Full Stack Developer

We are Canada Life

Being a part of Canada Life means you have a voice. This is a place where your unique background, perspectives and talents are valued, and shape our future success.

You can be your best here. You’re part of a diverse and inclusive workplace where your career and well-being are championed. You’ll have the opportunity to excel in your way, finding new and better ways to deliver exceptional customer and advisor experiences.

Together, as part of a great team, you’ll deliver on our shared purpose to improve the well-being of Canadians. It’s our driving force. Become part of a strong and successful company that’s trusted by millions of Canadians to do the right thing. 

Be your best at Canada Life.

We are looking for a  Full Stack Developer 

Given the size and scope of our organization, we have the flexibility for this position to be located in the following head office locations: Toronto, London or Winnipeg. 

Role description 

Full Stack Developer play a significant role on our engineering team, developing the user facing applications for our company’s websites, functional and mobile web applications. Full Stack Developer collaborate openly in an Agile development environment with other members of engineering and user experience teams, including Architects, QA, User interaction & User interface designers, as well as Project Managers. They participate in our UI development processes by establishing and documenting development standards and common components for common usage across all of our web applications.

Our Full Stack Developer are responsible for building semantic, WCAG compliant, responsive, maintainable and performant solutions that meet business requirements and project goals while lining up with future strategic visions.

What you’ll do

• Design and build applications and provide designers with feedback and suggest trade-offs when required
• Ensure the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards
• Work closely with other developers to understand and properly use the systems APIs
• Write both unit and integration tests and develop automation tools for daily tasks
• Challenge ideas and opinions to avoid pitfalls and inefficient solutions
• Help and mentor other members of the team
• Developing front-end UI's that meet all AODA compliance requirement

Qualifications:
 

• University or College education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field, or equivalent combination of education experience.
• 2 - 5 years of industry experience.
• Expert proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• A high level of proficiency with JavaScript frameworks Vue & React
• A high level of experience building UI layouts using SASS, LESS, and the CSS GRID system
• Comprehensive knowledge of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and related techniques for building compliant web applications.
• A solid understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues, and ways to work around them
• Demonstrated experience in incorporating reliable unit and end-to-end testing
• Good knowledge and practical experience of build tools like Webpack, Rollup etc.
• Good working knowledge of Java & Spring
• Good understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
• Good understanding of NoSQL and SQL databases
• Significant experience debugging using browser-based tools like Chrome Developer Console
• Some exposure to Continuous Integration/Delivery pipeline for cloud, including Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker, etc.
• Some experience working in an agile environment using tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to work well in a fast paced team oriented environment.

Be your best at Canada Life- Apply today 

We are one of Canada's top 100 employers!

Canada Life serves?the financial security needs of more than 13 million people across Canada, with additional operations in Europe and the United States. As members of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies, we’re one of Canada’s leading insurers with interests in life insurance, health insurance, investment and retirement savings. We offer a broad portfolio of financial and benefit plan solutions for individuals, families, businesses and organizations. 

We are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we live, and to creating an environment where every employee?has the opportunity to?reach their potential.

Canada Life?would like to thank all applicants, however only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted

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