Who we are

We help Manulife transform. Our strengths lie within experimentation and continuous learning, which allow us to build an organization comprised of squads thriving on change.

 

The Manulife Engineering Team at the 2019 HackITOut AKS Challenge

Our mission

We encourage, educate, and support you so you can master your skills and make a meaningful impact.

Propelled by curiosity

We’re growing fast. We focus on engineering and want to define the future through experimentation.

Scale for impact

We help more than 1000 engineers world-wide do what we all love. Every product you touch has a real impact.

Learn with the best

Manulife Technology attracts talented people, providing them with a world-class team to learn from and learn with. 

Our culture

Technology

Your favorite tools, programs and languages. We continuously teach new technologies to keep the stack rolling.

Benefits

We provide the same benefits to our employees that we would for our customers.

Workspace

Sit wherever you want with our unassigned floorplan! Regroup with friends in the cafeteria. Oh, and play some foosball!

Environment

Relaxed, social, and productive! Join a community of people who want to help you do your best.

Level-up

Go from Intermediate to Advanced with our continuous learning programs.

Work hours

Head home in time for dinner! We want you to have a healthy work-life balance.

Collaborate

As you would expect for a technology team, we collaborate virtually via Slack, Zoom, Jira, & Confluence – but we prefer face-to-face where possible.

Naveed Zahid in front of an engineering employee training room

“We are passionate coaches that ignite the spirit of learning at Manulife; equipping our students with the building blocks to conquer any challenge.”

Naveed Zahid
TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER

“We are small but mighty. We wear hoodies not suits. We are trailblazers who embrace change and chaos. Transformation is in our name and levelling up is our game.”

Gennifer Burton
TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER

Image of Gennifer Berton

Our technology

We’re striving to be the most digital, customer-centric global company in our industry.

Take a glance at our technological journey. We’re on a path of transformation and we want you to join us.

 

2017

REDEFINING OURSELVES

  • A culture of experimenting and failing fast
  • Initiate adoption of modern tooling
    • Slack, GitLab, Concourse
  • Ideate internal training program “Manulife University” (MU)
  • In-house engineers prioritized first
 

2018

ADAPTING & ACCELERATING

  • Launch MU with first Manulife engineering cohort
  • IT framework redesign to focus on engineering talent and grooming
  • Eliminate gross work
    • Jenkins Pipelines and Continuous Integration fully established
  • Developed multiple internal channels for self-paced learning
 

2019

SHARING OUR HUMANITY

  • Launch community partnerships & sponsorships
    • True North, Hack the North, Startup Fest
  • Internal Engagement Programs
    • UN-conference, HackITOut
  • MU team wins Manulife award “Stars of Excellence”
 

2020

DEFINING THE FUTURE OF WORK

  • Create, mentor and partake in hackathons and technical challenges
  • Invest time and effort in programs to enable Women in Tech to thrive
  • Improving digital communication across the company
  • Launch blogs, collaboration and social media channels

Our work

Live the amazing experiences with people who demonstrate our values, care deeply about growth, and empathize with those we’re building the product for.

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