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Senior Full Stack Engineer / Node, TypeScript, PostgreSQL / Hybrid Toronto

Hybrid
Toronto, Ontario
Senior Level
full_time

Top Benefits

Competitive salary and equity options
4 weeks paid vacation, paid sick leave, and paid parental leave

About the role

We are partnering with a healthtech company that builds software to increase the capacity and efficiency of drug manufacturing. They are hiring a Senior Ful Stack Engineer to design and scale a secure, high-performing platform using Node and TypeScript. This is a full-time, hybrid role in Toronto.

You will join a small, highly collaborative team with significant ownership across architecture, product, and delivery. If you enjoy shaping engineering practices, choosing modern tooling, and shipping to production daily, this is a chance to have outsized impact on real-world outcomes, including cost reduction and safer bio and chemical manufacturing.

Required Skills & Experience

  • 5+ years building production backends, with strong proficiency in Node, TypeScript, and Express
  • Designing and implementing REST APIs, authentication, and secure data flows
  • PostgreSQL schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning
  • Caching with Redis, data sync strategies, and offline-tolerant patterns
  • Cloud deployment experience and operational ownership, CI/CD, monitoring, and alerts
  • Strong systems design, integration with third-party services, and product analytics instrumentation
  • Clear written communication, Git hygiene, and a pragmatic approach to shipping quality code

Desired Skills & Experience

  • Experience establishing longer-term cloud infrastructure and operations beyond Heroku
  • Real-time collaboration features, websockets, and state sync patterns
  • Frontend collaboration, implementing basic UI from Figma, familiarity with React and polished UX details
  • Email delivery pipelines, transactional templates, and eventing
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field from a reputable institution (considered a strong asset)
  • Interest in productivity systems and a low-ego, solution-focused mindset
  • Domain interest in healthcare, life sciences, or manufacturing

What You Will Be Doing Tech Breakdown

  • Backend development with Node.js & TypeScript, 50%
  • Database & caching (PostgreSQL, Redis), 25%
  • Cloud infrastructure & DevOps, 15%
  • UI collaboration with React & design team, 10%

Daily Responsibilities

  • Hands-on development and code reviews, 70%
  • Architecture and technical design, 15%
  • Cross-functional collaboration with design and product, 10%
  • Operational duties, deployments, and observability, 5%

The Offer You Will Receive The Following Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity options
  • 4 weeks paid vacation, paid sick leave, and paid parental leave
  • Fully distributed team within North American and European time zones
  • Company-paid co-working desk in your local community
  • New MacBook Pro, external display, and professional accessories

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in Canada on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Posted By: Kyle Mandryk

About Motion Recruitment

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Motion Recruitment delivers IT Talent Solutions for Contract, Direct Hire, Managed Solutions and Statement of Work to all of North America from our 21 delivery centers. Our high-touch, specialized, team-based recruitment model’s success is proven through our exemplary track record in filling the most challenging IT positions for startup and enterprise clients alike. Our hyper-specialized tech focus results in a truly consultative approach for both our clients and candidates, within our recruiting areas of expertise: Software, Mobile, Data, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Product + UX and Functional.

Motion also delivers IT Consulting Solutions through the Motion Consulting Group (MCG) that create true digital transformation for IT projects in Agile Development & Coaching, DevOps & DevSecOps Solutions, and Managed Services for IT Operations.

We’re also the proud creators of Tech in Motion and the Timmy Awards, our North American community platform, events series and award program that connects over 250,000 tech enthusiasts to meet, learn, and innovate.