Hybrid Staff Engineer

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About the role

  • Staff Engineer at Sun Life developing digital solutions for Canadians. Leading the technical direction and mentoring engineers in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

  • Ship fast with guardrails that keep quality high, tech debt low, and systems up
  • Design the path for big bets and land them in production
  • Advise Engineering and Product leaders with options, trade-offs, and recommendations
  • Collaborate with Architects—make sure designs actually work in production, not just on whiteboards
  • Rapid prototyping—validate approaches before squads commit sprint cycles
  • Coach senior engineers and raise the bar across the team
  • Unblock squads—when they're stuck on hard problems

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with senior level ownership
  • Hands on expertise with Java, React, Salesforce, and enterprise integrations
  • Technical breadth and credibility to challenge architecture, guide technical strategy, and set standards for quality, reliability, and maintainability
  • Proven success owning end to end delivery for customer facing digital products
  • Experience setting and running an engineering operating cadence across prioritization, planning, execution, dependencies, quality and incident learnings
  • Strong track record developing talent through mentoring, pairing and raising the technical bar across squads.

Benefits

  • Flexible Workstyle: In office 2 -3 days per week, hybrid the rest of the week
  • High-Impact Work: Build products that directly shape Sun Life's future.
  • Leadership Opportunity: Lead technical direction, mentor others, and shape the engineering culture of a growing team.
  • Learn and Grow Fast: Exposure to new technologies, business problems, and the full product lifecycle in a compressed timeframe.
  • Collaborative, Innovative Culture: Work with passionate, talented people who move fast and support each other.

Job title

Staff Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$125,000 - CA$195,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

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