Senior Backend Engineer

📋 Description

• • Join NimbleRx Inc. as a Senior Backend Engineer in Toronto and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of healthcare technology. At Nimble, we are on a mission to revolutionize healthcare by simplifying access, understanding, and management of medical services, starting with building the world's largest and most beloved pharmacy business. As a fast-growing, technology-first startup, we are driven by a passion for perfecting the patient and pharmacist experience. Our culture is built on collaboration, open communication, and deliberate action, enabling us to tackle exciting challenges and achieve rapid growth.
• • In this critical role, you will be instrumental in architecting the technology and customer experience that underpins multiple web products serving patients, pharmacies, and other NimbleRx customers. You will become a vital part of a team comprised of world-class, highly motivated software engineers dedicated to building solutions that are performant, reliable, and scalable. Your work will directly impact the core infrastructure that powers our innovative healthcare solutions.
• • You will collaborate closely with fellow developers, as well as cross-functional teams including product management and design. This collaboration is essential for deeply understanding feature requirements, functional specifications, and technical use cases. Together, you will strive to deliver high-quality code that meets deadlines and exceeds expectations, contributing to the seamless operation of our platform.
• • Our engineering culture at Nimble is founded on shared trust and the absence of egos. We foster a true sense of camaraderie, working collaboratively to overcome the complex challenges inherent in a rapidly scaling business. We embody our company values daily: empathy, simplicity, autonomy, leadership, ownership, burning curiosity, bias for action, and mentorship. We operate with context, not control, in a highly collaborative and supportive environment.
• • Your responsibilities will include:
• • Building and scaling a robust platform, APIs, and services that users find intuitive and valuable.
• • Taking full ownership of backend features, guiding them from initial design and architecture through implementation, testing, and successful release.
• • Mentoring junior engineers and interns, sharing your expertise and fostering their professional development.
• • Championing best practices in software development, promoting high-quality coding standards and efficient development techniques across the team.
• • Tackling complex design and technical problems, devising innovative and effective solutions.
• • Continuously enhancing the usability and performance of our systems to ensure a consistent and superior user experience.
• • Contributing to the strategic technical direction of the backend systems, ensuring alignment with business goals and future growth.
• • Participating actively in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to peers and ensuring code quality and maintainability.
• • Proactively identifying and addressing technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement within the existing codebase.
• • Collaborating with DevOps and SRE teams to ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our production environments.
• • Staying abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, evaluating their potential application to NimbleRx's platform.
• • Contributing to the development of technical documentation, ensuring clarity and completeness for internal and external stakeholders.
• • Participating in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, contributing to efficient project execution.
• • Driving initiatives to improve development processes, tooling, and infrastructure to enhance team productivity and code quality.
• • Playing a key role in the architectural design of new services and features, ensuring they are scalable, maintainable, and align with our technology roadmap.
• • Debugging and resolving complex issues in production environments, minimizing downtime and impact on users.
• • Working with product managers to translate business requirements into technical specifications and actionable development tasks.
• • Contributing to a culture of continuous learning and improvement within the engineering team.
• • This is a rare opportunity to make a significant impact in the healthcare industry, contributing to a mission that will improve the lives of millions. You will be working with a compassionate and driven team in a fun environment where success is celebrated, and your contributions are highly valued. We are reinventing healthcare and pharmacy, and your work will be understood and appreciated by generations to come.