Senior Backend Engineer in Winnipeg

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.

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.

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. 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.

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, and mentorship. We operate with context, not control, in a highly collaborative environment.

What you’ll do:

• Build a scalable platform, API, and services that people love to use.
• Take ownership of backend features, from design to implementation to release.
• Mentor junior engineers and interns.
• Promote best practices and high-quality development techniques.
• Tackle tough design and technical problems.
• Enhance our systems’ usability and performance, ensuring a consistent user experience.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with backend APIs, services, and platform development.
• Rich development experience with Java, Spring, and SQL.
• Experience developing scalable, customer-facing, web-based applications.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Nice to have: experience with React, Terraform/Terragrunt, or AWS.

About you:

• You are mission-driven and want to write code that makes a difference.
• You take pride in your work and deliver high-quality code on time.
• You are an innovator with good ideas, strong problem-solving abilities, and a results-oriented attitude.
• You value and take responsibility for the quality of your features; you test your own code and review your teammates’ code.
• You have good judgment about project priorities.
• You deliver high-value features with simple and fast solutions.
• You own complex projects end-to-end with minimal guidance.
• You take a leadership or driver role in the engineering process throughout planning, design, delivery, and maintenance.