Senior Full Stack Developer

Senior Full Stack Developer

Why STARS

At STARS we come to work every day with a purposeto save lives. Whether you work in the aircraft or at one of our six bases everyone at STARS plays a vital role in helping to provide critical care anywhere. Since flying our first mission in 1985 we have never lost sight of what is most important our VIPS or Very Important Patients. Each year we fly over 3000 missions providing world-class critical medical care whenever and wherever we are needed and every team member contributes to helping that VIP. We are a lifeline to the community when time and clinical expertise can make all the difference.

We are currently looking for a Senior Full Stack Developer on the software development team in a hybrid capacity at any one of our 6 baseslocated in Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

While you may not be flying the helicopter or providing patient care as a member of STARS IT team you will play an important role in STARS life-saving mission. Be part of something bigger. Be part of our team.

Position Summary:

STARS is seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer (hybrid) to join our Software Development this role youll help design build and optimize mission-critical applications and integrations that power our dispatch clinical and operational systems. Youll work across the full stack from backend APIs and implementations to modern front-end interfaces contributing to systems that directly support patient care and operational excellence.

The ideal candidate brings a passion for modern web technologies experience with cloud-native architectures and the ability to work collaboratively with and across teams in support of STARSs mission of delivering critical care anywhere.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design develop deliver and maintain full-stack applications supporting mission-critical workflows across backend frontend and integration layers using modern frameworks and services. (e.g. ). Experience with PWA/SWA
• Contribute to technical design decisions and architecture following best practices for performance maintainability and security.
• Contribute to best practices in code reviews testing CI/CD observability and appropriate documentation to ensure performance reliability and maintainability of applications.
• Primarily works on the development team and with Product Data IT Operations and in service to other key stakeholders on requirements deliverables and ensure reliable releases.
• Promote engineering excellence through personal leadership learning and knowledge sharing identifying opportunities to optimize systems and developer workflows and fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• 6 years of professional full-stack development experience with a strong portfolio of delivered production applications.
• Proven track record building and deploying production-grade systems in cloud environments (AWS Azure or GCP).
• Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript with experience in backend frameworks (e.g. Fastify) Core.
• Experience with reactive frontend frameworks such as React or Angular and strong fundamentals of CSS responsive frontend design and CSS accelerators (e.g. Tailwind)
• Experience with databases (PostgreSQL SQL Server) and ORMs.
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful and event-driven APIs (e.g. Pub/Sub Kafka or RabbitMQ).
• Familiarity with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Understanding and intelligent use of software testing practices.
• Experience with Git-based workflows agile methodologies and scrum practice and tools.

Ideal Skills and Experience:

• Experience with Static Web Applications (architecture and deployment)
• Experience with architecture for Progressive Web Applications (including offline operation data syncing and online enhancement)

What we offer:

At STARS every day we come to work with a purpose to save lives. Maybe thats your purpose too.

We provide a strong total reward offering inclusive of a salary tailored to your education and experience comprehensive organization-paid health and dental benefits free parking and more. But the real reward is joining a legacy a legacy of lives saved of hope in the fact of the unimaginable and of pride in making a difference.

When you join STARS you become part of a community that knows were stronger together. It takes a team to deliver the highest standards of care and we need you to help us be our best.

Elevate your career. Be part of something bigger. Be part of STARS.

How to Apply/ Deadline to apply:

If you are the person we are looking for and would like to make a difference with your career please make sure to apply by closing date: November 17 2025

Want to learn more

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