Technical Lead, API & Integration Engineering
Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan21 hours ago
Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of API and integration solutions while mentoring developers.
- Build and evolve API and integration services using .NET Core, cloud functions, or serverless technologies.
- Design enterprise integration layers, backend-for-frontend and orchestration patterns, and integrations with legacy systems.
- Implement secure authentication and authorization using JWT, OAuth/OIDC, managed identity, Key Vault, private endpoints, and least-privilege controls.
- Design resilience, asynchronous workflows, messaging, caching, read models, eventual consistency, reconciliation, and downstream status tracking.
- Establish API quality gates covering unit, integration, contract, performance, security, regression, and release-readiness testing.
- Guide technical planning, dependency management, design decisions, risk mitigation, release management, and production change controls.
- Partner with product, business, QA, architecture, frontend, and operations teams from discovery through delivery.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years focused on APIs, integration engineering, backend platform engineering, or service-oriented application development.
- 3+ years designing and delivering integrations in Azure cloud-native environments or equivalent AWS/GCP services, including serverless compute, messaging, relational data stores, caching, secrets management, identity, API gateways, monitoring, and observability.
- Strong experience building secure, reliable APIs with .NET, ASP.NET Core, cloud functions, serverless services, or comparable enterprise API frameworks.
- Experience with API gateways, Azure API Management or equivalent AWS/GCP services, F5/WAF patterns, throttling, rate limiting, and centralized API policy enforcement.
- Experience leading small technical or feature teams through delivery, including technical planning, developer mentorship, dependency management, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, environment promotion, release management, code review, secure development practices, and production change controls.
- Proven experience designing enterprise integration layers and implementing backend-for-frontend, orchestration, proxy, abstraction, or anti-corruption-layer patterns at scale.
- Strong communication skills across technical and business teams.
- Experience integrating backend APIs with React, Next.js, or similar frontend technologies is an asset.
- Experience in regulated or high-trust environments such as financial services or healthcare is an asset.
Benefits
- 100% company-paid extended health and dental benefits for permanent employees, including mental health, gender affirmation, fertility, drug treatment, and psychological support coverage.
- HOOPP defined benefit pension plan and optional post-retirement health and dental benefits subsidized at 50%.
- Parental leave top-up, health spending account, and psychological support benefits of $2,500 per year.
- Learning and development opportunities including workshops, Speaker Series events, and LinkedIn Learning.
- Wellness programming including yoga classes, meditation workshops, nutritional consultations, and wellness seminars.
- Eligible for discretionary incentive plans subject to applicable plan terms.
- The role is newly created and offers an inclusive, people-focused work environment.
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About Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan
Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) administers a multi-employer defined benefit pension for Ontario’s hospital and community healthcare sector, investing contributions to deliver lifetime retirement income. Its plan is funded by employer and employee contributions and investment returns, and serves over 460,000 members across more than 670 employers. Established in 1960 and headquartered in Toronto, it operates as a nonprofit with in-house investment management and pension administration.