Canada Life is an insurance and financial services company with its headquarters in Winnipeg, Manitoba. we provide a wide range of insurance and wealth management products for individuals, families, and business owners from coast to coast. Canada Life is focused on improving the financial, physical and mental well-being of Canadians and believes in good corporate governance. Our Technology team is a strategic partner in our business – with an ambition to be a forward-thinking, agile technology organization delivering secure, resilient, and leading solutions that support Canada Life and the well-being of millions of Canadians.

Job Description –Full Stack Lead Developer

Role Summary

The Full Stack Developer plays a critical role on the engineering team, responsible for building and supporting secure, scalable, and performant user-facing applications and backend services.

This role contributes across the full technology stack—front end, backend services, integration, and data—delivering solutions that meet business requirements while aligning with long-term strategic architecture.

The Full Stack Developer works in a collaborative Agile environment alongside Architects, UX/UI designers, Quality Assurance, Business Systems Analysts, and Product / Project Managers. They are expected to contribute to development standards, reusable components, and best practices across the organization's digital platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Application Development

• Design, develop, test, and maintain responsive, accessible, and maintainable web applications and supporting backend services.

• Build modern user interfaces using JavaScript frameworks and component-based architectures.

• Develop backend services using Java and Spring Boot to support Single Page Applications and external integrations.

• Ensure applications are performant, secure, scalable, and aligned with enterprise architectural standards.

• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and service interfaces.

Technical Standards & Quality

• Write well-structured, testable, and efficient code following agreed coding standards and best practices.

• Participate in code reviews, PR reviews, and continuous improvement of code quality.

• Define and contribute to shared frameworks, reusable components, and development standards.

• Ensure solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements, including accessibility (WCAG) compliance.

Delivery & Collaboration

• Contribute across all phases of the development lifecycle, from design through build, test, and release.

• Work closely with Business Analysts, QA, Architects, and other developers to translate requirements into technical solutions.

• Support testing activities through unit testing and end-to-end testing.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.

• Provide guidance and mentoring to junior developers as required.

Operations & DevOps

• Support CI/CD pipelines and automated build processes.

• Assist with diagnosing and resolving production and non-production issues.

• Contribute to release preparation and ongoing application support.

• Work within cloud-based and containerised deployment environments.

Required Qualifications & Experience

Education & Experience

• University or college education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5–7 years of professional software development experience across front-end and backend technologies.

Front-End Skills

• Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Vue, React).

• Strong experience with responsive UI design using SASS, LESS, and modern CSS layout techniques (e.g. CSS Grid).

• Solid understanding of cross-browser compatibility and client-side debugging tools.

• Experience building accessible applications compliant with WCAG guidelines.

Backend & Integration Skills

• Proven experience developing applications using Java and Spring Boot.

• Experience designing and building Microservices and RESTful APIs.

• Experience in Cloud technology -AWS 

• Exposer is Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS),Docker, Kafka ,Swagger

• Strong understanding of modular and service-based architectures.

• Experience integrating backend services with front-end applications.

Data & Persistence

• Working knowledge of MongoDB.

• Familiarity with other NoSQL and relational databases.

Tooling & DevOps

• Strong working knowledge of Git or similar version control systems.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker, GitLab, or equivalent.

• Exposure to cloud-first development and containerised environments (e.g. AWS-based deployments).

Ways of Working

• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.

• Familiarity with tools such as Jira and Confluence.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

• Comfortable working in fast-paced, collaborative, and evolving environments.

Desirable Assets

• Experience contributing to shared platforms, frameworks, or component libraries.

• Experience mentoring junior developers or supporting development standards.

• Knowledge on Appian product ,Ingenium Product.

• Exposure to large-scale enterprise digital platforms and multi-team delivery models.