Lead Full Stack Software Engineer
Company: Manulife
Location: Boston, MA
Salary: $127,330 - $236,470 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-05-15
About this role
The Lead Full Stack Engineer is accountable for defining, scaling, and continuously improving a core technology practice that underpins business strategy and delivery outcomes. This role combines deep technical expertise, practice governance, and people leadership to ensure the practice delivers high-quality, cost-effective, and modern solutions aligned with enterprise priorities.
This lead acts as the technical authority, talent steward, and strategic partner for the practice including owning standards, capabilities, delivery health, and the long-term evolution of skills, tools, and ways of working.
Position Responsibilities:
- Define and own the vision, roadmap, and operating model for the technology practice, aligned to enterprise strategy and architectural direction.
- Serve as the senior technical escalation point and subject-matter authority for complex products in Collateral, Derivatives and Investment Accounting technology and address delivery challenges within the practice.
- Partner with Architecture, Product, Delivery, and Business leaders to shape solutions and investment priorities.
- Own and drive resolution of complex, cross-cutting technical challenges across three products, ensuring scalability, resilience, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
- Provide technical leadership and hands-on guidance to product-level Technical Leads, supporting design decisions, implementation strategies, and risk mitigation.
- Act as the primary escalation point for critical technical issues, balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term platform sustainability.
- Collaborate with product, architecture, and senior technology stakeholders to shape technical roadmaps and align product execution with strategic objectives.
- Ensure the practice consistently delivers high-quality outcomes across multiple initiatives, balancing speed, risk, and sustainability.
- Monitor practice health using defined KPIs (quality, velocity, reliability, cost, an...