Staff Software Engineer - Me

About TELUS Consumer Health

At TELUS we are at the forefront of transforming healthcare through innovative technology. Our Consumer Health team is on a mission to empower individuals to live healthier lives driven by the goal to become the leading provider of integrated digital health solutions in Canada.

We are currently undergoing a fundamental transformation shifting our focus from sustainability toward aggressive growth. Our diverse portfolio includes virtual primary care (TELUS Health MyCare) remote patient monitoring (Home Health Monitoring) senior care solutions (TELUS Health Medical Alert) and even pet health (TELUS Health MyPet).

We are looking for leaders who are passionate about building scalable resilient systems that have a tangible positive impact on peoples lives and who are excited to solve these large-scale technical challenges. As a Staff Software Developer you will be a central technical authority and a key driver of multi-year technology strategy ensuring our engineering excellence scales to meet the companys highest-level product and business objectives.

TELUS Consumer Health is seeking an exceptional strategically focused Staff Software Developer to drive technical design and engineering excellence across multiple teams and domains. Operating at a company-wide level you will be known as a technical authority in your area responsible for tackling the most ambiguous strategic and challenging technical problems facing the business.

This role requires a unique combination of deep technical expertise the ability to build and evangelize large-scale abstractions and strong strategic communication skills to align technical direction with business leadership. Strategic Technical Leadership & Architecture

Set Technical Direction: Define and drive architectural decisions and systems design that affect multiple teams playing a key role in developing the multi-year technology strategy for complete and critical areas of the business
Complex Problem Solver: Co-lead multiple complex initiatives with significant contributions in direction setting high-level design and development from initial initiative planning through roll-out
Cross-Domain Oversight: Have day-to-day responsibility working across a set of teams problem spaces and systems coordinating large and complex projects including those with outside partners
Possess the capability and proven experience of contributing to any software at TELUS working on a variety of teams with complex codebases
Lead efforts to dig into complex product and user data producing insights that inform technical and product decisions not previously seen by others

Productivity Multiplier: Design and build tools and abstractions that multiply the output of development teams around you driving techniques for improving engineering productivity
Drive improvements that benefit multiple teams across technical domains covering areas like quality performance observability stability and scalability
Design Consulting: Proactively develop expertise to consult on software and experiment designs providing valuable feedback that saves weeks of work or turns key projects into successes
Architectural Advocacy: Push back on over-engineered solutions and conversely advocate for improving under-implemented solutions ensuring optimal implementation styles and patterns are used
Vision: Stay up-to-date with the landscape of technologies and techniques and evaluate their impacts on the organization its products and services
Technology Stack: At TELUS Consumer health there are a variety of technologies in play. A Polyglot language environment with: TypeScript/Javascript Java Ruby are some of the predominant programming addition to the following frameworks and supporting technologies: React Springboot Rails Kafka GraphQL running in AWS Kubernetes Docker with databases like: PostgreSQL MySQL Redis

Clearly communicate on a variety of issues related to your discipline articulating how your technical thoughts relate to the companys objectives
Support and contribute to performance feedback input on individual growth opportunities and actively mentor and develop engineers through onboarding and training programs

Strategic Delivery: Proven success in leading the design and implementation of large-scope (e.g. department-wide or significant business impact) and complex software solutions
Technical Authority: Expertise in a core technology or technical concept with a known skillset at and above the VP level leading to senior leadership requesting your input on challenging tasks
Agile Leadership: Extensive experience facilitating Agile methodologies and Scrum frameworks ensuring alignment between technical execution and business priority
A track record of process documentation refinement and improvement not for the sake of it but to instill inspire and foster a culture of continuous improvement wherever you are
Expertise with many languages frameworks and a wide variety of development approaches patterns and implementation styles
Accountability: Demonstrated responsibility and accountability for team success and project outcomes
Experience: 10 years of software development experience. With a focus on building and scaling systems in a major cloud environment (AWS is a plus). Domain experience in healthcare health-tech or working with highly sensitive data (PHI PII). LI-Remote #LI-HYBRID