At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and scale core platform infrastructure and backend systems for innovative healthcare solutions.
- Company: ExaCare, a leading health tech company transforming post-acute care with AI.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, equity, flexible PTO, and comprehensive health coverage.
- Other info: Dynamic team culture with ex-Amazon engineers and opportunities for rapid career growth.
- Why this job: Join a high-growth startup and make a real impact in healthcare technology.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in software engineering with strong backend and cloud experience.
The predicted salary is between 135000 - 165000 $ per year.
Organizations switch to ExaCare because their admission processes are broken. They rely on multiple outdated platforms and error-prone manual work to admit residents. This fragmentation wastes time and leads to suboptimal care and business outcomes. We’re looking for a high-ownership Senior Platform Engineer to build and scale the infrastructure, backend systems, and internal platform capabilities that power ExaCare’s products and engineering velocity.
What you'll do
- Build and scale core platform infrastructure.
- Design and maintain reliable backend services, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and internal platform systems that support rapid product development and scalable operations.
- Own production systems end-to-end.
- Develop and operate highly available distributed systems using TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AWS, and modern infrastructure tooling. Ensure systems are secure, observable, fault-tolerant, and performant.
- Improve developer velocity.
- Create internal tooling, deployment automation, developer workflows, feature flag systems, and platform abstractions that help the engineering team ship faster and more confidently.
- Lead reliability and operational excellence.
- Establish best practices around monitoring, incident response, infrastructure-as-code, testing, deployment safety, and system resiliency. Participate in production incident triage and continuous reliability improvements.
- Architect scalable backend systems.
- Design APIs, background processing systems, event-driven workflows, queues, and integrations that support complex healthcare operations at scale.
- Drive platform innovation.
- Evaluate and implement modern infrastructure patterns, AI-powered developer workflows, and scalable cloud-native technologies that improve engineering productivity and product capabilities.
- Collaborate cross-functionally.
- Work closely with product, engineering, and operations teams to translate business needs into robust technical systems and platform capabilities.
What you'll bring
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend systems, infrastructure, platform engineering, or DevOps.
- Experience building and operating scalable distributed systems in production environments.
- Strong proficiency with TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and REST APIs.
- Hands-on experience with serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions.
- Deep experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and modern DevOps tooling.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and system reliability practices.
- Experience designing secure, resilient, and maintainable backend architectures.
- Ability to rapidly learn new technologies and independently execute ambiguous, high-impact projects.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly across teams.
- Bonus: experience working with LLM infrastructure, AI tooling, or event-driven architectures.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity in a high-growth startup.
- Flexible PTO, take what you need.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Great startup culture, including company off-sites.
- High-achieving team, including ex-Amazon engineers and alumni of Bain, BCG, Goldman Sachs, and more.
About ExaCare
ExaCare is a leading health tech company on a mission to build the AI operating system for post-acute care. Our platform turns messy, unstructured referral packets into clear clinical insights and next steps, so teams can make faster, safer placement decisions with less administrative burden. Today, ExaCare powers more than 2,000 facilities and is growing rapidly. We recently raised a $30M Series A led by Insight Partners and are bringing world-class talent together to transform healthcare. If you like building, learning, and want to make a real impact, come join us!
Remote Toronto & Vancouver, Hybrid in New York.
Senior Software Engineer in Toronto employer: ExaCare, Inc.
At exacare ai, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic and collaborative work culture. As a Senior Product Manager, you'll have the opportunity to lead innovative projects in a fast-paced environment while working alongside a talented team of professionals dedicated to transforming healthcare. With competitive salaries, flexible PTO, and a commitment to employee growth, we ensure that our team members thrive both personally and professionally as they contribute to meaningful advancements in post-acute care.
