Scaling Precision Medicine with PhenoTips At PhenoTips, we are transforming genetic medicine by helping healthcare providers seamlessly integrate genomic insights into patient care. Backed by top Canadian investors, leading healthcare institutions, and researchers, our platform powers precision medicine for health systems, clinics, and research organizations worldwide. We are looking for a Senior Full-stack Software Developer who can move confidently across our front-end and back-end to build features that directly shape how clinicians capture, interpret, and act on genomic data. You will work closely with Product, Design, and fellow engineers to ship reliable, secure, and performant software in a regulated healthcare environment. This is a hands-on role for someone who wants ownership over meaningful technical decisions and can operate with limited oversight. Pay range: CA$90,000 – $125,000. We understand that compensation is a large factor in evaluating opportunities. This pay range represents our target for the role, and is determined by market data, the planned responsibilities, and internal equity. Offers are usually near the midpoint, but the final amount may be adjusted based on your experience and skills. One Year From Now, Here’s How You’ll Be Seen: Your Team Sees You As – A dependable, technically strong engineer who owns features end to end, writes code others trust, and raises the bar on how the team builds and reviews software. Customers See You As – The reason their day to day with PhenoTips feels effortless. The features you build work the way they expect, load when they need them to, and hold up as their workflows grow more complex. The Company Sees You As – A key technical contributor who can be trusted with ambiguous problems, who ships thoughtfully in a healthcare context, and who helps the engineering team scale sustainably. How You’ll Make This Happen Build and Ship Full Stack Features
• Design, build, and maintain features across the stack, from data models and APIs through to the user interfaces clinicians and genetic counselors rely on.
• Create database schemas that represent and support complex clinical data such as pedigrees, phenotypes and genetic results
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and contribute to a codebase that will keep growing in scale and complexity.
• Participate in code reviews as both reviewer and author, holding a high bar for quality, security, and clarity.
• Debug and resolve production issues, balancing speed with the care required in a healthcare software environment. Own Technical Decisions and Quality
• Contribute to architectural discussions and make sound tradeoffs between speed, maintainability, and scalability.




• Modernize and refactor existing code and frameworks while maintaining legacy functionality where needed.
• Help evolve our engineering practices, including testing strategy, CI/CD, and deployment processes.
• Protect patient health information in line with PHIPA, HIPAA, UK GDPR and NHS data security requirements, and the security reviews our hospital customers carry out
• Proactively identify technical debt and bring forward pragmatic proposals to address it. Collaborate Across Product and Engineering
• Partner with Product and clinical workflow specialists to translate customer and clinical needs into well-scoped, buildable features.
• Work with fellow engineers on shared services and components, keeping the platform consistent and easy to extend.
• Communicate progress, risks, and technical tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Support junior engineers and the onboarding and training of recent team members, as required. Document and Share Knowledge
• Write clear PRs, technical specs and developer documentation for features, APIs and workflows What You Bring
• 5+ years of professional software development experience across both frontend and backend
• Production experience building frontend applications in React, with strong JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML and CSS
• Strong Java skills, with experience in Spring Boot and the Spring Framework
• Experience with relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and REST API design
• Solid understanding of authentication, authorisation and secure coding practices (OWASP)
• Experience writing automated tests (e.g. JUnit, Jest, Playwright) and working with CI
• Comfortable with Git-based workflows, code review, Unix shells and Docker
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across the full stack
• Clear written and verbal communication, able to explain technical decisions to both technical and clinical stakeholders
• Self-directed and organised, with a genuine interest in improving clinical workflows through technology Bonus Points
• Experience with Hibernate ORM
• Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG)
• Experience with healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR) or bioinformatics
• Experience with search and indexing (Elasticsearch or Apache Solr)




• Familiarity with web servers and server architecture (Apache, NGINX)
• Experience in healthcare or genetics
• Experience mentoring other developers or leading small technical initiatives Benefits and Perks
• Comprehensive health, drug, and dental coverage, plus a Health Spending Account and a Personal Wellness/Productivity fund to use on what matters most to you.
• We are primarily a remote-first team with flexible schedules. We value outcomes over clock-punching, and support genuine work-life balance.
• A $500 stipend to help ensure you have a comfortable and ergonomic home setup.
• Paid vacation, personal/sick days, and our favorite: extended long weekends throughout the summer.
• We get together for annual company retreats to bond, brainstorm, and celebrate our wins in person. The Details
• Role: Full-time, permanent
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Location:
Fully remote within Canada
• Eligibility: Must be Canadian resident and authorized to work in Canada (sorry, no sponsorship available at this time)
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How to Apply
Submit your resume and attach a cover letter in one document. For your cover letter, please tell us in a few paragraphs why you’re interested in PhenoTips and this specific role, by November 13, 2026.
• Next Steps: We’re a small team, so while we’d love to chat with everyone, we only contact candidates moving on to interviews. Our process usually includes some job-related assessments (we’ll give you a heads-up first) and, for the final stretch, we’ll ask for professional references and a standard background check after a conditional offer. Our Commitments Diversity: To solve complex problems in healthcare, we need a team that reflects the diversity of the world we serve. PhenoTips is committed to equity and accessibility at every stage of the journey. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals, particularly those from underrepresented communities. Accessibility Accommodations: Should you require any specific accommodations during the recruitment process, please reach out to: [email protected]. Data privacy: We value your privacy. By applying, you’re consenting to PhenoTips using your info to see if we’re a good match. We only share

your profile
with the hiring team and keep it only as long as we need to for legal and recruitment reasons. Use of AI: We encourage the appropriate, thoughtful use of AI throughout our business, including our hiring process. We may use AI tools to help our recruitment team with the hiring process, such as analyzing resumes and reviewing responses, but they do not replace human judgment. All hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans.

📌 Senior Full-stack Software Developer (Canada)
🏢 PhenoTips
📍 Canada