Hybrid Senior Backend Software Engineer

at Sun Life

• Job title: Senior Backend Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $98,400 - $147,600 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Docker, GraphQL, Java, Kubernetes, Python, Splunk, Terraform, .NET
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Kansas City, United States

About the role

• Senior Backend Software Engineer at Sun Life maintaining IT objectives and implementing mobile technologies. Responsible for analyzing requirements, developing solutions, and supporting applications.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes and evaluates business requirements by working with clients and management
• Provides recommendations on the nature, scope and complexity of solutions
• Document the functional and technical specifications and project plans for proposed solutions to business requirements of moderate to high complexity
• Develops (codes), tests, documents, educates and supports subsequent software solutions
• Develops and implements project plans, including resources, tasks, time frames and deliverables for moderate to complex projects
• Monitors projects and advises members on how to resolve technical problems
• Assists in training initiatives by occasionally providing direction to peers and less experienced staff
• May assign work to less experienced staff and review their work
• Supports existing applications, monitors systems performance and work based on the impact to the business
• May coordinate cross-functional IT departments to resolve issues
• Uses troubleshooting skills to identify, research and propose solutions to problems and accommodate necessary changes or corrective action, as needed
• Recommends standards, procedures and process improvements appropriate to own work
• May present work to team members, clients and management
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or related field
• 7+ years of total experience of developing API’s for mobile applications
• .NET (C#) and Python, Java
• Deep understanding of Azure and AWS
• experience in designing cloud-native applications using serverless and containerized architectures
• Extensive experience with BFF design patterns, API Gateway, and middleware solutions
• Strong experience with authentication and security using Okta, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and JWT
• Strong knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (Terraform, ARM templates)
• Extensive experience with monitoring and alerting tools (ELK, Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk)
• Experience working in agile development environments, leading technical discussions, and mentoring junior engineers
• Extensive knowledge of building REST and GraphQL APIs
• Effective oral and written communication skills

Benefits

• generous vacation and sick time
• market-leading paid family, parental and adoption leave
• medical coverage
• company paid life and AD&D insurance
• disability programs
• partially paid sabbatical program
• 401(k) employer match
• stock purchase options
• employer-funded retirement account
• flexible, inclusive and collaborative work environment