Principal Developer

Your daily life

During the day, you will be led to:

• Understand the technological challenges that your line of business faces and develop effective solutions;
• Create clear roadmaps for codebase evolution and maintenance of your line of business, ensuring smooth alignment and transitions between versions and facilitating shared services among products;
• Collaborate with peer principal developers from other business lines to establish a unified enterprise architecture vision and strategy. Make critical architecture decisions and establish common ground;
• Lead the development and implementation of architecture and development best practices alongside your peers. Ensure sustainability and longevity;
• Take charge of solution architecture and technology choices within your business line, paving the way for innovative ideas and solutions from developers while aligning with the enterprise architecture strategy;
• Tackle complex problems, optimize application and infrastructure performance, and provide guidance for architectural choices;
• Collaborate with peers from various specialties, such as QA, SRE, platform services, security, to ensure comprehensive alignment in software delivery;
• Mentor Staff Developers and Tech/Team leads, offering guidance and support;
• Act as the technical representative in key projects involving partners and clients;
• Champion application security within your business line;
• Represent your organization in various communities of practice and collaborate with other technical leaders to ensure effective knowledge sharing;
• Promote innovation within your business line and the organization by adopting new technologies and exploring proofs of concept;
• Continuously monitor and stay updated on technological advancements.

Are you an experienced and motivated developer, known for your great attitude, work ethic and both your hard and soft skills? Are you recognized for your ability to lead technical architecture discussions and decision-making? Are you motivated by the unique opportunity to serve a greater purpose in the Healthcare industry through innovative solutions enabled by people, data, and technology? The sky is the limit! If you have:

• 12+ years of experience in software development;
• Experience architecting and developing large scale systems with many different data sources and business logic layers;
• Excellent programming skills in one or more languages, including Typescript, Ruby, .NET, JavaScript, Python, PHP or Go;
• A good understanding of modern application development frameworks and libraries, such as NodeJs/NestJS, Ruby on Rails, Angular, React, GraphQL;
• Strong knowledge of security best practices in application development;
• The ability to work and model with relational and document databases (SQL, NoSQL);
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with a natural curiosity and attention to detail;
• Solid understanding of mobile and web application development frameworks;
• In-depth knowledge of Docker, containers, Kubernetes, event-driven, domain-driven and micro services architectures;
• A strong emotional IQ, empathy, and an inclusive leadership style;
• An invested approach to developing the skills and abilities of your teammates and a demonstrated interest in sharing your knowledge and experience;
• Strong communication skills, both verbally and written;
• A natural ease in explaining complex technical concepts to designers, other engineers, and stakeholders;
• A good understanding of authentication and authorization;
• Knowledge of HL7 and FHIR (an asset);
• Experience in third-party data integration (an asset);
• Since you will be regularly interacting with English-speaking colleagues located outside of Québec, proficiency in both English and French (spoken, written, and read) is preferable.

Petal’s position on remote working

In our opinion, a company cannot claim to be modern, innovative and have the well-being of their team at heart, without attempting to integrate remote working to the level that their business model allows them to. Petal employees continue to benefit from the option of teleworking up to the maximum flexibility permitted by the nature of the position and the smooth running of operations.

Our benefits

• A signing bonus of $1,000 for your remote work set-up;
• Compensation that recognizes your contribution;
• 4 to 6 weeks of paid vacation per year;
• 5 paid personal days per year ;
• A group RRSP / DPSP plan with employer contribution;
• A complete group insurance plan, from day 1;
• An annual wellness allowance;
• Access to the Lumino Health™ telehealth application;
• Flexible work hours and more.