Platform Developer, Backend

Dialogue; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Access to virtual mental health support

Fully funded insurance and health spending account

4 weeks vacation and wellness days

Work abroad opportunities

Incentive plans and RRSP matching

Learning via Coursera and mentorship

Optional parental leave top-up

Parental leave support

Job summary

A leading virtual care provider in Canada, seeks a Platform Developer, Backend, to enhance its platform tools and services. This mid-senior level role focuses on writing maintainable code, developing backend services, and ensuring system reliability. The ideal candidate has 3-5 years of experience in distributed architectures and must be bilingual in French and English. The position offers a hybrid work environment and various benefits for well-being.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience with distributed service-oriented architectures.
• Bilingualism required for communication in French and English.
• Enjoys creating long-term business value with platform technologies.
• Familiarity with data synchronization architectures, or willingness to learn on the job.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development is a plus.
• Bilingualism is essential; you may be required to communicate in French and English.

Responsibilities

• Write readable and testable code with maintained test suites.
• Implement fault-tolerant backend services and platform systems.
• Contribute to the development of data pipelines for information management.
• Monitor system performance ensuring high availability.
• Monitor system performance and reliability, implementing improvements as necessary to ensure high availability
• Ensure the security and compliance of the platform with industry standards and regulations
• Improve the skills and effectiveness of other developers across the company through code review, documentation, and direct guidance
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices, and apply them to improve the platform

Skills

Distributed architectures

Service-oriented architectures

Event-driven architectures

Data synchronization

Test-Driven Development

Bilingual communication (French and English)

Job description

Overview

Your role as Platform Developer, Backend

The Platform team at Dialogue is looking for a Platform Developer, Backend to work on the platform tools and services that power Dialogue’s software products.

About the Platform Development team

Dialogue’s Integrated Health Platform supports the health and wellness of millions of people across 49,000+ organizations. We operate a reliable, highly-available, multi-tenant software architecture that powers several white-label mobile applications for our members, as well as desktop software used by our operations team to deliver care.

The Platform team’s mission is to streamline the development of these products by building and operating valuable platform technologies. These technologies aim to improve the security, reliability, and agility of the architecture and its data integrations as we continue to grow.

What you’ll be doing

• Write precise, readable and testable code and maintainable test suites that constitute a good example for other Dialogue developers
• Implement and maintain highly available and fault-tolerant backend services and platform systems
• Contribute to the development and improvement of data pipelines to ensure effective management of information flows
• Write and participate in the development and communication of technical design documents to align the team on clear solutions
• Monitor system performance and reliability, implementing improvements as necessary to ensure high availability
• Ensure the security and compliance of the platform with industry standards and regulations
• Improve the skills and effectiveness of other developers across the company through code review, documentation, and direct guidance
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices, and apply them to improve the platform

Our team also owns the following platform capabilities:

• Workflow orchestration
• Data Warehouse Infrastructure
• User authentication and authorization
• A member engagement platform

We design, build, maintain, and operate a variety of components, including HTTP services, data pipelines, libraries, and infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of meaningful experience working on distributed, service-oriented architectures
• Enjoy creating long-term business value with platform technologies and comfortable designing software and communicating decisions
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, or willingness to learn on the job
• Familiarity with data synchronization architectures, or willingness to learn on the job
• Experience with Test-Driven Development is a plus
• Bilingualism is essential; you may be required to communicate in French and English

Please note that as we serve customers across Canada, bilingualism is essential for this position. You may be required to communicate in French and English.

Benefits and culture

At Dialogue, your well-being is our priority. Depending on your role and employment status, you could have access to the following benefits:

• Access to the Dialogue app and virtual mental health support for you and your family
• Fully funded insurance, a health spending account, dental coverage, and fitness reimbursement
• 4 weeks vacation, 9 wellness days, and 1 volunteer day
• Hybrid work: 3 days/week in our Montreal or Toronto offices, excluding remote roles
• Work abroad up to 4 weeks/year
• Incentive plans, referral bonuses & RRSP matching
• Learning via Coursera, external training budget & mentorship
• Optional parental leave top-up

About Dialogue

Dialogue is the #1 virtual care provider in Canada. We provide exceptional online health and wellness programs to organizations that want to improve the wellness of their employees and families.

We’re a diverse and inclusive workplace. Qualified applicants will be considered regardless of citizenship, ethnicity, race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, or veteran status. Applicants who require specialized accommodation are encouraged to contact [e-mail].

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Technology, Information and Internet

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