Platform Software Engineer

Platform Software Engineer

Full-Time 60000 - 80000 £ / year (est.) No working from home possible
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At a Glance

  • Tasks: Join a dynamic team to tackle complex software challenges in public health.
  • Company: Innovative tech company focused on improving healthcare technology.
  • Benefits: Enjoy 25 days holiday, professional development budget, and fun social events.
  • Other info: Hybrid work model with excellent career growth opportunities.
  • Why this job: Make a real difference in healthcare while working with cutting-edge technologies.
  • Qualifications: Experience in CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and PHP & Laravel is essential.

The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.

The purpose of this role is to solve complex business problems and technical challenges through the design and development of software applications and services.

This role will contribute directly towards exciting technology opportunities in the public health sector; specifically in general practice.

You will be responsible for building and maintaining critical components of our software infrastructure, ensuring high performance, reliability, and security.

This role sits within the platform team.

Responsibilities

  • Work within a small agile team to solve technical challenges, develop new functionality and make non-functional improvements to our platform products and services
  • Contribute towards translating business requirements into technical design and development projects and tasks
  • Contribute in architectural and design discussions
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues
  • Identify and contribute towards developing solutions to improve system performance, scalability, and reliability
  • Adhere to best software engineering practices and principles
  • Collaborate with and unblock other members of the team
  • Through remote and in-person collaboration, work together with all stakeholders to understand and progress projects and tasks
  • Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
  • Load balancing and reverse proxy configuration (HAProxy)
  • Message queue administration (Rabbit MQ)
  • Cloudflare CDN, WAF, and DNS management, including domain registrations
  • Cloud engineering (e. g. GCP, Azure, AWS)
  • Dev Ops & CI/CD
  • CI/CD pipeline development and maintenance
  • Application deployment and release management
  • Developer tooling administration (Git Lab, Packagist, NPM, Dependabot)
  • Dependency management and automated security updates
  • Incident Management & Observability
  • Assist with the diagnosis and assessment of technical issues
  • On-call engineering and incident response
  • Monitoring, alerting, and error tracking (Zabbix, incident. io, Sentry)
  • Application performance tracking and reporting
  • Development
  • Promoting software engineering best practices
  • Participate in code reviews and ensure adherence to coding standards
  • Internal tooling library development and third-party integrations (Sentry, Laravel)
  • Maintenance and support of internal platform tooling
  • Platform service/API improvement & development
  • Our platform and application tech stack
  • Git Lab
  • My SQL
  • Rabbit MQ
  • Redis
  • PHP + Laravel
  • React
  • Electron
  • Puppet (build and deploy)
  • Open SIPS
  • Free SWITCH

Essential experience Required

  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
  • Hands‑on experience with cloud infrastructure
  • Application monitoring, alerting, and incident response (any major tooling)
  • Familiarity with load balancing and message queue technologies
  • Maintaining and contributing to shared code libraries and internal tooling
  • Investigating and resolving customer‑facing technical issues
  • Working within change control and release management processes
  • Good working experience with PHP & Laravel
  • Several years’ experience in industry
  • Desired experience
  • Dev Ops tooling
  • Healthcare industry experience (NHS)
  • Cloud engineering

Benefits

  • 25 Days Holiday plus an additional day for your birthday/equivalent
  • Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Winter Flu Jabs
  • Free On‑Site Parking
  • Learning and development budget with Professional Qualification Support
  • £1,000 employee referral bonus
  • Social benefits (paid social events)
  • Buy Holiday Scheme
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Discount on Health Insurance
  • Annual Salary Review
  • Enhanced Company Sick Pay
  • Monthly pizza in the office (Hybrid employees) / coffee voucher (Remote employees)
  • SCG mobile benefit

SCG is proud to be an equal opportunities employer.

We welcome applications from all parts of the community and are committed to upholding the principles of the Equality Act 2010.

We are committed to supporting applicants with disabilities. We will endeavour to make necessary adjustments to ensure a fair and accessible recruitment process.

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Contact Details:

X-on Health Ltd Recruitment Team

We think you need these skills to ace Platform Software Engineer

Software Development
Agile Methodologies
Technical Problem Solving
Cloud Infrastructure (GCP, Azure, AWS)
CI/CD Pipeline Development
Application Monitoring and Incident Response
Load Balancing