Full Stack Software Engineer

Toronto, ON (Hybrid)            ·         Full time

About the job

NerveX is a neurotechnology company developing wearable and implantable devices for the treatment of neurological disorders. Over the past 7 years at the University of Toronto, the founding team developed state-of-the-art devices for machine learning-driven neuromodulation (patented and published) for the treatment of epilepsy. The company emerged from the 2020 cohort of the University of Toronto Early Stage Technology commercialization program (UTEST) and the 2022 Creative Destruction Lab (CDL). The technology received the Connaught Innovation Award, the RBC Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and has recently secured private funding.

We’re looking for a talented individual to fill the position of Full Stack Software Engineer to assist with building out our platform web services, backend infrastructure and responsive web app. The position would be working full time with the work occurring mostly remotely with occasional requirements to attend in-office meetings.

Responsibilities

Part of NerveX’s infrastructure includes web and mobile applications that enable remote biological data collection from our proprietary devices, unsupervised machine learning-driven analysis, user management, analytics and clinical reporting. You will be a core part of the development team that is obsessed with great user experience, quality, and technical ingenuity. You will work alongside the Chief Software Engineer with >15 years of industry experience.

• Participating in daily scrum meetings with development and product teams,
• Designing and developing backend services,
• Building and implementing the software to be simple, elegant, secure and performant,
• Tracking and managing your tasks and giving accurate estimates on requirements,
• Working with the product team to design and validate platform and app features,
• Assisting frontend developers in testing of the end-to-end application,
• Building and deploying the software in our AWS cloud environment in a secure, performant and well-documented manner,
• Managing and performing maintenance, changes and bug fixes,
• Managing the process of testing the software for compliance with security and privacy policies.

Qualifications

• Experience developing, testing and launching data-driven applications,
• Demonstrated knowledge of web development frameworks such as Spring Boot, ASP.NET, Django, Ruby on Rails, or similar,
• Demonstrated experience with front-end frameworks such as React or Vue,
• Experience with git, IDEs,
• Great written and verbal communication skills in English,
• A keen desire towards continuous learning and demonstrable cases where you have applied this to learn new things quickly.

Preferably you have

• Previous startup experience,
• Biomedical technology development experience,
• Understanding of lean product development principles and experience building a product from start to finish,
• DevOps / SRE experience in deploying and maintaining AWS,
• Experience with Python programming,
• Native mobile app development experience.

Education

• Computer Science / Computer Engineering related post secondary degree, diploma or equivalent real world experience.

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