# Manager, Software Design Engineer

**Company**: Sun Life
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

You will turn promising AI concepts into tangible, interactive products that users and business stakeholders can understand, experience, and evaluate.

As a Manager, Software Design Engineer within our Global IT Technology Innovation team, you will bridge business needs, user workflows, product design, and technology.

**Major accountabilities:**

**Rapid AI Product Prototyping**

- Lead the end-to-end design and development of functional web and mobile-friendly Proof-of-Concepts and Minimum Viable Products within accelerated timelines, typically ranging from days to weeks.

- Turn abstract AI capabilities, business ideas, and user requirements into tangible product experiences that stakeholders can interact with and evaluate.

- Use practical and lightweight technical approaches to validate concepts quickly without unnecessarily over-engineering early-stage solutions.

**Frontend Engineering**

- Build responsive, performant, and visually engaging frontend applications using modern frameworks such as React.js and Next.js, or Vue.js and Nuxt.js.

- Develop reusable interface components, interactive workflows, dashboards, data visualisations, and streaming AI experiences.

- Maintain a strong balance between development speed, usability, visual quality, and technical credibility.

**Product and Experience Design**

- Design intuitive and user-centered interfaces that make complex workflows and AI capabilities easy to understand.

- Create user journeys, interactive mock-ups, working prototypes, and presentation-ready demonstrations.

- Define how users interact with AI-generated information, including how they provide inputs, review results, understand recommendations, correct outputs, and make decisions.

- Ensure that the product experience communicates the value of the AI clearly rather than exposing unnecessary technical complexity.

**AI Product Integration**

- Work closely with AI specialists to establishing what would be the best compromise between accuracy, performance, cost of operation, and staying in compliance with local regulations.

- Integrate AI services, APIs, models, and workflows into coherent user-facing products.

- Translate technical AI outputs into meaningful product interactions, visual explanations, decision-support tools, and human review workflows.

**Specialized Knowledge:**

**1. Product Design and Frontend Expertise**

- Strong proficiency in React.js and Next.js, including modern application architecture, or comparable experience with Vue.js and Nuxt.js.

- Deep proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

- Experience with Tailwind CSS, CSS Modules, and modern UI component libraries.

- Strong understanding of user journeys, interaction design, information architecture, usability, responsive design, and visual hierarchy.

**2. AI-Assisted Product Development**

- Strong practical experience using tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar AI-assisted development tools.

- Experience using platforms such as v0, Bolt, Lovable, Figma-to-code tools, or similar systems to accelerate interface development.

- Hands-on experience integrating APIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or internal AI services into user-facing applications.

**3. Backend and Integration Knowledge**

- Working knowledge of Node.js, Express, NestJS, Python, FastAPI, Flask, or serverless functions.

- Familiarity with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, or other lightweight storage solutions.

- Experience deploying prototypes using Vercel, AWS, Azure, Docker, or comparable platforms.

**Requirements:**

- Degree in Engineering related subjects with at least 5 years of industry experience.

- Experience in design engineering, product engineering, forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, innovation consulting, or rapid product development.

- A portfolio demonstrating strong interface design and functional product prototypes.

- Experience working directly with business stakeholders and end users.

- Experience conducting discovery sessions, design workshops, prototype reviews, or user testing.

## Skills

### Required
- React.js
- Next.js
- Vue.js
- Nuxt.js
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- Tailwind CSS
- CSS Modules
- Figma
- Node.js
- Express
- NestJS
- Python
- FastAPI
- Flask
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Vercel
- AWS
- Azure
- Docker

### Nice to have
- AI-assisted development tools
- AI UI and UX generators
- LLM integration
- AI application frameworks

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