Position Summary – The Opal Health Informatics Group at the Research Institute of the MUHC is looking for a qualified full-stack developer to join our development team.

You will be responsible for developing new features of our award-winning Opal application (opalmedapps.com) which empowers patients with access to their health information. You are a tech-savvy professional with experience in leveraging the latest digital technologies to optimize web applications for efficiency and scalability, while maintaining a visually appealing design to ensure a great user experience. Your excellent communication and interpersonal skills allow you to translate business requirements and patient needs into a functional and patient-first focused application.

General Duties:

• Developing user-friendly front-end and back-end applications
• Ensuring web design is optimized for mobile-based devices
• Optimizing application for maximum speed and scalability
• Assist in creating servers and databases for functionality
• Designing and developing APIs
• Assist to update or tweak mockups and prototypes as needed
• Write reusable code and libraries
• Collaborate with various team members to troubleshoot reported issues
• Participate in writing functional requirement documents and guides
• Stay up to date on emerging technology

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a computer-related field
• Minimum 3 years’ experience as a full stack developer
• Proficiency with front end languages and frameworks such as HTML, JavaScript, Dart, jQuery, Angular JS and Flutter
• Proficiency with server-side languages and frameworks such as PHP, Perl, Python, Node.js & Laravel
• Familiarity with database technologies such as MariaDB, MySQL or Oracle
• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
• Strong organizational skills and great attention to detail
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of healthcare IT system requirements is an asset

Working Conditions:

THIS IS NOT A HOSPITAL POSITION.
The Research Institute of the MUHC encourages equity in employment.
This job offer is conditional upon the obtainment of a valid work permit.
NOTE: The masculine gender has been used for brevity and includes the feminine gender.
We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.