Job Description
:Prospris Sun Life's digital front door for Canadians — startup velocity inside a Fortune 500.We'rerevolutionizing how Canadians access insurance and wealth solutions by building a platform that lets people buy products the way they want to: online in minutes orvirtually viaa team of trusted, licensed Advisors.
We move fast. We test ideas in production. We use AI to cut friction and ship the experience customers expect.
The Role
You are the fixer. Theunblocker. The engineer people pull in when things get messy.
As Staff Engineer onProspryou take on the hardest problems and get them shipped. You turn fuzzy ideas into working software. You bridge architecture and production. You set the bar for quality and pace across squads by prototyping fast,diagnosing incidents,managing technicaldebtand making tough calls.
What You'll Do
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 optionstrade-offsand recommendations
Collaborate with Architects—make sure designsactually workin production, not just on whiteboards
Rapid prototyping—validateapproaches before squads commit sprint cycles
Coach senior engineers and raise the bar across the team
Unblock squads—whenthey'restuck on hard problems (security, integrations, performance, architecture)
Influence technical direction to cut rework speed up decisions and keep releases moving
Bridge architecture and reality—ensure designs survive contact with production
What Success Looks Like
Teams ship faster because you kill friction. Big bets land because you prove the approach early. Engineers level up because you coach in the trenches. Leaders trust you to make the call when it is noisy.
Who You Are
Lead engineerfrom a tech startup or digital product company
Deep technical expertwho can jump across backend frontend integrations data and AI and keep learning
Hands-on builderwho can whip up prototypes and debug production systems
Strong technical communicatorwho can explain complex concepts to Product, Architects, and leadership
Comfortable with ambiguity and able to turn emerging requirements into shippable plans
Startup mindsetyou ship fast without breaking the basics
Comfortable influencing without authority
Continuouslearnerin anever-changingtechnology landscape
What You Bring
8+ years of professional software engineering experience with senior level ownership and cross team influence
Hands-on lead level expertisewith Java,React (or other similar modern Javascript) and enterprise integrations. Salesforce experience would be an asset.
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 from planning to build to release tooperatewith measurable outcomes
Experience setting and running an engineering operating cadence across prioritization,planning,execution,dependencies quality and incident learnings
Experience partnering with Product,Design,and senior stakeholders to navigate trade-offs risk and timelines in a complex environment
Strongtrack recorddeveloping talent through mentoring pairing and raising the technical bar across squads
Why This Role
High-Impact Work: Build products that directly shape Sun Life's future, with your code reaching real users quickly
Leadership Opportunity: Lead technical direction, mentor others, and shape the engineering culture of a growing team
Learn and Grow Fast: Exposure tonew technologies, business problems, and the full product lifecycle in a compressedtimeframe
Collaborative, Innovative Culture: Work with passionate, talented people who move fast and support each other
Flexible Workstyle: In office 2-3days per week, hybrid the rest of the week
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