Senior Developer - Scheduling at AlayaCare

About AlayaCare:  

At AlayaCare, we’re revolutionizing the way that home healthcare is delivered. Our leading cloud-based software allows our customers around the world to manage their employees, scheduling, billing, and enable better delivery of care. We're a fast-growing SaaS company with a team of 550+ team members across Canada, US, Australia, and Brazil. We aim to be the world leader in home healthcare software solutions as we empower providers to deliver better health outcomes to their patients and clients. We pride ourselves on our open and transparent culture, our bias for action, and being committed to a workplace where we can be ourselves.     

About the Role:  

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, Senior Developers are one of the senior technologists on a product delivery team. They are responsible for making well informed decisions to contribute to the technical direction of the projects their team works on, with a focus on delivering functionality and a strong bias towards action and quality.

Senior Developers will play a key role in scoping their team’s technical work, using their knowledge to ensure it’s properly sequenced, designed, and implemented. Their critical thinking and solution-oriented approach will be applied continually to contribute to the success of the team. Senior Developers use their experience and perspective to build security and performance into all they do, with an emphasis on continuous delivery and monitoring. 

About the Project:

Our mission is to help home healthcare agencies schedule and process client visits in the most efficient way possible. We make it easier to find the best employee for every client by considering the employee’s expertise and matching it with the client’s needs. We solve unique challenges around optimizing visits across a large number of employees and clients, adapting to changes in availability and client preferences, always ensuring that every client can get the care they require.

A day in the life:      

• Design, code, test, and debug complex software with a high level of quality, sitting as a full-time member of a feature development team.
• Provide technical leadership for your team, and assist in improving your colleagues’ skills through code reviews, technical mentoring, role-modelling, coaching, and knowledge-sharing.
• Lead technical innovation in the areas of component re-use, extensibility, maintainability and scalability.
• Monitor your applications in production, and proactively identify and fix issues clients are encountering.
• Contribute to defining and implementing the product-wide technical roadmap, ensuring the success of technical cross-team initiatives and responsible adoption of new technologies that are aligned with industry trends.
• In the future, participate in an on-call rotation (that respects your time) to support your team’s software.
• Identify gaps in product requirements and work with Product Owners to design features that meet client needs
• Plan, implement and execute end to end automated tests that validate good quality results.
• Help team members understand core concepts and tools of their craft.
• Anticipate problems, recognize barriers, and proactively raise concerns to management and to senior members of the technical organization.  

What you bring to the team:   

• 4+ years professional software engineering experience.
• Degree or diploma in Computer Science or Engineering or demonstrated learning experience.
• Development experience with Python and JavaScript (Vue preferred) and corresponding unit testing frameworks.
• Experience with SQL databases and building queries optimized for performance.
• Experience using Git, CI/CD tools, Docker, SQL Alchemy, cloud computing platforms (AWS preferred).
• Appetite for excellence in day-to-day tasks, from coding to writing documentation.
• Experience making difficult technical decisions in ambiguous situations.
• Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills (in written and spoken English) targeting both technical and non-technical audiences. 

Location and travel requirements:  

AlayaCare supports a flexible hybrid working model, expecting that our employees have a regular in-office presence at their closest office location while offering flexibility for some remote work. Our team encourages in-person collaboration and with this, the preferred candidate location for this position would be within the Greater Montreal Area. 

What Makes AlayaCare a Great Place to Work: 

• Our products have a positive impact on the lives of countless care workers and care recipients 
• Our company has been recognized by the Globe and Mail as one of Canada’s Top Growing Companies and as a recipient of Deloitte's Technology Fast 50TM program award for our rapid revenue growth, entrepreneurial spirit and bold innovation 
• Equity in a well-funded, high-growth company 
• Hybrid working models with beautiful and creative office spaces to enjoy in prime locations 
• Virtual and onsite social events for employees centered around collaboration, learning, and fun, including DEIBA committee events, volunteer events, fireside chats, catered team lunches, celebrations, and team building activities 
• Comprehensive group benefits program, including telemedicine 
• Employee expense program for health, wellness, lifestyle, professional development and productivity-related expenses 
• Parental leave top-up program 
• Flexible vacation policy 
• Company Wellness Day program for extra time to unwind 
• Paid Volunteer Time off Program 
• Career growth and learning and development opportunities 
• An entrepreneurial culture of transparency, collaboration, and innovation 
• Access to our employee perk program for discounts at various participating vendors 

If this sounds like the perfect job for you, apply today. As well as joining a great culture and a market-leading company, you will be part of a team making a positive difference in the post-acute care market. If this isn’t the job for you, you may know someone who is a perfect fit. Please feel free to share this opportunity.  

If you want to explore AlayaCare further, please visit our website www.alayacare.com.  

Better outcomes, better belonging   

Our team members are unique—like our products and the customer groups that we service. AlayaCare employees bring different strengths, perspectives, and experiences to their roles and to our products that enable better care. We are committed to offering a people-centric culture where all employees belong and feel heard.    

Having a pulse on our employee feedback is important to us as we aim to continuously evolve Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Accessibility within AlayaCare's policies, total rewards offerings, discussions, learning & development programs, and community partnerships. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration.    

If you require accommodation as part of the recruitment and selection process, please reach out to [email protected]. Please note, we do not accept unsolicited headhunter or agency resumes.   

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