Android Developer

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

About The Role

Sun Life’s Mobile chapter is looking for an Android Developer to join our dynamic and diverse team. Our mission is to create, develop and maintain first-class native mobile apps on Android and iOS for our clients, helping them achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.

We are a multi-site team (Montréal, Toronto, Waterloo, and Gurgaon in India) that values communication, collaboration, transparency, and integrity.

What you will do:

As an Android Developer, you will be joining one of our agile teams.

• Develop new features and improvements on Android and ensure quality throughout the development process.
• Collaborate with Scrum Masters, Mobile Developers, Business System Analysts, User Experience architects and Testing Specialists to deliver high quality solutions.
• Be involved in scrum ceremonies to plan, estimate, design, develop and test features for deployment into production.
• Work on projects involving 3rd party and offshore teams.
• Participate in the discovery and evaluation of new technologies.
  
  

What You Need To Succeed

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education/experience.
• 1+ years of experience with native mobile development on Android, including continuous integration and automation.
• 2+ years of software development experience.
• Ability to write clean and scalable code in Kotlin and Java, respecting SOLID principles.
• Capability of building, debugging, profiling and optimizing Android Apps.
• Experience with REST / SOAP or any other Web API standards, knowledge of JSON / XML formats.
• Familiar with Test Driven Development (TDD) and ability to write Unit, Integration and UI tests.
• As this position is posted in several locations, we specify that bilingualism (French, English, both oral and written) is required for Quebec only for the frequent interactions with English and French-speaking colleagues or internal partners across Canada or worldwide.
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Experience in Agile/Scrum framework.
• Knowledge of common Android design patterns (VIPER, MVVM).
• Knowledge of RxJava/RXKotlin, Coroutines, Fragment-to-Fragment through interfaces.
• Knowledge of DevOps tools: Jenkins, Splunk, Artifactory.
• Great analytical skills, able to assess alternatives, risks, and benefits; attention to detail.
• Teamwork with ability to work in collaboration with others (technical and non-technical).
• Good communication, motivation and client-focus.
• Good organizational and time management skills.
• English is a requirement for this role and working knowledge of French.
  
  

What’s in it for you?

• We’re proud to be recognized as a company with a 2024 Most Trusted Executive team by Great Place to Work® Canada
• Access to short-term assignments or ‘Gigs’ across the organization, to help you develop new skills and connections.
• A collaborative and interactive team environment
• Charitable giving through our You Give, We Give program lets you give back to your community – and in many cases, we’ll match your contributions.
• Care Days available for self-care or care of others (i.e., family or others you may support) and Sick Days to support your well-being.
  
  

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request to [email protected].

We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you! Several work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Salary Range:

65,000/65 000 - 105,000/105 000

Job Category:

IT - Application Development

Posting End Date:

04/01/2026