Why join League

• Make an impact - Your work will directly improve the health outcomes of millions of lives
• Cutting-edge Technology: Work with sophisticated tech stack: Go, MongoDB and scalable architectures
• Inclusive culture: Be part of a globally distributed team working collaboratively
• Work flexibility: Flexibility to work from our Toronto HQ office or fully remote (within Canada only)

Our Hiring Team’s Mandate:

Identity Management (IdM) ensures that the right users access digital resources appropriately. It’s a crucial IT security and data management component within an organization. It includes supporting customers, consumers, workloads, and their workforces by accessing applications built on the League Platform.

About You:

As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend on our Identity Engineering Team, you will design, develop and scale critical identity services and middleware that power League’s Platform.

You will lead complex projects from discovery to delivery, working primarily with Go, Node.js, MongoDB, Auth0, Github & GCP. You will work as part of a small team to deliver features on our roadmap and contribute to building our developer program and tools. You’ll be responsible for large pieces of work, as well as setting best practices and mentoring other members of the team with openness and empathy. To thrive in this role, you are someone who works well in teams and enjoys collaborating

What you will do:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable backend services, and data storage solutions, ensuring adherence to engineering best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, proactively identifying root causes.
• Actively participate in technical design and planning discussions, contributing to system design and documentation (including ADRs)
• Uphold code quality standards through code reviews, bug fixes, automated tests, and performance monitoring.
• Lead complex projects from discovery to delivery phases, including requirement gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Mentor junior engineers, fostering their growth and development.
• Participate in our On-Call rotation

What you bring

• You have a minimum of 5 years backend development experience
• You enjoy delivering value to customers
• You have experience building scalable, fault-tolerant cloud  services
• You know how to write high-quality, testable code, and understand the tradeoffs between expediency and maintainability
• You understand how the web works and what a good API looks like
• When things break, you’re eager and able to help fix things

Bonus Experience

• Experience building and maintaining environments deployed through infrastructure-as-code pipelines.
• An understanding of basic cryptographic principles and systems.
• Strong experience or knowledge about OAuth, OpenID Connect or FIDO standards. 
• Experience working with Golang, Google Cloud Platform or Node.js

What We Offer

• Comprehensive Benefits: Generous health coverage for you and your family
• Growth Opportunities: Mentorship and a learning and development budget to support your professional growth
• Equity Participation: Share in the success of a high-growth company
• Wellness days: Take time off to reset and recharge

The Application Process:

We believe applying for a job should be straightforward and transparent. Here’s what to expect:

1. Submit Your Application: You’ll receive a confirmation email right away.
2. Hiring Manager Chat: If shortlisted, you will be meeting with the hiring manager straight away to discuss your technical experience
3. Talent screen: Learn more about our culture, get alignment on your compensation expectation prior to committing to next steps
4. Take-home assessment
5. Meet the Engineering Team: Dive into technical discussions and learn how you can make an impact at League.
6. Final Steps: Meet our cross-functional team and share experiences on collaboration
7. Offer and onboarding!

We value your time and effort—our team is committed to providing updates throughout the process.

Security-related Responsibilities

• Compliance with Information Security Policies
• Compliance with League’s secure coding practice
• Responsibility and accountability for executing League’s policies and procedures
• Notification of HR, Legal, Compliance & Security of any incidents, breaches or policy violations

• You should receive a confirmation email after submitting your application.
• A recruiter (not a computer) reviews all applications at League.
• If we see alignment with League’s needs, a recruiter will reach out to learn more about your goals. The recruiter will also share the team-specific interview process depending on the roles you are exploring.
• The final step is an offer, which we hope you will accept!
• Prior to joining us, we conduct reference and background checks. Additional checks could be required for US Candidates, depending on the role you are exploring.