Senior Platform Engineer

Chorus

$170K — $190K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of engineering experience, particularly in platform or internal tools development.
  • Deep experience in Node.js and NestJS.
  • Strong skills in PostgreSQL, especially in data modeling.
  • Experience with React in platform UI contexts.
  • Excellent cross-functional collaboration abilities.
  • Strong systems thinking with a background in scalable frameworks or SDKs.
  • Product-oriented mindset focused on empowering engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build core platform services emphasizing performance and maintainability.
  • Model complex domains using advanced data architecture principles in PostgreSQL.
  • Create internal tools and APIs to enable scalable customization.
  • Collaborate with product and clinical teams to reflect real-world healthcare needs in the platform.
  • Support front-end teams with reliable APIs and reusable UI elements.
  • Balance short-term deliverables with long-term architectural goals.
  • Align platform tool evolution with internal team needs for improved adoption.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on significant healthcare challenges.
  • Influence the foundation of a platform for numerous applications.
  • Collaborative culture that prioritizes design and velocity.
  • Competitive compensation including equity and benefits.
Full Job Description
Senior Platform Engineer

Location: Hybrid

Team: Platform Engineering

Reports to: Senior Director

Type: Full-time

About the Role

We're building a next-generation Healthcare App Platform - a flexible foundation that enables rapid development of high-quality, customizable healthcare applications. This is not your typical role - we're building the platform that builds the products.

Healthcare apps share a lot of the same DNA - appointments, care plans, status tracking, forms, communication, reporting. The challenge is in allowing for workflow customization without sacrificing developer productivity or runtime performance.

We're looking for Senior Engineers to help define and build the service-oriented architecture that powers this platform, in collaboration with in-house SMEs, product, and design partners.

What You'll Be Doing
  • Designing and building core platform services in Node.js / NestJS, focused on performance, modularity, and long-term maintainability
  • Modeling complex domains in PostgreSQL, using sound data architecture principles (BCNF/3NF) to power customizable healthcare workflows
  • Creating internal tooling, APIs, and libraries that accelerate product teams and enable safe, scalable customization across applications
  • Collaborating across product, design, and clinical teams to shape platform capabilities that directly support real-world healthcare use cases
  • Enabling front-end teams to build high-quality applications by providing reliable, well-documented service interfaces and reusable UI primitives
  • Balancing short-term delivery with long-term vision, making tradeoffs explicit and optimizing for developer velocity, product agility, and platform consistency
  • Driving platform adoption by aligning evolution of internal tools with the needs of product and solution delivery teams

What We're Looking For
  • 8+ years of engineering experience, with a strong background in platform or internal tools development
  • Deep experience with:
    • Node.js + NestJS
    • PostgreSQL (including strong data modeling skills)
    • React (used in the context of platform UI libraries and applications)
  • Strong cross-functional collaborator: You live and breathe platform engineering, and you evangelize the power of a well-built platform.
  • Strong systems thinking: you've built frameworks, SDKs, design systems, or internal platforms that scale
  • A pragmatic, product-oriented mindset - you're focused on empowering other engineers through elegant abstractions
  • Demonstrated product sense: understands user needs (internal teams), avoids overengineering, and builds with a clear value proposition
  • Comfortable building and owning services in a service-oriented architecture
  • The strongest candidates have:
    • Experience in healthcare, workflow engines, permissions/RBAC systems, rules engines, or multi-tenant architectures
    • Experience maintaining a fleet of applications built on a common platform
    • Previous Product Management experience
    • Previous consulting or external customer facing experience

Nice to Have
  • Experience migrating mission-critical systems onto a new architecture
  • Familiarity with Domain Driven Design
  • Previous Python development experience

Why Join Us?
  • Work on important, meaningful problems in healthcare
  • Shape the foundation of a platform that will power dozens (eventually hundreds) of applications
  • Collaborate with a team that values design, pragmatism, and velocity
  • Competitive compensation, equity, and full benefits

Compensation Disclosure
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $170,000 - $190,000 in the Los Angeles market. Actual offers depend on skills, experience, and location, and may include additional components such as performance bonuses, stock options, and benefits.

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