Senior Software Engineer

Magical

$100K — $130K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software development experience
  • Proven experience building and owning backend systems in production
  • Ability to transform ambiguous product requirements into a clear technical plan
  • Strong systems design skills including distributed systems, databases, APIs, and async workflows
  • Experience integrating AI tools into development processes
  • Strong bias for action with a focus on shipping and iteration
  • Desire to take ownership and mentor teammates

Responsibilities

  • Design and build backend and full-stack systems for AI agents
  • Set technical direction for projects with ambiguous requirements
  • Develop features for automation, workflow pathways, and production reporting
  • Enhance runtime reliability through effective state management and alerts
  • Own critical services throughout the architecture and deployment lifecycle

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model based in Toronto
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI and healthcare technology
  • Engagement in a collaborative environment focused on innovation
  • Chance to mentor and develop your peers
  • Involvement in meaningful projects that impact healthcare automation
Full Job Description
About the Role

As a Senior Engineer at Magical, you'll build and own the systems powering our AI agents. You'll set technical direction for projects, drive delivery, enhance your team's effectiveness, and take end-to-end ownership of core systems.

Our platform orchestrates long-running, high-stakes healthcare workflows-managing queues, run state, browser automation, model calls, evaluations, observability, and human-in-the-loop recovery.

You'll help transform unstructured customer inputs-SOPs, decision trees, portal behaviors, and edge cases-into dependable automations. You'll build systems that can draft, test, and enhance workflows, catch failures, recommend edits, and know when human intervention is needed. You'll also contribute to improving runtime reliability, workflow pathways, evaluations, and specialized agents for critical healthcare tasks.

This is a hybrid role based in our Toronto office.

What You'll Do
  • Design and build backend and full-stack systems for AI agents and healthcare automations
  • Set technical direction within a project or product area, especially when requirements are ambiguous
  • Build features for automation creation, workflow pathways, testing, editing, and production run reporting
  • Improve runtime reliability through systems for run state management, queues, idempotency, error classification, alerts, and dashboards
  • Own critical services from architecture through deployment, monitoring, and iteration


You May Be a Fit If
  • You have 5+ years of software development experience.
  • You've built and owned backend systems deployed in production
  • You can turn ambiguous product requirements into a clear technical plan
  • You have strong systems design skills-distributed systems, databases, APIs, queues, async workflows, and observability
  • You've integrated AI tools into your development workflow and are willing to experiment with new approaches
  • You have a strong bias for action-you ship, learn, prioritize ruthlessly, and iterate quickly
  • You take full ownership of your systems and enjoy mentoring teammates


Even Better If
  • You have experience building platform, infrastructure, or workflow systems at scale
  • You have built agentic products or agent-based workflows
  • You've integrated LLMs or AI models into production backend systems
  • You have a background in event-driven architectures, workflow engines, observability, or runtime reliability
  • You have experience in healthcare operations or revenue cycle management


We're building the best self-serve agentic automation platform for healthcare, and we're just getting started. Come join us!

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