Molecular You is a health tech company that turns complex biomarker science into actionable insight for everyday people. We're looking for a senior backend engineer to own platform quality — consistency across services, thoughtful tech adoption, security and compliance, and shipping things through to done. Compensation is $120,000–$140,000 CAD depending on experience. You'll also work closely with our scientific product manager to co-design new health report products, which means you'll need genuine curiosity about how biology works. You don't need a science degree — but if you've ever looked at your own lab results and wondered what they actually mean, that's the instinct.What you'll ownPlatform quality and consistency — you notice when two services handle errors differently and fix it, not file a ticketThoughtful introduction of new technology — you're skeptical until it earns its place, then you drive adoption throughSecurity and compliance balance — you've made design decisions where delivery and security were in tension, and you navigated them with judgment, not just cautionProduction improvements from diagnosis through to resolution — you close the loopNew health report products developed alongside our scientific PM — from clinical question to shipped featureWhat we're looking forProduction experience with Ruby on Rails and Elixir/Phoenix — shipped and operated, not just familiarDistributed systems in practice: async messaging (RabbitMQ or similar), failure modes,



idempotency, dead-letter queuesInfrastructure ownership: Terraform and AWS at a level where you can drive a change, not just read oneAt least one example of reducing platform entropy — a migration, deprecation, or refactor that made a system class simpler, not just largerExperience owning a security or compliance decision end-to-end (HIPAA/PIPEDA context is a plus; the judgment is the requirement)Explicit, direct communication — you can explain a technical trade-off to a scientific PM without either oversimplifying or retreating into jargonIf you meet most of these but not all, we'd still like to hear from you. We're looking for the right person, not the perfect checklist.How we workWe use Shape Up: six-week cycles with real autonomy, followed by cooldown periods where you help shape what comes next. You'll have direct access to customer feedback and clinical context. Engineering, product, and science work closely together here — decisions get made in conversations, not committees.We're a small team. Your voice will carry. So will your follow-through.Our stackRuby on Rails · Elixir/Phoenix · RabbitMQ · PostgreSQL · Terraform · AWS · GitHubWhat we offerOwnership of platform quality and engineering standards across a production health platformA role where your architectural decisions are load-bearing, and you'll know it Vancouver-based, hybrid — we work together in person and value flexibility

📌 Senior Software Engineer, Health Data (Vancouver)
🏢 Molecularyou
📍 Vancouver