Full Stack Software Developer at TELUS

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 Full Stack Software Developer to join our team. Expertise in cloud-native infrastructure and Ruby is essential, 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 architecture that power our applications.

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

In this role, you will:

Infrastructure Management:

• Handle day-to-day AWS platform operations using modern observability tools, such as DataDog, CloudWatch, etc.
• Design and implement scalable cloud-native architectures
• Architect, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• 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
  
  
  

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
  
  
  

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
• 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)
• Ruby on Rails Expertise and familiarity with Java, Javascript, Python
• 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