Senior Backend Engineer II

at Prenuvo

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, hybrid, senior, full time, CAD 1,50,000–1,70,000 / year, 6–8 years

posted 09 Oct 2026

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Iterable
PostgreSQL
EventBridge
APNs
Datadog
GitHub Actions
Terraform
Docker
Pytest
SNS
AWS
Lambda
Python
OAuth2
JWT
GraphQL
DynamoDB
Redis
FCM
AWS SES
SQS
ECS
Twilio
FastAPI
REST APIs

About the role

Posted: 2026-10-09

What you would do

- Own the communications platform: Own the patient communications platform end to end, from design through rollout, including service architecture, on-call standards, and technical roadmap.

- Develop complex software solutions: Build and maintain scalable backend services using Python, FastAPI, and AWS event-driven services (EventBridge, SQS/SNS, Lambda, ECS) that power patient communications.

- Deliver reliably: Guarantee reliable, exactly-once message delivery through retries and failures, using idempotency, deduplication, backoff, and dead-letter handling and replay, with a clear status for every message we attempt.

- Build in consent: Build consent and preference handling into the send path, including channel and category opt-ins, STOP and unsubscribe propagation across systems, quiet hours, and clean separation of transactional and marketing messages.

- Make sends safe: Build safe tooling for one-off and bulk patient sends (audience preview, test sends, rate limits, kill switches) with least-privilege access to patient data and vendor credentials, so that a production send is always a deliberate, reviewed action.

- Evolve patient-facing APIs: Design and ship OpenAPI-first endpoints that follow our versioning and backward-compatibility standards for mobile clients we can't force-update, and help migrate consumers off legacy GraphQL.

- Ensure system reliability: Lead improvements in reliability, observability, and incident response using Datadog. You are accountable for whether a message actually reached the patient, not just whether the code merged.

- Raise engineering quality: Write comprehensive automated tests for the services you build, and improve the patterns, tooling, and processes that raise quality across teams.

- Provide technical guidance: Lead design discussions, review technical implementations, and mentor engineers across levels.

- Influence technical direction: Contribute to architectural decisions and the long-term evolution of the platform, partnering closely with Product, Design, Lifecycle Marketing, Clinical, and other engineering teams.

- Use AI-assisted development: Use AI coding tools and agentic workflows thoughtfully as part of a structured build, review, and test workflow.

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What they are looking for

- 6-8+ years of backend engineering experience owning production services, ideally in Python (or a similar language such as Ruby, Go, Node.js)

- Strong experience designing and building REST APIs, including contract design, versioning, and error handling, in a modern backend framework (e.g., FastAPI, Flask, Django, Express, Spring).

- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, including event-driven systems (EventBridge, SQS/SNS, Lambda, ECS), and modern CI/CD practices.

- Experience building and maintaining distributed systems and integrating with external APIs and webhooks, including idempotency, retries, rate limits, and partial failure.

- Deep knowledge of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, plus experience with NoSQL (e.g., DynamoDB) and caching (e.g., Redis).

- Experience implementing authentication and authorization (OAuth2, JWT, service-to-service security).

- Experience writing comprehensive backend tests (e.g., Pytest) and ensuring strong test coverage.

- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog or similar platforms.

- Ability to independently lead complex initiatives, make sound technical decisions, and balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability, including on-call and incident response for what you own.

- Ability to break down complex projects into components or milestones that other engineers can easily pick up.

- Comfortable with ambiguity, able to balance speed with quality, and willing to take ownership from design through production.

- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering and business teams.

- Experience with Iterable or a similar customer engagement platform (Braze, Customer.io, Klaviyo, Salesforce Marketing Cloud): event and user-profile APIs, journeys and workflows, message types and channels, and webhook processing.

- SMS experience at scale: Twilio or similar providers, 10DLC and short codes, opt-in capture and STOP handling, and TCPA and carrier compliance.

- Push notification experience: APNs and FCM (directly or through a platform), device token lifecycle, and deep linking into mobile apps.

- Email delivery experience: AWS SES or similar, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, bounce and complaint handling, and suppression lists.

- Notification orchestration: multi-channel routing, preference centers, frequency capping, and scheduled or reminder-based messaging.

- GraphQL experience, Backend-for-Frontend patterns, or close partnership with native iOS/Android teams.

- Familiarity with FHIR or other healthcare data models.

- Familiarity with Terraform, Docker, and GitHub Actions.

- Experience working in highly regulated industries, including handling sensitive health data.

Our Values

First: we are Pioneers

- Transforming healthcare requires divergent thinking, bias for action, disciplined experimentation, and consistent grit and determination to maintain momentum. This journey is as challenging as it is rewarding.

Second: we are Platform-Builders

- We’re always building foundations that allow us to achieve tomorrow more than we did today. We never lose sight of what’s ahead – in a mindset of ownership and duty to our mission.

Above all: we are Patients

- We could all be the next person who walks through our very doors, seeking clarity or peace of mind. We are proud of our impact on our patients’ lives, and we won’t stop till everyone can benefit from our work.

What comes with it

- An avenue to make a positive impact on people's lives and their health

- We believe in preventative healthcare for everyone, including our team - Prenuvo provides free, whole-body scans to each team member

- Growth opportunities are at the heart of our people journey, we’re doing big things with bright minds - there is no single path to success, it can be shaped along the way

- Building strong relationships is at the core of everything we do - our team gets together each week to connect, share, and socialize

- Recognizing time away to restore is vital to our wellbeing - we have a flexible vacation policy and we will encourage you to use it

- We offer a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, including Mental Health coverage, to support you and your family

- Prenuvo offers eligible Canadian employees access to both RRSP and TFSA retirement savings plans, with immediate, optional enrollment and the flexibility to invest and save for the future on your own terms. While Prenuvo provides access to these plans, the company does not currently offer matching contributions.

- The base salary for this role ranges from $150,000-$170,000 in local currency, depending upon experience and geographic location

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

As part of the hiring process, successful candidates will undergo a background check in compliance to applicable federal, provincial, and state rules.

Please be advised that official communication from our recruitment team will only come from our authorized domain [prenuvo.com]. If you are contacted by a recruiter, please ensure their email address ends with @prenuvo.com. We do not use third-party recruitment services or any other email domains for hiring purposes. If you receive communication that you believe to be fraudulent, please report it immediately to jobs@prenuvo.com.