Senior Software Engineer, Platform

MedBridge is a company focused on transforming healthcare through technology solutions that enhance patient recovery and reduce care costs. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Platform Engineering to strengthen and modernize their core systems and engineering workflows, contributing to a platform that supports product teams in building and operating software reliably and efficiently.

Responsibilities:

• Improve the Medbridge Platform that product engineering teams use to build, test, deploy, and operate software
• Work on CI/CD pipelines, build systems, deployment workflows, and release automation
• Improve database reliability, performance, upgrade readiness, and operational practices
• Help strengthen our testing platform so teams can validate changes more quickly and confidently
• Improve monitoring, alerting, observability, and production readiness
• Reduce developer friction by improving local development, tooling, documentation, and shared engineering workflows
• Work with the Medbridge PHP monolith as part of the broader platform, including modernization, maintainability, reliability, and testing improvements
• Partner with product engineering teams to understand pain points and turn them into platform improvements
• Lead or contribute to cross-team technical initiatives
• Break down complex technical problems into clear plans and incremental delivery steps
• Create reusable patterns, documentation, and standards that help teams move faster
• Mentor engineers and help raise the technical bar across the organization
• Balance modernization, reliability, developer experience, and product delivery needs
• Depending on team priorities, you may contribute to initiatives across platform reliability, developer experience, and engineering enablement, including: Improving CI/CD pipelines, deployment reliability, rollback processes, and build system modernization
• Enhancing developer experience through shared tooling, local development environment improvements, and engineering standards
• Strengthening testing infrastructure, automation workflows, monitoring, alerting, and observability practices
• Supporting database upgrades, operational improvements, and production reliability initiatives focused on incident prevention
• Contributing to modernization efforts across legacy systems, including PHP monolith improvements and technical debt reduction
• Partnering cross-functionally to improve platform documentation, scalability, maintainability, and long-term engineering efficiency

Requirements:

• Strong software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems, including backend, platform, infrastructure, developer tooling, or shared engineering systems
• Experience improving CI/CD pipelines, build systems, testing infrastructure, observability, and overall developer experience
• Strong understanding of relational databases (MySQL or similar), including working within large, mature, or complex codebases
• Proven ability to safely improve and modernize existing systems without unnecessary rewrites, while writing maintainable and testable code
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and technical planning skills with the ability to break down complex work into clear, executable steps
• Strong communication, collaboration, and ownership mindset with the ability to operate through ambiguity and improve systems relied on across teams
• Experience with PHP, modernizing mature PHP applications, MVC-style frameworks, and/or Go
• Experience with cloud-hosted systems (especially AWS), CI/CD tools, deployment automation, and platform/infrastructure engineering practices
• Experience improving test reliability, automated verification workflows, monitoring, alerting, observability, and incident response
• Experience with database upgrades, performance tuning, and operational database management practices
• Background in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, developer experience, or technical leadership/mentorship roles
• Experience working in healthcare technology, SaaS, or other regulated environments, including familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and validating AI-generated code safely