will help us get there. Any experience with open source is very attractive to us.
• New technologies as proof of concepts to be integrated in our products.
  

You are:

• Good communicator.
• Meticulous.
• Team player.

What can we offer you?

• A competitive salary and benefits packages.
• A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills.
• A focus on growing your career path with us.
• Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance.
• Professional development and leadership opportunities.
  

Our commitment to you:

• Values-first culture
  We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together.
• Boundless opportunity
  We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career.
• Continuous innovation
  We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services.
• Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
  We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives.
• Championing Corporate Citizenship
  We build a business that benefits all stakeholders and has a positive social and environmental impact.

Every career at Manulife/John Hancock provides the opportunity to learn new skills and move your career forward. Ready to make an impact somewhere? What are you waiting for? Apply today.

About John Hancock and Manulife

John Hancock is a unit of Manulife Financial Corporation, a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. We operate primarily as John Hancock in the United States, and Manulife globally, including Canada, Asia and Europe. We provide financial advice, insurance and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. Assets under management and administration by Manulife and its subsidiaries were CAD$1.3 trillion (US$1.1 trillion) as of June 30, 2021. Manulife Financial Corporation trades as MFC on the TSX, NYSE, and PSE, and under 945 on the SEHK. Manulife can be found at manulife.com .

One of the largest life insurers in the United States, John Hancock supports more than 10 million Americans with a broad range of financial products, including life insurance , annuities , investments , 401(k) plans , and education savings plans . Additional information about John Hancock may be found at johnhancock.com .

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife /John Hancock , we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour , ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process . All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies . To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact [email protected] .