Senior Software Developer – Home Health Monitoring (L4 Software Development)

Calgary, Ottawa, Vancouver
November 26, 2025
Full Time

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Job Description

Your role:

We are seeking a skilled and motivated Core Ruby Backend Developer to join our team. Expertise in Ruby is essential, and familiarity with Java is a plus, as well as working knowledge of modern DevOps/SRE tools and practices. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust, scalable backend systems within our complex, multi-language architecture that power our applications.

 

TELUS Health is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build solutions to enhance availability, performance, and stability of services as well as automating away repetitive work.

What you’ll do in this role:

Core Development:

  • Build and maintain backend systems using Ruby (Ruby on Rails) and Java, with focus on performance and scalability
  • Implement secure data solutions across MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB databases
  • Ensure system integrity through proper authentication mechanisms

 

Infrastructure Management:

  • Handle day-to-day AWS platform operations using modern observability tools, such as DataDog, CloudWatch, etc.
  • Manage production incidents by responding to alerts, troubleshooting system issues, leading root cause analyses, and ensuring follow-through on post-incident reviews.
  • Implement disaster recovery and capacity planning with Infrastructure as Code

 

Quality and Documentation:

  • Maintain code quality through comprehensive testing and peer reviews
  • Document technical specifications for future maintenance
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (frontend, design, product) for solution delivery

 

Technical Prerequisites:

  • Experience with AWS (preferred) or Google Cloud Platform
  • Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for containerization

 

Qualifications

 

What you bring:

 

  • Degree in Engineering/Computer Science with 5+ years of backend development experience
  • Ruby on Rails Expertise and familiarity with Java, Javascript, Python
  • AWS (preferred) or Google Cloud Platform experience
  • Expert-level distributed systems architecture and monitoring
  • Docker, Kubernetes for container orchestration
  • Jenkins or Github Actions for continuous integration
  • Database optimization (eg MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
  • RESTful APIs integration expertise
  • Microservices architecture implementation
  • Application clustering and load balancing
  • Security best practices for cloud infrastructure
  • Configuration management at scale
  • System telemetry for distributed architectures
  • Experience in high-throughput web applications
  • Proven problem-solving across solution stack
  • On-call rotation availability
  • Experience in distributed team environments

Nice to Have:

 

  • Have experience in or be willing to learn data pipeline design in Apache Spark/AWS Glue, Apache Kafka/AWS kinesis

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Salary Range:  $95,000-$143,000
Performance Bonus or Sales Incentive Plan:  15%

Actual total compensation will be determined based on factors such as knowledge, skills, performance and experience. In addition, TELUS offers rewarding benefits such as:

  • Comprehensive total rewards package highlighting competitive salary and bonus structures, minimum 3 weeks of vacation, and flexible benefits plan to meet the needs of you and your family
  • Flexibility to work in-office, virtually or a combination of both, based on the role’s requirements
  • Generous company matched pension and share purchase programs
  • Opportunity to give back to communities in which we work, live and serve
  • Career growth and learning & development opportunities to develop your skills
  • And much more …

A bit about us

We’re a people-focused, customer-first, purpose-driven team who works together every day to innovate and do good. We improve lives through our technology solutions and foster a culture of innovation that empowers team members to solve complex problems and create remarkable human outcomes in a digital world.

You’ll find our engaging, high-performance culture personally fulfilling, professionally challenging, and financially rewarding. We’re committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability. Your unique contributions and talents will be valued and respected here. When you join our team, you’re helping us make the future friendly.

Note for Quebec candidates: if knowledge of English is required for this position, it is because the team member will be asked, on a regular basis, to interact in English with external or internal parties or to use English applications or software as part of their tasks.

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