Senior Backend Engineer

At Swoop, our mission is simple: Improving patient outcomes. As a market leader in AI-driven, data-powered, and privacy-compliant healthcare engagement, we connect the signals that drive earlier diagnosis, better treatment decisions, and sustained adherence. Our integrated, privacy-safe platform, enables life sciences companies to drive measurable patient and commercial outcomes with actionable intelligence — spanning patient and HCP audience targeting, community engagement, AI-powered web solutions, coordinated omnichannel activation, and prescription fulfillment. We believe our people are our greatest asset. Swoop fosters a culture of innovation and continuous learning, providing employees with rich opportunities for professional growth. This commitment to our team earned us the "Best Places to Work" recognition from Business Intelligence Group in 2025 and 2026. We are driven by a patient-first philosophy and passionate about leveraging technology to create a healthier future. After becoming an independent company in 2024, Swoop experienced significant growth and demonstrated an unwavering commitment to innovation, talent development, and enhancing the patient experience. Our acquisition of MyHealthTeam in January 2025 and Nimble in May 2026 helped us further bridging the gap between healthcare brands and patients for more impactful and targeted engagement. Empowering millions of patients nationwide to connect, share resources, and access medically verified information to better manage their health. MyHealthTeam hosts the largest and most engaged patient social networks in healthcare, offering more than 70 condition-specific communities for chronic and rare conditions. As a prescription fulfillment and patient engagement platform, Nimble empowers independent and regional pharmacies to deliver a modern, consumer-friendly healthcare experience while streamlining pharmacy operations. If you're a driven professional seeking to make a real difference in healthcare marketing at a fast-growing, innovative company, join Swoop and help us revolutionize how brands connect with patients and HCPs. Current Canadian work authorization is strongly preferred. Visa sponsorship may be considered on an exceptional basis for highly qualified candidates who possess specialized skills critical to this role As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will have a hand in architecting the technology and customer experience that are pivotal to multiple web products for patients, pharmacies and other customers of NimbleRx (www.nimblerx.com). You will join a team of world-class, highly motivated software engineers who build for performance, reliability, and scalability. You will work closely with other developers, as well as with groups such as product management and design, to understand feature requirements and functional and technical use cases. With your colleagues, you will work to deliver high-quality code on time. Our engineering culture: We operate with shared trust and no egos. We enjoy being "in this together" and collaborating on the challenges of a rapidly scaling business. We daily live out our company values of empathy, simplicity, autonomy, leadership, ownership, burning curiosity, bias for action, mentorship, and operate with context, not control, in a highly collaborative environment. You will: Build a scalable platform, API, and services that people love to useTake ownership of backend features, from design to implementation to releaseMentor junior engineers and internsPromote best practices and high-quality development techniquesTackle tough design and technical problemsEnhance our systems' usability and performance, ensuring a consistent user experience What you bring: 5+ years of experience with backend APIs, services, and platform developmentRich development experience with Java, Spring, and SQLExperience developing scalable, customer-facing, web-based applications Excellent communication skillsNice to have: experience with React, Terraform / Terragrunt, or AWS About you: You are mission-driven and want to write code that makes a differenceYou take pride in your work and deliver high-quality code on timeYou are an innovator with good ideas, strong problem-solving abilities, and a results-oriented attitudeYou value and take responsibility for the quality of your features; you test your own code and review your teammates' codeYou have good judgment on project priorityYou deliver high-value features with simple and fast solutionsYou own complex projects end-to-end with minimal guidance; you take a leadership or driver role in the engineering process throughout planning, designing, delivery, and maintenance What's in it for you: Compassionate and driven colleagues in a fun environment where success is celebratedAccelerated career growth in a fast-growing companyCoaching from experienced engineering leadersDirect access to executives and a transparent company cultureRare opportunity to change an industry and lives of millionsWe are reinventing healthcare / pharmacy - your (grand)parents and your (grand)children will understand and appreciate what you doMedical / Dental / VisionFlexible Vacation Time Policy 12 Paid HolidaysWork with a collaborative team out of our office at WaterPark Place, in the Harbourfront area just south of Union Station At Nimble, we are dedicated to putting patients first and improving pharmacies across America. Join us on this exciting journey! Diversity, inclusion and belonging at Nimble: Nimble is building a diverse and inclusive work environment where we learn from each other. We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of diverse backgrounds, abilities and perspectives. We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.