Job Specifications
About League
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.
What You’ll Work On
Designing and building REST and WebSocket APIs
Developing scalable backend services in Go
Building new products and integrations
Writing clean, testable, maintainable production code
Participating in code reviews and architectural discussions
Improving test automation and system reliability
Leveraging AI tools to accelerate development, debugging, documentation, and testing
Contributing to technical design and implementation planning
What We’re Looking For
Core Engineering Skills
Experience building backend applications (academic, personal, or professional projects)
Strong programming fundamentals (data structures, APIs, system design basics)
Hands-on coding experience in Go or another backend language
Understanding of databases and API design principles
Exposure to automated testing practices
AI Tooling & AI-Enabled Development (Strongly Preferred)
Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.)
Ability to effectively prompt, evaluate, and iterate with AI tools
Demonstrated use of AI to improve productivity, code quality, debugging, or learning
Comfort working in an AI-augmented engineering workflow
Curiosity about how AI can improve engineering systems and processes
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
Previous engineering co-op or internship experience
Exposure to cloud platforms (GCP preferred)
Experience contributing to team projects
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
As part of your application, please record a 1-minute video answering:
“Why do you want to work at League?”
Upload your video to Google Drive or YouTube, and share the link in a clickable PDF with your application.
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.
Our employees come from different backgrounds, and we celebrate those differences. We are looking for the best candidates for our open roles, but do not expect applicants to meet every qualification in order to be considered. If you are excited about what you could accomplish at League and believe you can add value to our team, we would love to hear from you.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you are an individual in need of assistance at any time during our recruitment process, please contact us at recruitinginfo@league.com.
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About the Company
Founded in 2014, League is a platform technology company powering next-generation healthcare consumer experiences. Payers, providers, consumer health partners and employers build on League’s platform to deliver high-engagement, personalized healthcare experiences consumers love. Millions of people use solutions powered by League to access, navigate and pay for care.
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