Senior Software Engineer, Health Data

Molecularyou; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Vancouver-based team

Job summary

Molecular You, a health tech company in Vancouver, seeks a senior backend engineer to own platform quality, security, and scalable services. You will work with our scientific product manager to co-design new health report features and ensure robust, compliant delivery of software.

The role focuses on Ruby on Rails and Elixir/Phoenix, with distributed systems work, Terraform/AWS ownership, and a track record of reducing platform entropy while balancing security and performance.

Qualifications

• Production experience with Ruby on Rails and Elixir/Phoenix.
• Experience with distributed systems including async messaging and idempotency.
• Ownership of infrastructure using Terraform and AWS.
• At least one example of reducing platform entropy (migration, deprecation, refactor).
• Experience owning security or compliance decisions end-to-end (HIPAA/PIPEDA context a plus).
• Clear, direct communication able to explain trade-offs to a scientific PM.

Responsibilities

• Own platform quality and consistency across services.
• Drive thoughtful adoption of new technologies.
• Balance security and compliance with delivery.
• Diagnose production issues and drive improvements to resolution.
• Collaborate with scientific PM to co-design health report products.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Elixir Phoenix

Distributed systems

Terraform & AWS

Platform entropy reduction

Security/compliance decisions

Communication

Tools

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

Terraform

AWS

GitHub

Job description

Molecular You is a health tech company that turns complex biomarker science into actionable insight for everyday people. We're looking for a senior backend engineer to own platform quality — consistency across services, thoughtful tech adoption, security and compliance, and shipping things through to done. Compensation is $120,000–$140,000 CAD depending on experience. You'll also work closely with our scientific product manager to co-design new health report products, which means you'll need genuine curiosity about how biology works. You don't need a science degree — but if you've ever looked at your own lab results and wondered what they actually mean, that's the instinct.

What you’ll own

• Platform quality and consistency — you notice when two services handle errors differently and fix it, not file a ticket
• Thoughtful introduction of new technology — you're skeptical until it earns its place, then you drive adoption through
• Security and compliance balance — you've made design decisions where delivery and security were in tension, and you navigated them with judgment, not just caution
• Production improvements from diagnosis through to resolution — you close the loop
• New health report products developed alongside our scientific PM — from clinical question to shipped feature

What we’re looking for

• Production experience with Ruby on Rails and Elixir/Phoenix — shipped and operated, not just familiar
• Distributed systems in practice: async messaging (RabbitMQ or similar), failure modes, idempotency, dead-letter queues
• Infrastructure ownership: Terraform and AWS at a level where you can drive a change, not just read one
• At least one example of reducing platform entropy — a migration, deprecation, or refactor that made a system class simpler, not just larger
• Experience owning a security or compliance decision end-to-end (HIPAA/PIPEDA context is a plus; the judgment is the requirement)
• Clear, direct communication — you can explain a technical trade-off to a scientific PM without either oversimplifying or retreating into jargon

If you meet most of these but not all, we'd still like to hear from you. We're looking for the right person, not the perfect checklist.

How we work

We use Shape Up: six-week cycles with real autonomy, followed by cooldown periods where you help shape what comes next. You'll have direct access to customer feedback and clinical context. Engineering, product, and science work closely together here — decisions get made in conversations, not committees.

We're a small team. Your voice will carry. So will your follow-through.

Our stack

Ruby on Rails · Elixir/Phoenix · RabbitMQ · PostgreSQL · Terraform · AWS · GitHub

What we offer

• Ownership of platform quality and engineering standards across a production health platform
• A role where your architectural decisions are load-bearing, and you'll know it Vancouver-based, hybrid — we work together in person and value flexibility