Empower India
Website:
empower.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/empower-india
Industries: Financial Services
Job details:
Our vision for the future is based on the idea that transforming financial lives starts by giving our people the freedom to transform their own. We have a flexible work environment, and fluid career paths. We not only encourage but celebrate internal mobility. We also recognize the importance of purpose, well-being, and work-life balance. Within Empower and our communities, we work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive environment, and our associates dedicate thousands of hours to volunteering for causes that matter most to them.
Chart your own path and grow your career while helping more customers achieve financial freedom. Empower Yourself.
Canada Life is an insurance and financial services company with its headquarters in Winnipeg, Manitoba. we provide a wide range of insurance and wealth management products for individuals, families, and business owners from coast to coast. Canada Life is focused on improving the financial, physical and mental well-being of Canadians and believes in good corporate governance. Our Technology team is a strategic partner in our business – with an ambition to be a forward-thinking, agile technology organization delivering secure, resilient, and leading solutions that support Canada Life and the well-being of millions of Canadians.
Role Summary
Job Description –Full Stack Developer
The Full Stack Developer plays a critical role on the engineering team, responsible for building and supporting secure, scalable, and performant user-facing applications and backend services.
This role contributes across the full technology stack—front end, backend services, integration, and data—delivering solutions that meet business requirements while aligning with long-term strategic architecture.
The Full Stack Developer works in a collaborative Agile environment alongside Architects, UX/UI designers, Quality Assurance, Business Systems Analysts, and Product / Project Managers. They are expected to contribute to development standards, reusable components, and best practices across the organization's digital platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Application Development
- Design, develop, test, and maintain responsive, accessible, and maintainable web applications and supporting backend services.
- Build modern user interfaces using JavaScript frameworks and component-based architectures.
- Develop backend services using Java and Spring Boot to support Single Page Applications and external integrations.
- Ensure applications are performant, secure, scalable, and aligned with enterprise architectural standards.
- Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and service interfaces.
Technical Standards & Quality
- Write well-structured, testable, and efficient code following agreed coding standards and best practices.
- Participate in code reviews, PR reviews, and continuous improvement of code quality.
- Define and contribute to shared frameworks, reusable components, and development standards.
- Ensure solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements, including accessibility (WCAG) compliance.
Delivery & Collaboration
- Contribute across all phases of the development lifecycle, from design through build, test, and release.
- Work closely with Business Analysts, QA, Architects, and other developers to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Support testing activities through unit testing and end-to-end testing.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Provide guidance and mentoring to junior developers as required.
Operations & DevOps
- Support CI/CD pipelines and automated build processes.
- Assist with diagnosing and resolving production and non-production issues.
- Contribute to release preparation and ongoing application support.
- Work within cloud-based and containerised deployment environments.
Required Qualifications & Experience
Education & Experience
- University or college education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3–5 years of professional software development experience across front-end and backend technologies.
Front-End Skills
- Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Vue, React).
- Strong experience with responsive UI design using SASS, LESS, and modern CSS layout techniques (e.g. CSS Grid).
- Solid understanding of cross-browser compatibility and client-side debugging tools.
- Experience building accessible applications compliant with WCAG guidelines.
Backend & Integration Skills
- Proven experience developing applications using Java and Spring Boot.
- Experience designing and building Microservices and RESTful APIs.
- Experience in Cloud technology -AWS
- Exposer is Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS),Docker, Kafka ,Swagger
- Strong understanding of modular and service-based architectures.
- Experience integrating backend services with front-end applications.
Data & Persistence
- Working knowledge of MongoDB.
- Familiarity with other NoSQL and relational databases.
Tooling & DevOps
- Strong working knowledge of Git or similar version control systems.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker, GitLab, or equivalent.
- Exposure to cloud-first development and containerised environments (e.g. AWS-based deployments).
Ways of Working
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
- Familiarity with tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, collaborative, and evolving environments.
Desirable Assets
- Experience contributing to shared platforms, frameworks, or component libraries.
- Experience mentoring junior developers or supporting development standards.
- Knowledge on Appian product ,Ingenium Product.
- Exposure to large-scale enterprise digital platforms and multi-team delivery models.
We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.
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