Description
Join our team and what we'll accomplish together
At TELUS, we are transforming health care with innovative solutions that empower people to live healthier lives and our TELUS Health team is on a mission to improve access to primary care, mental health, chronic disease management and aging-in-place solutions.
TELUS Health is empowering every person to live their healthiest life. Guided by our vision, we are leveraging the power of our leading edge technology and focusing on the uniqueness of each individual to create the future of health. Simply put, our team members are united by their commitment to continuously innovate to make healthcare more accessible and deliver improved health experiences for everyone.
You will have a direct impact on the Home Health Monitoring (HHM) product, which enables patients with severe chronic diseases or conditions to monitor health factors from the comfort of their homes and share this information electronically with health professionals.
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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