Senior Software Engineer (Patient)

PocketHealth Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health benefits

PTO 4 weeks

Wellness days

Mental health coverage

Parental leave top-up

Remote-friendly

Job summary

PocketHealth Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Patient Core team to own backend services powering the patient experience. You’ll design, build, deploy and operate scalable systems used by hospitals and clinics across North America.

The role offers a hybrid work model with two days per week in our Toronto office, a salary range of $140,000–$170,000 CAD annually, and equity in stock options along with a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent/similar.
• 4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer with Backend focus or full stack.
• Experience building scalable integrations and customer-facing apps.
• Understanding of CI/CD and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Own the backend services behind the patient experience and the architecture, design, deployment, and operations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to connect platform with provider applications.
• Write and test code (unit/integration/functional) and review others’ code.
• Partner with PMs and support teams to continuously improve integration features.

Skills

Backend development

Full stack

Microservices

CI/CD

Collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering/Computer Science

Tools

Go

MySQL

TypeScript

Angular

Job description

What if you could personally impact the future of healthcare? As part of the PocketHealth team, you will enable hospitals and clinics across North America — and more importantly, empower over 2 million patients — to discover a better healthcare experience.

PocketHealth is a patient-centric platform that enables hospitals and clinics across North America to share imaging records digitally with patients, instantly and securely. Through our platform, we enable patients to be active and engaged participants in their own care, and take control of their care journey.

In addition to image sharing, which is the heart of the PocketHealth platform, we’ve grown our core functionality to enable sharing between hospitals and physicians, as well as instant image retrieval and automated importing capability.

PocketHealth is a unified image management solution for over 800 hospitals and clinics across North America.

We believe that by placing patients at the center of the record release process, data moves more ethically, easily and securely throughout the care journey, and we’re looking for passionate individuals to help make this vision a reality for millions more patients across North America.

About The Team

As a Senior Software Engineer on our Patient team, you will have the opportunity to apply your backend or fullstack expertise towards building the next generation of our core infrastructure that will enable thousands of hospitals and clinics — and empower millions of patients — to discover a better healthcare experience. You’ll be joining an experienced, friendly and supportive team of Engineers eager to learn, teach and ultimately make a difference.

How You’ll Make An Impact

In this role on the Patient Core team, you'll build and own the backend services behind the patient experience. These are the systems that get patients their medical imaging records and let them share those records with the doctors who need them next. You will own the architecture, design, development, deployment, and operations of the solutions that you develop. Ideal candidates will possess a high degree of user empathy and a focus on the quality and speed of our product.

Patient Core is where the promise of PocketHealth actually lands: a patient gets their scan in minutes instead of driving across the city for a CD. Getting that right at scale — reliably, privately, and fast — is the mandate of this team, and we need your help to bring it to life.

This job posting is for an existing vacancy. The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $170,000 annually, depending on the experience and expertise you bring to the team. Salary is just one part of the story, though; this role is eligible for equity in the form of stock options and includes a comprehensive health and benefits package. We view our compensation as a total investment of your well-being, designed to support you in both your work and your life outside of it.

This is a hybrid position with two days a week in our Toronto office, where we collaborate deeply; the rest is yours to work from wherever you do your best thinking.

How We Build

Every deployment is different. Healthcare providers run similar systems but operate them in ways that diverge in the details and those details are where automations succeed or fail. We build to fit each client’s actual workflows, which means you’ll write purpose-built code, own the edge cases, and ship something that genuinely works rather than something that almost works.

AI is a first-class part of how we work. Claude Code, Codex, and AI-assisted development are standard practice at PocketHealth — they’re what let us move fast, build with precision, and keep quality high across multiple simultaneous deployments. Our engineers have the agency to advocate for the tools they need to ship with quality and pace, and we’re looking for others who bring that same instinct.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborating with cross‑functional teams to understand integration requirements and design solutions that enhances functionality
• Developing and implementing solutions to connect our platform with provider applications
• Writing and testing your own code (unit/integration/functional testing), and peer testing others’
• Working closely with PMs, other devs, Customer Support & Implementation teams to get feedback & continuously improve integration features

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent/similar
• 4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with a Backend focussed or broad Full Stack skill set
• Experience building/maintaining scalable, reliable integrations and building customer‑facing applications
• Understanding of CI/CD
• Experience building and maintaining microservices/experience
• Some experience working with user interfaces that have scaled
• A collaborative mindset, strong communication skills and a proven ability to partner with teams across an organization while maintaining a strong sense of ownership

Technologies We Use

We currently use the following in our tech stack, but experience with each of these specific tools isn’t necessary. We know languages and tools are portable, and familiarity with something similar is ok!

• Go, MySQL, TypeScript, Angular

You can do amazing things at PocketHealth. You can positively impact the healthcare journey for millions of people, while building your career and developing your skills. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. It has been a part of our mission since our founding to empower patients & make healthcare accessible to all, and we know this can only be achieved with a team of diverse perspectives that is representative of the Patient & Provider communities we serve.

People love working here for these reasons and more: working remotely, our competitive salaries and benefits (including stock options for every employee!), four weeks of paid time off, unlimited paid wellness days, extended mental health coverage, and 16 weeks of parental leave top‑up.

We’re proud to foster a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we believe in caring for our employees with the same thoughtfulness we offer our Patients & Providers.

If there are ways we can support you through the recruitment process with an accommodation, please let us know by reaching out to [email protected]. Applications are accepted via posting only.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.