Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Onsite
You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.
Job Description:
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.
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 learner 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
The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.
Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.com.
We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you! Several work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.
We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.
We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Salary Range:
125,000/125 000 - 195,000/195 000Job Category:
IT - Application DevelopmentPosting End Date:
31/07/2026Want to know if this job is worth applying to?