Back-End Software Developer (Montreal QC)

Introduction

Join Montrium as a Software Developer, Backend and help build the backend services behind our Connect platform for life sciences customers. You will design and deliver secure, scalable features using Azure services, APIs, and data-driven backend patterns. Your work will help life sciences teams manage critical regulated processes with confidence, traceability, and efficiency.

Company Overview

Founded in 2005, Montrium is a cloud-based solutions provider serving the life sciences industry. We combine software, cloud, quality, and GxP regulatory expertise to help organizations manage regulated processes with greater efficiency, compliance, and traceability.

Montrium’s Connect platform supports life sciences organizations by helping them manage regulated content and processes across the research and development lifecycle. Today, thousands of users across more than 35 countries use Connect to support compliant, traceable, and effective operations.

Our team brings together experienced professionals in life sciences, regulatory compliance, quality assurance, system design, cloud operations, and software development. Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, Montrium has built a reputation for excellence, practical innovation, and a strong commitment to quality.

Our Commitment to Employees and Customers

Montrium is committed to building trust and making a difference for employees, customers, and communities. We foster a collaborative environment where team members communicate openly, take ownership of their work, and contribute to meaningful outcomes.

We value autonomy, respect, continuous growth, and equal opportunity. We encourage people to share perspectives, exchange ideas respectfully, and grow their careers in ways that support both personal development and customer impact.

Most importantly, your work will help connect people, processes, and technology in ways that support regulated life sciences research and contribute to better outcomes for patients.

Job Description

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, the Software Developer , Backend designs, builds, and improves the backend services, APIs, integrations, and data-driven capabilities that support Montrium’s Connect platform. The role balances the reliability of established customer-facing capabilities with the evolution of modern backend services and cloud-native engineering practices.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys building production-ready software, improving established systems, and working on backend services that support regulated content, workflow automation, data integrity, integrations, and platform reliability in customer environments.

As a member of the Development team, you will contribute to the following areas:

Develop and evolve backend product capabilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, background jobs, and integration components that support regulated life sciences workflows.


• Build solutions using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, RESTful APIs, background processing, messaging patterns, and cloud-native design principles.


• Translate product requirements and technical designs into maintainable, observable, and testable application code.


• Contribute to API design, service boundaries, data models, and integration patterns that balance product value, performance, security, and maintainability.


• Use Azure services across compute, storage, messaging, identity, monitoring, and data to deliver secure, scalable, and observable product features.


• Improve existing backend services through better reliability, security, performance, scalability, observability, and maintainability.


• Diagnose and resolve issues involving APIs, identity, permissions, data access, background processing, integrations, and cloud platform behavior.


• Support release preparation, deployment readiness, environment validation, and controlled promotion of backend components across environments.


• Document key design decisions, integration points, operational behaviours, and troubleshooting guidance that support repeatable delivery and team knowledge sharing.

This role is ideal for a developer who enjoys improving established systems and contributing to modern cloud engineering patterns in a regulated product environment.

Contribute to a collaborative engineering culture

• Collaborate with developers, architects, product owners, quality assurance, DevOps, and support teams to deliver reliable product capabilities.


• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, troubleshooting, and improvements to engineering practices.


• Use modern productivity and AI-assisted development tools, including GitHub Enterprise Copilot and Microsoft 365 AI capabilities, to improve coding, documentation, collaboration, and engineering efficiency while applying sound professional judgment.


• Communicate technical risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and delivery progress clearly.


• Share knowledge, support team learning, and work with autonomy, accountability, curiosity, and respect for sustainable delivery practices.

You will join a collaborative engineering team that values practical design, shared ownership, and sustainable delivery. If you enjoy improving established systems, learning new technologies, and making thoughtful engineering decisions, this role may be a strong fit.

Required Qualifications

• Three or more years of professional backend or cloud application development experience.


• Strong experience with C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, RESTful APIs, object-oriented design, and practical software design patterns.


• Practical knowledge of Microsoft Azure services and cloud-native development patterns, including application hosting, storage, messaging, identity, monitoring, and secrets management.


• Ability to apply secure development practices, including input validation, least privilege, secrets management, secure API design, and protection of sensitive data.


• Familiarity with distributed systems, asynchronous processing, event-driven design, microservices concepts, and integration patterns.


• Experience with relational or NoSQL data stores, data modelling, query design, data access patterns, and performance-aware backend development.


• Working knowledge of Git, pull requests, code review, CI/CD practices, unit testing, automated functional testing, and controlled software delivery.


• Ability to diagnose backend issues involving APIs, authentication, authorization, data access, background processing, integrations, and cloud services.


• College diploma, university degree, or equivalent practical experience in software development, computer science, software engineering, information technology, or a related field.

You will have opportunities to deepen your Azure expertise, contribute to architectural discussions, and grow into broader technical ownership as the platform evolves.

Additional Qualifications

• Experience with Azure services such as Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Azure Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure App Configuration, Application Insights, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, or similar services.


• Experience with infrastructure-as-code, managed identities, API gateways, or automated deployment patterns.


• Interest in or exposure to AI-enabled product features, document intelligence, automation, or other emerging cloud services.


• Familiarity with TypeScript, React, Redux, or other front-end technologies that support collaboration across full-stack teams.


• Experience in a SaaS, pharmaceutical, life sciences, regulated, or GxP product environment.


• Microsoft Azure or developer certification, or willingness to pursue one.

How You Work

• Strong interpersonal and time-management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders.


• Comfortable working through ambiguity and balancing technical detail with product, quality, and customer needs.


• Curious, practical, and proactive when learning new technologies or investigating complex issues.


• Quality-minded, with attention to maintainability, reliability, and long-term product value.


• Comfortable working in a smaller-company environment where team members are adaptable, take ownership beyond narrowly defined responsibilities, and help shape practical ways of working.


• Written and spoken fluency in English and French is essential (other languages are an asset) .

Benefits

• Competitive compensation recognizes the experience and impact you bring to the team.


• Career development support through growth opportunities, coaching, ongoing learning, and an annual training stipend.


• A smaller-company environment where your work is visible, your perspective matters, and your contributions can directly influence how the product and engineering practices evolve.


• A hybrid work environment that supports flexibility, collaboration, and work-life balance, with regular weekly presence at our office in the Old Port of Montreal.


• Temporary work-from-abroad flexibility for up to six weeks per year, subject to role expectations, collaboration needs, and the ability to perform your duties effectively.


• Healthcare benefits to support your well-being and peace of mind.


• Paid time off starting at three weeks per year, with additional flexibility available over time at your manager’s discretion based on performance, contribution, and business needs.

Next Steps

At Montrium, different perspectives and experiences help us build technology that supports meaningful work in life sciences. If you want your backend engineering work to contribute to that mission, we invite you to apply.