Staff Engineer

Sun Life

Toronto, CAonsitePosted Jun 12, 2026
Posting intelligenceActively listed

Skills

salesforcejavascriptreactjavavue

About the role

Vous êtes unique, comme le sont votre parcours, votre expérience et votre façon de voir les choses. Ici, on vous encourage et on vous motive à donner le meilleur de vous-même, et on vous donne les moyens de le faire. Vous travaillerez avec des collègues dynamiques – experts dans leur domaine – qui sont impatients de partager leurs connaissances avec vous. Vous aurez des gestionnaires inspirants qui vous aideront à développer votre potentiel et à atteindre de nouveaux sommets. Chaque jour, vous aurez de nouvelles occasions de rendre la vie de nos Clients plus radieuse – ils sont au cœur de tout ce que nous faisons. Découvrez comment vous pouvez faire une différence dans la vie des gens, des familles, des collectivités – ici et partout dans le monde.

Description de poste:

Prospr is Sun Life's digital front door for Canadians - startup velocity inside a Fortune 500. We're revolutionizing how Canadians access insurance and wealth solutions by building a platform that lets people buy products the way they want to: online in minutes or virtually via a 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.

For candidates with these preferred skills, exceptions beyond the usual salary range below may be possible.

The Role

You are the fixer. The unblocker . The engineer people pull in when things get messy.

As Staff Engineer on Prospr you 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 technical debt and 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 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 (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 engineer from a tech startup or digital product company

Deep technical expert who can jump across backend frontend integrations data and AI and keep learning

Hands-on builder who can whip up prototypes and debug production systems

Strong technical communicator who can explain complex concepts to Product, Architects, and leadership

Comfortable with ambiguity and able to turn emerging requirements into shippable plans

Startup mindset you ship fast without breaking the basics

Comfortable influencing without authority

Continuous learn er in an ever-changing technology landscape

What You Bring

8+ years of professional software engineering experience with senior level ownership and cross team influence

Hands-on lead level expertise with 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 to operate with 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

Strong track record developing 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 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

Flexible Workstyle: In office 2 -3 days per week, hybrid the rest of the week

L’échelle du salaire de base est pour l’emplacement principal du poste affiché. Elle peut varier selon l’emplacement du candidat sélectionné et d’autres facteurs. En plus du salaire de base, les employés admissibles de la Sun Life participent à différents programmes de rémunération incitative, dont le montant octroyé est discrétionnaire et dépend du rendement de l’employé et de la compagnie. Certains postes de vente participent à des programmes de rémunération incitative basés sur les résultats de vente individuels ou de groupe.

Depuis toujours, la diversité et l’inclusion sont au cœur des valeurs de la Sun Life. Nous croyons qu’un effectif diversifié, aux points de vue variés et aux idées créatives, est avantageux pour nos Clients, pour les collectivités où nous exerçons nos activités et pour nous tous, en tant que collègues. Nous accueillons avec enthousiasme les candidatures de personnes compétentes provenant de tous les horizons.

Nous sommes fiers d’être une organisation hybride qui offre aux employés le choix et la flexibilité de travailler au bureau ou à distance, selon les besoins de l’entreprise, ceux des Clients et les vôtres! Nous offrons plusieurs options de travail selon les exigences du poste et les besoins individuels. N’hésitez pas à en discuter pendant le processus de sélection.

Nous pouvons utiliser l'intelligence artificielle pour soutenir la recherche des candidats, la présélection et la planification des entrevues.

Nous remercions toutes les personnes qui auront manifesté leur intérêt pour ce poste. Nous ne communiquerons qu’avec celles retenues pour une entrevue.

Échelle salariale :

125,000/125 000 - 195,000/195 000

Développement d'applications - TI

Fin de l'affichage :

31/07/2026

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