Join Manulife’s Singapore eBusiness team as an Associate Back-end Software Engineer to help build and scale cloud-native microservices that power our next-generation agency servicing platform—Manulife 365 (M365). You’ll play a key role in delivering secure, resilient, and high-performance back-end solutions that directly enhance how agents and customers interact with our services. This role offers the chance to work with modern Java/Spring technologies on Microsoft Azure, collaborate with global teams, and grow within a culture that values learning, ownership, and real business impact.
Position Responsibilities:
Design, develop, test, and deploy secure, high-performance back-end microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud within Microsoft Azure’s cloud-native ecosystem.
Architect and implement solutions leveraging core Azure services—including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Service Bus, Azure Redis Cache, Azure Key Vault, and Application Insights—for messaging, caching, secrets management, and observability.
Own end-to-end delivery of features through CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps), ensuring smooth deployment, health monitoring, and configuration management via ConfigMaps and secrets in AKS.
Collaborate with offshore and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical solutions that align with cloud architecture standards and Agile delivery practices.
Drive code quality, system reliability, and continuous improvement through peer reviews, performance tuning, documentation, and proactive adoption of cloud best practices.
Required Qualifications:
Minimum of 5 years of hands-on back-end software development experience after graduation.
Proven track record building and maintaining production-grade microservices using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.
Direct experience deploying and operating containerized applications on a major cloud platform—such as Azure, AWS, Alibaba Cloud, or Tencent Cloud—with familiarity in Kubernetes or similar orchestration tools.
Proficient with Git/GitHub workflows and participation in Agile teams using CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related technical field from a nationally recognized university.
Preferred Qualifications:
Graduate of a Tier-1 Chinese university (e.g., Sichuan University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China).
Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure—particularly AKS, Service Bus, Redis Cache, Application Insights, Managed Identities, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Helm charts, YAML manifests).
Familiarity with cloud observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, or Azure Monitor) and secure coding practices (e.g., secrets management, RBAC).
Previous experience working in multinational corporations with global delivery models, English documentation, and cross-time-zone collaboration.
Strong curiosity and adaptability—demonstrated by quickly mastering new cloud platforms or migrating workloads across environments (e.g., from Aliyun to Azure).
When you join our team:
We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.
About Manulife and John Hancock
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