Software Developer Backend

What You Will Work On

As a backend developer at Cohesic, you will be involved in all aspects of product development ranging from core infrastructure development, to requirements elicitation and analysis, and more. You'll be part of a team building groundbreaking technologies in the healthcare space – ones that will improve the lives of many people – on the Cohesic DI platform. As a team member, you'll wear multiple hats as we work together on complex features and continuous improvement.

Our Team Values

At Cohesic, we value: grit, the ability to persevere despite setbacks; respect, for our coworkers, our customers, and ourselves; continuous learning, the mentality that any experience, good or bad, is an opportunity for growth; empowerment, enabling and encouraging autonomy and self-organization with the power to make change; and trust, to know that everyone is working together towards a common goal.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Design and develop new features on the Cohesic DI platform using Clojure, Scala, and PostgreSQL
• Participate in collaborative design sessions ranging from software architecture to UI and UX
• Write and maintain professional-quality code with a focus on patient safety and privacy
• Write and maintain test suites from unit tests up to end-to-end tests
• Write and maintain functional engineering documentation and guides
• Coordinate with quality assurance analysts on test processes, and defect correction
• Continually interact with team members and sometimes external partners via Microsoft Teams, Azure DevOps, and other tools
• Occasionally maintain frontend code using TypeScript and React

Required Background and Expertise for Success in This Role

• Authorization to work in Canada (or in country of residence if remote)
• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of experience in software development on the backend
• 3+ years of experience building web services (e.g. RESTful APIs, RPC, etc.)
• Experience writing unit tests and integration tests
• Experience in functional programming
• Experience with both dynamic and statically typed languages
• Experience in writing and optimizing SQL
• Experience working with git as a VCS
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and practices
• Fluency in English, written and spoken
• Ability to communicate clearly and confidently about technical requirements
• A positive attitude, willing to dive into what is needed for our mutual success

Preferred Expertise

• 5+ years of experience in backend software development
• 5+ years of experience building web services (e.g. RESTful APIs, RPC, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience writing backend code in Clojure and/or Scala
• Experience with real-time systems and/or WebSockets
• Experience working with documented requirements
• Experience writing custom tools to automate tasks
• Experience in *nix and Bash programming

Location

• Main office is in Calgary, AB, Canada
• Remote work possible; must be able to accommodate business hours in ±2 time zones from Mountain Time (i.e. UTC-05:00 to UTC-09:00)