Senior Software Engineer, Platform

About Medbridge

Join the team shaping the future of healthcare. Medbridge partners with some of the country’s largest healthcare providers to build technology solutions that help patients recover faster while reducing the overall cost of care. As our Development team continues to grow, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering to help strengthen and modernize the Medbridge Platform.

We hire in the following states: AZ, CO, FL, ID, GA, IL, NH, KS, MA, MI, MN, NC, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI.

The Medbridge Platform includes the core systems, infrastructure, tools, and engineering workflows that enable product teams to build, test, deploy, monitor, and operate software safely, reliably, and efficiently. This includes build and deployment systems, databases, testing infrastructure, monitoring and observability systems, developer tooling, and core application platforms.

This is a high-impact role for a strong backend/platform engineer who enjoys improving developer experience, reducing friction for engineering teams, strengthening platform reliability, and helping Medbridge deliver higher-quality software more safely and consistently. Experience with PHP and mature server-side frameworks is especially valuable for candidates who are comfortable improving established production systems thoughtfully, safely, and incrementally.

Why work at Medbridge?

• We are mission driven. At Medbridge, our mission is clear - we want to help everyone move well, feel well, and live well.
• You’ll make an impact here. 300,000+ clinicians use our products daily, impacting millions of patients. In this role, you help create experiences that impact these important leaders.
• Our customers love Medbridge! We work with 9 of the top 10 Private Practice and hospital systems nationwide, and 6 of the top 10 home health organizations. have a nearly 100% client retention rate and are continuing that work in 2026 and beyond.

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.

What You’ll Work On:

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.

Our Values:

Excellence: A job worth doing is a job worth doing RIGHT.

We believe that excellence is never an accident. It’s the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution.We are change-makers who push the boundaries of what is possible, continually reimagining patient care.We realize that our work impacts people’s health and demands that we hold ourselves to the highest possible standards.We know a good thing when we see it; when exceptional talent comes our way, we hire them and help them grow.We understand the value of time, and we give our best effort everyday because we have a day in which to give it.

Fortitude: Our goals are big. Our dedication is bigger.

We embrace ambitious and challenging projects with confidence in our ability to achieve them together.We are courageous as we venture into the unknown.We persevere in the face of difficulties.We do not let perfection be the enemy of progress; we focus on taking the next best step forward.We take ownership of our mistakes and of our successes, and we learn from both.

Service: We work for something more important than ourselves.

We care deeply about our colleagues, customers, and patients, ensuring our work at Medbridge has a lasting impact.We take a multi-disciplinary, data-oriented approach to solving problems.We lead with confidence and humility, embracing a servant-leadership mindset as we support and challenge one another to reach our shared goals.We know that if we do great work, we help people live healthier lives.

Key skills/competency

• Platform Engineering
• Software Development
• CI/CD
• Database Management
• Developer Experience
• System Modernization
• PHP
• Backend Development
• AWS
• SRE