Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

ABOUT MAPLE

Founded in 2015, Maple is a fast-growing health tech company with a vision to power the future of healthcare by building a connected and superior experience for patients, doctors, and other types of health providers.

With a growing network of 1,600+ healthcare providers and more than 3 million Canadians with access to our services, Maple is one of Canada's fastest-growing virtual care companies.

We're also the team behind the Virtual Emergency Department at Michael Garron Hospital in Toronto, and the Trillium Health COVID screening program in Ontario's Peel region.

We've partnered with the province of Nova Scotia to support VirtualCareNS, which provides primary care to individuals in under-served regions.

We also have a partnership under Maple Maskawâhtik with the Saa Dene group to connect culturally appropriate healthcare practitioners to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples.

We have established an entrepreneurial culture centered around our mission to "build a connected healthcare experience." We attribute our success to our employees, who have helped us achieve numerous noteworthy awards including : Globe and Mail's #6 Top Growing Companies in Canada in 2021, #2 in Deloitte Canada's Technology Fast 50 2021, LinkedIn's Top 10 Startups in Canada 2020, and Bay Street Bull's The Power 50 : Canada's Most Impactful Companies 2021.

THE POSITION

We're growing our engineering team in order to scale multiple business lines and enhance access to healthcare for Canadians.

We're looking for passionate developers who want to make an impact and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with an open culture and flat hierarchy.

At Maple, Senior Back End Developers champion the principles of DevOps and the values of an open source community automation and a self-serve developer experience are key to our platform's success.

We have comprehensive test suites using PHPUnit, Cypress, and k6 load testing, along with branch-level API previews orchestrated through Ansible and Terraform.

Our bi-directional OpenAPIs are built with a Documentation-as-Code philosophy to support fast, efficient, and elegant development of features on top of a stable platform.

Our goal is to build and scale real-time interactions between patients and doctors.

We'll support and challenge you as you develop your technical and leadership skills in a scaling environment. You're someone who enjoys thinking creatively, solving challenges, and coming up with fresh ideas to design the world's leading virtual healthcare platform.

YOU WILL :

• Ship APIs, integrations, and data models to support the Maple web, mobile, and partner experience. Some past features include building out algorithms to calculate dynamic wait times across all of our consults and implementing payment services like Apple and Google Pay on our web and mobile platforms.
• Collaborate on system-level decisions through weekly architecture meetings.
• Help organize and manage weekly sprints.
• Write maintainable, scalable, testable code across our codebases.
• Preserve code quality through frequent participation of code reviews and feature demos.
• Grow as a developer through peer mentorship and weekly career-focused 1 : 1s with your manager.
• Provide ongoing mentorship to fellow developers, supporting knowledge sharing and capability development across the team.
• Collaborate with designers, product owners, and non-technical teammates (e.g. operations, business development) to deliver impactful user-facing products.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

• At least five years of experience developing in Object Oriented PHP.
• Strong understanding of backend best practices, OOP techniques and proven ways to solve complex asynchronous problems.
• Understanding of basic mentorship and / or coaching techniques to support other developers on best practices, functional programming techniques, and solving complex asynchronous problems.
• Production level experience with : Laravel or similar MVC frameworkMySQL or other relational databasePHPUnit or other PHP testing frameworkAPI design using REST or GraphQL

CULTURE AND ORGANIZATIONAL FIT

The Maple team is :

• Passionate : We believe deeply in our company's purpose and what we're trying to accomplish as a team. We want all colleagues to feel passionate about improving access to high-quality healthcare through the power of technology, and to make a positive impact with the work we do, where we work, and in the community.
• Supportive : We're a diverse community that recognizes and embraces the individual differences of our people. We have fun coming to work and bringing the best out of each other.

We value and encourage different and diverse perspectives from all parts of the organization.

• United : We leave our egos at the door and act with humility. We work collaboratively to overcome obstacles that arise, and we're united in our purpose and bringing our ambitious goals to life.
• Creative : We challenge the status quo of what we think is possible with how we approach our work and projects, celebrating bold thinking.

We're focused on our priorities yet remain agile in how we deliver on our goals.

WORKING AT MAPLE

We want you to love working at Maple. We want you to feel challenged and supported, cared for, and driven. Just as we're driven to grow, to improve, to iterate our products and services, we want you to take the same mindset as you work towards achieving your personal best.

We can all learn, we can all develop, and we can all power the future of healthcare. But we can only do it together. At Maple, we are a team first and foremost.

Your success is our success.

In order to support your health and well-being, we offer a comprehensive set of benefits and perks, including :

Health and dental benefits, insurance : Through our Group Benefits, you'll get access to dental benefits, extended healthcare benefits for drugs, vision, paramedical coverage (e.

g. massage therapists, dieticians, mental health professionals), counseling, health service navigation, life insurance, critical illness and disability insurance, and more.

Dedicated Health Spending Account ("HSA") : An additional budget available for you to spend on health-related expenses (e.

g. eyeglasses, therapy).

• Dedicated Wellness Budget : Spend your budget on activities that support your physical and mental wellness.
• Maple Coverage : You'll get unlimited access to Maple for primary care, and a package of therapy consultations.
• Paid Health Days : In addition to paid vacation, you'll receive 10 Paid Health Days for you to use when you're suddenly feeling sick and unable to work, whether it's a physical or mental health condition, to attend healthcare appointments and procedures, or if you need to support a loved one with their healthcare needs.
• Pregnancy and Parental Leave : We support parents who are welcoming a child into their life in a variety of ways, including a Supplemental Unemployment Benefit based on eligibility.
• Professional Development Budget : We encourage all team members to seek opportunities for growth and learning to support professional development.

That's why your Branch Out Budget ("BOB") is designed to reimburse you for expenses related to any meaningful professional development opportunities.

OTHER

Job type : Full-time

Hiring manager : SVP, Engineering

Location : Fully remote within Canada

Start date : November 2023

Please note that any offer of employment may be subject to verification of employment and education background checks, including a criminal record check.