Senior Backend Engineer

*Current Canadian work authorization is strongly preferred. Visa sponsorship may be considered on an exceptional basis for highly qualified candidates who possess specialized skills critical to this role.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will have a hand in architecting the technology and customer experience that are pivotal to multiple web products for patients, pharmacies and other customers of NimbleRx (www.nimblerx.com). You will join a team of world-class, highly motivated software engineers who build for performance, reliability, and scalability. You will work closely with other developers, as well as with groups such as product management and design, to understand feature requirements and functional and technical use cases. With your colleagues, you will work to deliver high-quality code on time.

Our engineering culture: We operate with shared trust and no egos. We enjoy being "in this together" and collaborating on the challenges of a rapidly scaling business. We daily live out our company values of empathy, simplicity, autonomy, leadership, ownership, burning curiosity, bias for action, mentorship, and operate with context, not control, in a highly collaborative environment.

You will:

• Build a scalable platform, API, and services that people love to use
• Take ownership of backend features, from design to implementation to release
• Mentor junior engineers and interns
• Promote best practices and high-quality development techniques
• Tackle tough design and technical problems
• Enhance our systems' usability and performance, ensuring a consistent user experience

What you bring:

• 5+ years of experience with backend APIs, services, and platform development
• Rich development experience with Java, Spring, and SQL
• Experience developing scalable, customer-facing, web-based applications
• Excellent communication skills
• Nice to have: experience with React, Terraform / Terragrunt, or AWS

About you:

• You are mission-driven and want to write code that makes a difference
• You take pride in your work and deliver high-quality code on time
• You are an innovator with good ideas, strong problem-solving abilities, and a results-oriented attitude
• You value and take responsibility for the quality of your features; you test your own code and review your teammates' code
• You have good judgment on project priority
• You deliver high-value features with simple and fast solutions
• You own complex projects end-to-end with minimal guidance; you take a leadership or driver role in the engineering process throughout planning, designing, delivery, and maintenance

What's in it for you:

• Compassionate and driven colleagues in a fun environment where success is celebrated
• Accelerated career growth in a fast-growing company
• Coaching from experienced engineering leaders
• Direct access to executives and a transparent company culture
• Rare opportunity to change an industry and lives of millions
• We are reinventing healthcare / pharmacy - your (grand)parents and your (grand)children will understand and appreciate what you do
• Medical / Dental / Vision
• Flexible Vacation Time Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Work with a collaborative team out of our office at WaterPark Place, in the Harbourfront area just south of Union Station