Software Engineer Technical Lead

Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead (This is an ideal opportunity for a senior technical leader who enjoys remaining hands-on)

Industry: Healthcare

Location: Ontario (Hybrid) | Canada (Remote )

Type: Permanent position

We're looking for a seasoned Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead (8–12+ years of experience) to help us reimagine the future of care delivery. This is an opportunity to join a growing healthcare organization where you'll have a direct impact on the architecture, design, and development of a mission-critical platform that supports care delivery at scale.

Candidates located within Ontario will work in a hybrid environment, while candidates located outside Ontario may be considered for a fully remote arrangement.

This is an ideal opportunity for a senior technical leader who enjoys remaining hands-on. We are seeking someone who can provide architectural leadership and technical direction while continuing to contribute directly to the codebase. You will spend approximately 30–50% of your time coding, while also mentoring a small engineering team of approximately seven people and helping drive day-to-day technical execution.

About the Role

• Your first mission will be to take technical ownership of a newly formed team responsible for rebuilding our care delivery platform from the ground up across both Mobile and Web using modern technologies and cloud-native architecture.
• This is a highly visible initiative with executive support and significant business impact. You'll have the opportunity to influence product direction, technology choices, engineering practices, and architectural standards from day one.
• As the Technical Lead, you'll serve as the primary technical decision-maker for the team, helping guide architecture, mentor engineers, establish development standards, and partner closely with Product, QA, and DevOps while remaining actively involved in software development.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical strategy and architecture for a healthcare platform.
• Lead architectural decisions, system design, and technology selection.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and day-to-day guidance to a small team of approximately seven engineers.
• Contribute hands-on to software development, spending approximately 30–50% of your time coding, reviewing code, and building critical features.
• Design scalable, secure, and resilient distributed systems.
• Establish engineering best practices for source control, branching strategies, testing, code quality, documentation, and deployment.
• Ensure security, compliance, performance, and reliability are foundational to all technical decisions.
• Design data architecture, persistence strategies, consistency models, disaster recovery approaches, and synchronization patterns across services.
• Design and implement integrations with internal systems, third-party platforms, and business applications such as Salesforce and healthcare-related systems.
• Define service boundaries, domain decomposition strategies, and architectural patterns.
• Partner closely with DevOps teams to align architecture with operational and deployment requirements.
• Collaborate with Product and cross-functional stakeholders to translate business objectives into technical solutions.
• Evaluate and prototype emerging technologies that improve care delivery and patient outcomes.

Required Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proven experience leading architecture initiatives and providing technical leadership to engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on software development experience with the ability and desire to remain actively involved in coding.
• Expertise building scalable, mission-critical distributed systems.
• Strong backend development experience using Java, Spring Boot, or similar enterprise technologies.
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, React Native, or equivalent technologies.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong understanding of security best practices, access controls, compliance, and production-grade system design.
• Experience designing and implementing third-party integrations and API-driven systems.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, performance optimization, and persistence strategies.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity, influence technical decisions, and build alignment across teams.

Strongly Preferred

• Experience applying Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles in complex business environments.
• Experience designing event-driven architectures and asynchronous communication patterns.
• Experience working within regulated industries.

Nice to Have

• Healthcare technology experience.
• Familiarity with healthcare terminology standards such as ICD-10.
• Experience with healthcare data standards including FHIR, HL7v2, and EMPI.
• Understanding of clinical, administrative, or care delivery workflows.

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to shape a healthcare platform from the ground up.
• Significant ownership and influence over technical direction.
• Small, collaborative engineering team where your contributions have immediate impact.
• Balance of technical leadership and hands-on development.
• Meaningful work that directly impacts how care is delivered and experienced by thousands of people.
• Flexibility through hybrid or remote work arrangements depending on location.