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Senior Backend Engineer, NimbleRx

  • Toronto, ON
  • Hybrid
  • Posted Oct 7, 2026
  • 1 position

$195,000–$228,000 / year

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Employment type
Full-time
Experience level
Senior · 5+ years
Posting language
English
Working hours
40 hours per week
Work authorization
Visa sponsorship mentioned

Job summary

You will architect and build scalable backend platforms, APIs, and services while taking ownership of features from design to implementation. Additionally, you will mentor junior engineers and interns while promoting high-quality development practices across the team.

Job details

About the role As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will have a hand in architecting the technology and customer experience that are pivotal to multiple web products for patients, pharmacies, and other customers of NimbleRx (www.nimblerx.com). You will join a team of world-class, highly motivated software engineers who build for performance, reliability, and scalability. You will work closely with other developers, as well as with groups such as Product Management and Design, to understand feature requirements and functional and technical use cases. With your colleagues, you will work to deliver high-quality code on time. Our engineering culture: We operate with shared trust and no egos. We enjoy being “in this together” and collaborating on the challenges of a rapidly scaling business. We daily live out our company values of empathy, simplicity, autonomy, leadership, ownership, burning curiosity, bias for action, and mentorship. We operate with context, not control, in a highly collaborative environment. *Current Canadian work authorization is strongly preferred. Visa sponsorship may be considered on an exceptional basis for highly qualified candidates who possess specialized skills critical to this role. What you'll do Build a scalable platform, API, and services that people love to use. Take ownership of backend features, from design to implementation to release. Mentor junior engineers and interns. Promote best practices and high-quality development techniques. Tackle tough design and technical problems. Enhance our systems’ usability and performance, ensuring a consistent user experience. Qualifications 5+ years of experience with backend APIs, services, and platform development Rich development experience with Java, Spring, and SQL Experience developing scalable, customer-facing, web-based applications Excellent communication skills Nice to have: experience with React, Terraform/Terragrunt, or AWS About you: You are mission-driven and want to write code that makes a difference. You take pride in your work and deliver high-quality code on time. You are an innovator with good ideas, strong problem-solving abilities, and a results-oriented attitude. You value and take responsibility for the quality of your features; you test your own code and review your teammates’ code. You have good judgment about project priorities. You deliver high-value features with simple and fast solutions. You own complex projects end-to-end with minimal guidance. You take a leadership or driver role in the engineering process throughout planning, design, delivery, and maintenance.

What you’ll do

You will architect and build scalable backend platforms, APIs, and services while taking ownership of features from design to implementation. Additionally, you will mentor junior engineers and interns while promoting high-quality development practices across the team.

Requirements

Candidates must have at least 5 years of experience in backend API and platform development with proficiency in Java, Spring, and SQL. Experience in building scalable, customer-facing web applications is required, along with strong communication and problem-solving skills.

Listed skills

  • SQL · Preferred
  • Mentorship · Preferred
  • React · Preferred
  • Amazon Web Services · Preferred
  • Java · Preferred
  • Terraform · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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  • Java
  • Spring
  • SQL
  • API Development
  • Platform Development
  • Scalable Systems
  • Web-based Applications
  • Mentorship
  • System Design
  • Performance Optimization
  • React
  • Terraform
  • Terragrunt
  • AWS
  • Software Architecture
  • Technical Leadership
  • Empathy
  • Platform Design And Development
  • Curiosity
  • Planning
  • Self-Motivation
  • Application Programming Interface (API)
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Customer Service
  • Communication
  • Process Engineering
  • Leadership
  • Scalability
  • Problem Solving
  • Spring Framework
  • Product Management
  • Software Engineering
  • SQL (Programming Language)
  • Usability
  • User Experience (UX)
  • Web Applications
  • React.js (Javascript Library)

Job areas

  • Technology
  • Software
  • Engineering
  • Healthcare
  • Back End Engineer
  • Back End Developer / Engineer
  • Web and Multimedia Developers
  • Web Developers

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