[Hiring] Senior Platform Engineer @Bask Health

Role Description

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer, APIs & Workflow Automation to design, build, and improve the shared services, APIs, and automation infrastructure powering Bask Health's telehealth platform.

• Work on systems connecting patient experiences, clinical workflows, pharmacy operations, merchant tools, and external services.
• Create reliable, reusable infrastructure for engineering teams to build and scale products.
• Hands-on senior engineering role focused on solving complex integration challenges and designing architecture.
• Collaborate with product engineers, product managers, and operations teams to identify opportunities for automation.
• Independently own major technical initiatives and make sound architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial backend or platform engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, and Node.js.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining production backend services and APIs.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and serverless application development.
• Strong experience with SQL databases, relational data modeling, and database schema design.
• Understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, message queues, and background processing.
• Ability to design workflows with appropriate retries, idempotency, error handling, and recovery mechanisms.
• Strong understanding of software testing, debugging, monitoring, and production reliability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with significant ownership and responsibility.

Requirements

• Experience with AWS Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, or comparable cloud services.
• Experience building third-party integrations, working with webhooks, and designing reliable asynchronous workflows.
• Experience implementing authentication, authorization, API security, and secure data handling.
• Experience improving developer workflows through automation, reusable tooling, or shared engineering practices.
• Familiarity with Git, code reviews, CI/CD, and modern software development practices.
• Ability to use AI-assisted development tools effectively while independently validating generated code for correctness, security, and maintainability.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.

Benefits

• Work with an entrepreneurial, product-focused engineering team.
• High standards for reliability, testing, and software quality.
• Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate development.
• Opportunity to shape the long-term architecture of Bask's backend platform.