Senior Software Developer TELUS Consumer Health

Description

About TELUS Consumer Health

At TELUS we are transforming health care with innovative solutions that empower people to live healthier lives. Our TELUS Consumer Health team is on a mission to improve access to primary care mental health chronic disease management and aging-in-place solutions. As a Senior Software Developer you will be crucial in defining the technical direction and ensuring the successful delivery of solutions that make healthcare more accessible for everyone.

About the Role

TELUS Consumer Health is seeking an accomplished and highly influential Senior Software Developer to elevate the quality scalability and delivery cadence of our software this role your impact extends substantially beyond your individual outputyou will act as a technical leader domain expert or potential Tech Lead driving the technical vision and execution for complex cross-functional initiatives.

You will be responsible for tackling the teams most challenging technical problems designing coherent multi-component solutions and mentoring engineers to adopt new best practices. This is a role for a developer ready to drive significant longer-term technical improvements across quarters.

What Youll Do in this Role (Responsibilities)

Technical Leadership & Vision

• Define Technical Roadmap: Set the technical vision architect/design solutions and gain support for them defining the technical roadmap for complex projects and providing leadership for the team executing on them
• Complex Problem Solving: Use your deep domain expertise to write high-quality code and solve the teams most ambiguous and challenging technical problems across multiple technologies and products
• Architecture & Design: Successfully lead the design and implementation of complex defect-free software solutions with multiple components interacting across API or system boundaries
• Review & Feedback: Provide quality feedback on designs written by other team members asking insightful questions that solidify choices and surface erroneous assumptions
• Delivery Mastery: Capably roll out a component or major feature (and confidently deprecate existing systems) reliably with a strong understanding and plan regarding potential failure domains
• 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

Strategic Impact & Process Improvement

• Drive Efficiency: Challenge the team to improve efficiency and effectiveness by getting buy-in for tackling technical debt automating manual tasks and adopting new and emerging best practices/tooling
• Cross-Team Coordination: Competently work across teams leading complex collaboration and coordination efforts and acting as a trusted person for urgent cross-system issues
• Long-Term Initiatives: Drive and lead longer-term technical improvements or initiatives across quarters balancing current and future technical needs to create robust solutions
• Discovery & Experimentation: Lead technical discovery or experiments on new providers and software to help the team make informed best-fit decisions
• Estimation & Scoping: Develop very accurate estimating skills and ensure tasks/new functionalities are thoroughly understood and consistent with business and product partner needs

Collaboration & Mentorship

• Stakeholder Alignment: Make informed decisions by consulting the right stakeholders balancing technical details with the big picture and securing buy-in for large pieces of work
• Conflict Resolution: Effectively use communication skills to fix disagreements and make decisions asking questions that dig into underlying context and de-escalating technical arguments
• Mentorship & Development: Seek opportunities to mentor and develop Level 1-3 team members sharing knowledge and contributing to the community of practice
• Team Empowerment: Leverage the strengths and skills of team members helping to identify talent gaps and contributing to a supportive inclusive and authentic team environment
• Metrics & Success: Design appropriate priorities success metrics and a clear path to satisfying them for team projects

Qualifications

What You Bring (Skills & Experience)

• Demonstrated Seniority: Proven ability to drive the design and implementation of complex software solutions having successfully delivered multiple capabilities in different technologies to production
• Architectural Fluency: A proven ability to create coherent defect-free designs involving multiple interacting components/systems
• Technical Breadth & Depth: Demonstrated breadth and depth across most technical skills with experience across multiple programming languages and modern cloud/backend technologies (e.g. AWS/GCP Microservices Kubernetes)
• Debugging Mastery: Ability to quickly and effectively debug complex cross-module issues with deep knowledge of underlying libraries platforms and systems
• Strategic Mindset: Proven ability to challenge the status quo on functionality and process consistently seeking technical advancements and considering their application within TELUS
• Impact Awareness: Strong understanding of the implications of technical decisions adjusting approach based on impact and risk

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