Senior Application Developer (React / AWS)
Job ID: 8646
Working Business Language: This role is considered a head-office role and will be required to communicate with internal stakeholders across Canada where the primary business language utilized is English.
Salary: At Wawanesa, salary is only one component of a holistic, comprehensive and competitive offering that we provide to our employees. In addition to salary, full-time and part-time permanent employees are eligible for an annual bonus plan, leave of absence top-up programs and provided with generous vacation time, personal days, premium free benefits and pension plan.
The salary offered for this role is determined with consideration to various factors, including but not limited to: your work location, local labour market conditions, external market salary data, internal pay equity and the knowledge, skills, experience and anticipated proficiency in the role. The salary offered is estimated to be within the following range: $95, 000 - $115, 000. Candidates with salary expectations outside of the range are still encouraged to apply.
About Us
At Wawanesa, we're proud to offer a hybrid work environment that offers flexibility to our employees in balancing in-office (2 days per week OR 15 hours per week in a Wawanesa office) and remote work. You may work from any of the following locations: Winnipeg, MB; Wawanesa, MB; Vancouver, BC; Calgary, AB; Edmonton, AB; Lethbridge, AB; Toronto, ON; Kitchener, ON; Thunder Bay, ON; Ottawa, ON; Montreal, QC; Moncton, NB; Dartmouth; NS
The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company ("Wawanesa Mutual"), founded in 1896, is one of Canada's largest mutual insurers, with over $3.5 billion in annual revenue and assets of $10 billion (CAD). Wawanesa Mutual, with its National Headquarters in Winnipeg, is the parent company of Wawanesa Life, which provides life insurance products and services throughout Canada, and Western Financial Group, which distributes personal and business insurance across Canada. Wawanesa proudly serves more than 1.7 million members in Canada, and we are home to more than 3,600 employees distributed across the Canadian regions and communities where we operate. We give back to organizations that strengthen communities, donating more than $3.5 million annually to charitable organizations, including over $2 million annually in support of people on the front lines of climate change. To learn more visit wawanesa.com.
We are currently looking for dedicated, driven, and enthusiastic individuals who thrive in an environment that welcomes change and are looking for an opportunity for diverse experience and advancement on a growing team.
Job Overview
The Senior Developer will be part of our Life Edge Digital Delivery team and contributes to Wawanesa's success by designing, documenting, developing, testing, and supporting system solutions to meet business stakeholder requirements.
The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and enjoy working in an agile scrum team that facilitates rapid design, development and implementation of application changes that embodies a passion for continuous improvement and test-driven development. You will have experience with establishing best practices, mentoring, process improvement and technical proficiency with React.
Our Life Edge area is beginning a large business and technology transformation. As well as maturing our current delivery processes and practices.
This is a great opportunity to help change the direction of Life Edge Digital Delivery and put your stamp on our company.
Job Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and test software.
- Prepare technical specifications from requirements.
- Maintain the operation of business systems and applications.
- Assist solution analysts with clarifying business request details.
- Mentor other developers.
- Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve application incidents.
- Participate in planning activities.
- Estimate and track progress of assigned work.
- Create and update relevant documentation.
- Follow and contribute to improving established practices, processes, and guidelines.
- Keep current with relevant technologies.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Completion of Post-secondary degree or diploma in software development or equivalent experience.
- Four years of practical experience performing an application development role building software using current programming languages/techniques and working with relational database systems and structured query languages or equivalent knowledge/experience.
- Effective communication skills, with the ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner with style fitting for the audience and message.
- Experience developing user interfaces with React, developing APIs, secure web development practices, utilizing AWS components.
- Must be able to work with VS Code, JIRA, Confluence, Git, CodeCommit and GitHub
- Detail oriented with analytical and problem-solving skills to recognize and identify issues and take proper action to resolve them. Must be able to understand complex/complicated concepts and work with them or turn them into elegant, streamlined solutions.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment by making quality contributions and supporting fellow team members. Ideal candidate is a team player.
- Effective organizational skills with the ability to self-manage a fluctuating workload, with various situations and changing priorities.
- Ability to provide timely responses via Instant Messaging platform.
- Possesses a willingness to learn while keeping abreast of developments in field and have the ability to apply learning to new situations.
- Experience with the following is considered an asset:
- Amazon Web Services Well Architected Framework.
- POSIX/Linux/Unix systems.
- Modernizing custom frameworks.
- Delivering demos to clients and business contacts
- Familiarity with Windows; MySQL; Microsoft SQL Server; NoSQL is considered an asset.
- Certifications in relevant technology is considered an asset.
- Knowledge and experience in the Insurance industry is considered an asset.
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