Principal Software Engineer (Java)

Location: Hybrid in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, with residence within commutable distance of the office required. Hybrid team events and regular office attendance are expected.

Salary: CAD 142,700–178,400 per year

Company

hirify.global is a founder-led healthcare technology company providing a platform that connects clinical systems, supports real-time care coordination, and serves more than 30,000 provider organizations.

What you will do

• Build robust platform services supporting clinical operations and healthcare workflows.
• Partner with product and clinical teams to solve real workflow challenges.
• Drive architectural decisions for business platform services.
• Own reliability, scalability, and performance for critical healthcare solutions.
• Mentor team members on modern engineering practices and contribute to code reviews.

Requirements

• Strong track record building and shipping production software in Java, Python, or similar modern languages.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture and distributed-systems design patterns.
• Expertise designing, optimizing, and scaling relational SQL databases; NoSQL experience is a bonus.
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Proficiency in test-driven development, automated testing, and maintaining high code quality.
• Hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks, primarily React.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, production observability, monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Experience with Git workflows, collaborative development, constructive code reviews, and balancing feature delivery with reliability and technical excellence.
• Comfort using AI-augmented development tools throughout the development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, documentation, and incident response; on-call and incident-response responsibilities are required.

Nice to have

• Experience building and scaling SaaS platforms.
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives.
• Spring Boot and Java ecosystem experience.
• Azure cloud services and Kubernetes, including AKS.
• Healthcare technology or regulated-industry experience.
• Understanding of HIPAA compliance and sensitive-data handling.

Culture & Benefits

• Benefits start from Day 1 and include retirement-plan matching, flexible paid time off, wellness programs, parental and caregiver leave, and fertility and adoption support.
• Continuous development support, employee assistance resources, recognition programs, and allyship and inclusion communities are provided.
• AI tools are used to support candidate screening and assessment and to enhance engineering workflows.
• Hybrid work includes recurring team events and office attendance in Mississauga.