Staff Engineer

Job Description

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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

• Seniorengineerfrom 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 onexpertisewith 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 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