Job Description

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 systems. In this role, your impact extends substantially beyond your individual output-you 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 team's 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 You'll 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 team's 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 languages. In addition to the following frameworks and supporting technologies: React, Node.js/Express, 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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Salary Range: $95,000-$143,000
Performance Bonus or Sales Incentive Plan: 15%
Actual total compensation will be determined based on factors such as knowledge, skills, performance and experience. In addition, TELUS offers rewarding benefits such as:

• Comprehensive total rewards package highlighting competitive salary and bonus structures, minimum 3 weeks of vacation, and flexible benefits plan to meet the needs of you and your family
• Flexibility to work in-office, virtually or a combination of both, based on the role's requirements
• Generous company matched pension and share purchase programs
• Opportunity to give back to communities in which we work, live and serve
• Career growth and learning & development opportunities to develop your skills
• And much more ...

A bit about us
We're a people-focused, customer-first, purpose-driven team who works together every day to innovate and do good. We improve lives through our technology solutions and foster a culture of innovation that empowers team members to solve complex problems and create remarkable human outcomes in a digital world.
You'll find our engaging, high-performance culture personally fulfilling, professionally challenging, and financially rewarding. We're committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability. Your unique contributions and talents will be valued and respected here. When you join our team, you're helping us make the future friendly.
Note for Quebec candidates: if knowledge of English is required for this position, it is because the team member will be asked, on a regular basis, to interact in English with external or internal parties or to use English applications or software as part of their tasks.
Technology Solutions
We're into seeing where technology can take us, so if you have ever imagined what the future of supply chain management, cybersecurity, the cloud and Internet of Things will look like, we want you to be part of the team that makes it happen.
We are honoured to be recognized
5G
TELUS's fastest network. 5G enables a superior experience with fast downloads and richer multimedia applications
6
Innovation centres across Canada that bring our team members together with customers, partners, start ups, universities, hospitals and fellow colleagues to tackle some of the biggest technological hurdles Canada will face in the near future.
1
Million active users logging into My TELUS per month (consumer mobility).
Accessibility
TELUS is proud to foster an inclusive culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to fair employment practices and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.
We offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities, as required, during the recruitment process.

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