Synthesis Health

Synthesis Health

Sr. Platform Engineer

Vancouver, BC · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$85k-$110kDetected 113 days ago
TypeScriptJavaGoRustC++Distributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewNoSQLPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisBigQueryGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesPlatform EngineeringKafkaComplianceHIPAAHL7/FHIRRadiologyLeadership

About the role

  • Our 100% remote team is dedicated to a common goal - to revolutionize healthcare through innovation, collaboration, and commitment to our core values and behaviors.
  • If you are a builder who thrives on solving complex distributed systems problems, enjoys mentoring others, and wants to make a significant impact on healthcare, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
  • Deep familiarity with healthcare data standards (DICOM, HL7) and compliance regulations (HIPAA) is a significant advantage.

Responsibilities

  • Design and Build Core Platform Services: Design, develop, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure platform components and microservices that are critical to project success and product capabilities.
  • Drive Performance and Reliability: Promote and implement best practices for observability, monitoring, and performance testing.
  • You will analyze and optimize application-level performance for our critical workflows, ensuring they meet strict uptime and speed requirements.
  • Elevate Code Quality: Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code for core platform services. You will set a high standard for code quality and testing within the team by leading design reviews and providing constructive feedback.
  • Lead with Technical Expertise and Mentorship: Formally or informally mentor junior engineers, helping to level up the team through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and hands-on guidance.
  • Create Excellent Documentation: Produce clear, high-quality architectural diagrams and technical documentation for the components you own, contributing to the team's shared knowledge base.
  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable, resilient, and secure platform components and microservices that are critical to project success and product capabilities.
  • Promote and implement best practices for observability, monitoring, and performance testing.
  • You will set a high standard for code quality and testing within the team by leading design reviews and providing constructive feedback.
  • Produce clear, high-quality architectural diagrams and technical documentation for the components you own, contributing to the team's shared knowledge base.

Requirements

  • Experience in Distributed Systems: 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record of designing, building, and operating scalable and high-performance services.
  • Clarity in Communication: You can clearly articulate complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Leadership Through Influence: You have a demonstrated ability to influence your team's technical direction, driving consensus, and elevating the bar for engineering excellence.
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record of designing, building, and operating scalable and high-performance services.

Nice to have

  • Solve Challenging Problems: This is a high-leverage role.
  • You will be working on impactful technical challenges that are critical to the company's success.
  • Clinical service first.
  • Listen, respect, learn.
  • Innovate to excel.
  • The behaviors we look for:

Skills

  • Hands-On Expertise with Modern Tech Stacks: You have practical knowledge of the principles and technologies behind our platform:
  • Microservices, event-driven design, and distributed architectures.
  • Cloud platforms (GCP preferably), with hands-on experience in Docker and Kubernetes (e.g., GKE, Cloud Run).
  • Expertise across relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL/AlloyDB, MongoDB, Redis) and data warehousing (e.g., BigQuery).
  • Real-world experience with Pub/Sub messaging systems (e.g., Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Kafka).
  • Statically typed languages (e.g., TypeScript, Go, C/C++, Java, Rust).
  • Gitflow branching model.
  • Why You Should Join Us
  • Competitive

Compensation

  • Typical salary range for this position is $85,000 - $110,000.
  • However, Synthesis participates in location based hiring and salary ranges can be adjusted based on candidate's residence.

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, "Use as needed" vacation policy, and participation in our employee option program.
  • Compensation and Benefits
  • Synthesis Health
  • Platform Engineer to help build the next generation of our cloud-native healthcare platform.

Company info

  • We're a mission- and values-driven company with tremendous dedication to our customers.
  • We are looking for an experienced Sr.
  • You will focus on improving the scalability, performance, and reliability of our services, enabling our product teams to deliver innovative features to our customers faster and more securely.
  • About the Opportunity
  • This is a high-leverage role.
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