Software Developer, SharePoint Backend (Montreal QC)

Introduction

Join Montrium as a Software Developer, SharePoint Backend and help build and evolve the backend capabilities behind our Connect platform for life sciences customers. You will work with SharePoint platform configuration, APIs, SDKs, data models, and regulated content workflows to deliver reliable product capabilities that help life sciences teams manage critical regulated processes with confidence, traceability, and efficiency.

Company Overview

Founded in 2005, Montrium is a cloud-based solutions provider serving the life sciences industry. We combine software, cloud, quality, and GxP regulatory expertise to help organizations manage regulated processes with greater efficiency, compliance, and traceability.

Montrium’s Connect platform supports life sciences organizations by helping them manage regulated content and processes across the research and development lifecycle. Today, thousands of users across more than 35 countries use Connect to support compliant, traceable, and effective operations.

Our team brings together experienced professionals in life sciences, regulatory compliance, quality assurance, system design, cloud operations, and software development. Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, Montrium has built a reputation for excellence, practical innovation, and a strong commitment to quality.

Our Commitment to Employees and Customers

Montrium is committed to building trust and making a difference for employees, customers, and communities. We foster a collaborative environment where team members communicate openly, take ownership of their work, and contribute to meaningful outcomes.

We value autonomy, respect, continuous growth, and equal opportunity. We encourage people to share perspectives, exchange ideas respectfully, and grow their careers in ways that support both personal development and customer impact.

Most importantly, your work will help connect people, processes, and technology in ways that support regulated life sciences research and contribute to better outcomes for patients.

Job Description

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, the Software Developer , SharePoint Backend helps maintain, extend, and modernize the backend components that support Montrium’s Connect platform. This role focuses on developing application logic, integrations, templates, workflows, and data-driven capabilities that interact with SharePoint through its configuration model, object models, SDKs, web services, and APIs.

As a member of the Development team, you will contribute to the following areas

Develop and modernize backend product capabilities

• Develop, maintain, and modernize backend product components that interact with SharePoint services, configuration, data structures, and integration interfaces.
• Configure and extend SharePoint structures, including templates, lists, libraries, metadata, permissions, workflows, and settings that support Connect product features and regulated content processes.
• Develop and maintain ASPX-based forms and related application components that capture, validate, and present data through SharePoint lists, libraries, workflows, metadata, and backend service interactions.
• Build and maintain integrations using SharePoint APIs, SDKs, object models, web services, and related Microsoft platform technologies.
• Translate product requirements, technical designs, and regulated workflow needs into reliable, maintainable, and testable application code.
• Troubleshoot product and support issues involving API behavior, permissions, configuration, data access, workflow execution, and backend service interactions.
• Improve the reliability, security, performance, and maintainability of existing backend application features and integration patterns.
• Participate in release preparation and packaging activities, including validation of configuration changes, preparation of deployment artifacts, release-note documentation, and controlled promotion of backend components across environments.
• Document configuration patterns, integration points, backend behaviors, and operational procedures that enable repeatable delivery, troubleshooting, and knowledge sharing.

This role is ideal for a developer who enjoys solving product problems close to the backend and integration layers. You will help keep established customer-facing capabilities reliable today while contributing to improved patterns, stronger maintainability, and the gradual evolution of Connect’s technical foundation.

Contribute to a collaborative engineering culture

• Collaborate with developers, architects, product owners, quality assurance, DevOps, and support teams to deliver reliable product capabilities.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, troubleshooting, and improvements to engineering practices.
• Use modern productivity and AI-assisted development tools, including GitHub Enterprise Copilot and Microsoft 365 AI capabilities, to improve coding, documentation, collaboration, and engineering efficiency while applying sound professional judgment.
• Communicate technical risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and delivery progress clearly.
• Share knowledge, support team learning, and work with autonomy, accountability, curiosity, and respect for sustainable delivery practices.

You will join a collaborative engineering team that values practical design, shared ownership, and sustainable delivery. If you enjoy improving established systems, learning new technologies, and making thoughtful engineering decisions, this role may be a strong fit.

Required Qualifications

• Five or more years of software development experience, including hands-on experience with SharePoint applications or Microsoft platform development.
• Strong experience with C#, .NET, and related application development technologies, with working knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and web application patterns.
• Experience developing against SharePoint APIs, SDKs, object models, web services, or integration interfaces.
• Experience configuring and extending SharePoint data structures and platform capabilities, including lists, libraries, content types, metadata, views, templates, permissions, workflows, and regulated document or content processes.
• Experience working with SharePoint permission models, identity concepts, groups, inheritance, and secure access patterns in platform-based applications.
• Experience packaging, deploying, or promoting SharePoint-related configuration, templates, features, or application components across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Experience troubleshooting application issues involving backend configuration, API interactions, permissions, data access, workflow execution, and platform behavior.
• Working knowledge of Git, CI/CD practices, code review, unit testing, automated functional testing, and controlled software delivery.
• Understanding of secure development practices and how security principles apply to platform-based applications.
• College diploma, university degree, or equivalent practical experience in software development, computer science, information technology, or a related field.

Additional Qualifications

• Experience with SharePoint Server, SharePoint Subscription Edition, hybrid SharePoint environments, or classic SharePoint customization and deployment models.
• Experience with legacy SharePoint technologies such as ASPX-based forms, WCF/SOAP services, or XSLT.
• Experience troubleshooting production or customer-facing SharePoint-backed applications, including issues involving permissions, configuration, data access, workflow execution, and integration behavior.
• Experience maintaining, improving, or modernizing established application components, including legacy or platform-based functionality.
• Experience with SQL, data modeling, migrations, backend data troubleshooting, or data-driven application features.
• Working knowledge of Azure services, PowerShell, monitoring tools, or DevOps practices.
• Experience in a SaaS, regulated, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or GxP environment.
• Microsoft Azure or developer certification, or willingness to pursue one.

How You Work

• Strong interpersonal and time-management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable working through ambiguity and balancing technical detail with product, quality, and customer needs.
• Curious, practical, and proactive when learning new technologies or investigating complex issues.
• Quality-minded, with attention to maintainability, reliability, and long-term product value.
• Comfortable working in a smaller-company environment where team members are adaptable, take ownership beyond narrowly defined responsibilities, and help shape practical ways of working.
• Written and spoken fluency in English and French is essential (other languages are an asset).

Benefits

• Competitive compensation recognizes the experience and impact you bring to the team.
• Career development support through growth opportunities, coaching, ongoing learning, and an annual training stipend.
• A smaller-company environment where your work is visible, your perspective matters, and your contributions can directly influence how the product and engineering practices evolve.
• A hybrid work environment that supports flexibility, collaboration, and work-life balance, with regular weekly presence at our office in the Old Port of Montreal.
• Temporary work-from-abroad flexibility for up to six weeks per year, subject to role expectations, collaboration needs, and the ability to perform your duties effectively.
• Healthcare benefits to support your well-being and peace of mind.
• Paid time off starting at three weeks per year, with additional flexibility available over time at your manager’s discretion based on performance, contribution, and business needs.

Next Steps

At Montrium, different perspectives and experiences help us build technology that supports meaningful work in life sciences. If you want your work to contribute to that mission, we invite you to apply.