Contribute to developing scalable backend services in Go, while leveraging AI tools for enhancing code quality and velocity in a fast-moving engineering environment.
Founded in 2014, League is the leading healthcare consumer experience (CX) platform, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), reaching more than 63 million people around the world and delivering the highest level of personalization in the industry. Payers, providers, and consumer health partners build on League’s platform to deliver high-engagement healthcare solutions proven to improve health outcomes. League has raised over $285 million in venture capital funding to date, powering the digital experiences for some of healthcare’s most trusted brands, including Highmark Health, Manulife, Medibank, and Shoppers Drug Mart.
A&S Backend Engineer
Join our Apps & Solutions Backend Engineering team and help implement the League platform for our customers. As a Backend Engineer Co-op, you’ll gain hands-on experience designing and building production backend services, APIs, and data systems that support real users at scale.
We are an AI-forward engineering organization. We leverage modern AI tools extensively across our development lifecycle, from design and prototyping to coding, testing, documentation, and refactoring. We’re looking for candidates who are not only strong engineers but who actively use AI tools to accelerate learning, improve code quality, and increase impact.
This co-op is your opportunity to sharpen your backend fundamentals while working in a fast-moving, AI-enabled environment where engineering velocity and quality both matter.
Core Engineering Skills
AI Tooling & AI-Enabled Development (Strongly Preferred)
We strongly prefer candidates who already integrate AI tools into their daily development workflow and can articulate how those tools improve their output.
Nice to Have
Security-related Responsibilities:
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Please note: This is an in-office position at our Toronto HQ from Monday to Thursday and Fridays are work-from-home. We really value fostering in-person connection and collaboration which is especially advantageous as learning opportunity for a Co-op student.
Work Location:
We have a mix of office-centric roles based in our vibrant Toronto office, and remote-eligible roles based anywhere in Canada or US. Each job posting will indicate where the role will be based. Regardless of the role’s posted location, all Toronto-area Leaguers (living within 65 km of our downtown HQ) collaborate in-office Monday through Thursday. Depending on your distance to the office, you’ll enjoy 10 or 20 Flexible Remote Days each quarter for focus and deep-work time. We are committed to fostering a meaningful work environment and connections for all Leaguers regardless of location.
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