Staff Software Developer (Remote Canada) at Smile Digital Health
Toronto
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Jul 19, 2026
Toronto
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on building and leading Clinical Intelligence features within a healthcare data platform. Day-to-day work spans backend Java/Spring Boot development, distributed quality measure processing, CQL execution, and FHIR-based API design, alongside mentoring junior developers and guiding technical decisions across cross-functional teams. Best suited to experienced engineers with a strong healthcare data background.
Staff level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 490 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 290–730
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The JD requires 10+ years in the SDLC overall and 4+ years in senior or staff-level roles; the overall years minimum is set to 10 (the role-level gate).
Degree requirement is set to None: the JD explicitly accepts 'equivalent professional experience' in lieu of a formal credential.
Cloud platform is stated as 'AWS, Azure, or GCP' — AWS is listed as the primary with Azure and GCP as named alternatives. Kubernetes is further qualified as EKS (AWS-specific), but the broader cloud requirement accepts any major provider.
ETL/ELT pipeline experience is required in the JD but names no specific tool beyond Kafka (already captured); the general pipeline requirement is represented by the Kafka skill.
HL7 is listed under the requirements section but softened with 'preferred' — treated as preferred accordingly.
dQM (Digital Quality Measures), CQL, SNOMED, and LOINC are explicitly called out as 'an asset' — treated as preferred.
No compensation figures are disclosed in the posting. The RRSP/TFSA mention suggests the role may be Canadian-based or open to Canadian candidates; however, the caller has declared this a fully-remote national pool, so no metro is inferred and currency defaults to USD.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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