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Senior Platform Engineer (PHP)

AT ShiftKey
ShiftKey

Senior Platform Engineer (PHP)

Remote

About ShiftKey

ShiftKey is a platform that is disrupting the way healthcare facilities find licensed and certified professionals to fill available shifts. Leveraging marketplace dynamics and deep industry knowledge, the company is playing a vital role in mitigating America's healthcare staffing shortages, enabling direct connections between facilities and healthcare professionals. By offering the opportunity to work as much or as little as they choose and putting the power back into the hands of healthcare workers, ShiftKey is bringing more licensed professionals back into the workforce, a solution that is solving a major crisis in healthcare. For more information, visit www.ShiftKey.com.

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The role

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain cloud-based applications, ensuring platform stability, scalability, and performance. You will apply SRE best practices, optimize code, automate processes, and manage CI/CD pipelines and cloud systems. Leading key platform projects, you'll deliver solutions aligned with company goals and help transition the system from monolithic to microservices architecture while solving complex multi-component system problems.

Where you'll work

To be considered for this position, you must be located in the US. You can choose to work remotely or from our offices in Austin or Dallas.

What you'll be doing

  • Designing and developing cross-team applications, performing coding, debugging, testing, and troubleshooting throughout the application development process.
  • Driving large-scale architectural changes to transition monolithic applications to microservices, ensuring scalability, modularity, and improved fault tolerance across distributed systems.
  • Architecting, developing, and maintaining scalable, reliable, and high-performance cloud infrastructure to support the deployment and operation of applications and services.
  • Proactively identifying opportunities to improve current projects and infrastructure, advocating for and implementing enhancements, introducing new tools and technologies, and promoting best practices in platform development and operations.
  • Implementing infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation to automate provisioning, scaling, and management of cloud resources.

What you'll need

  • A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering with the PHP stack, including Laravel.
  • Extensive experience in designing, programming, and implementing large-scale information systems.
  • Proven track record in transforming monolithic applications into microservices.
  • Ability to evaluate and analyze complex technological issues in depth.
  • Proficiency in cloud infrastructure and services, with strong knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (preferably AWS), and experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Basic understanding of SRE principles, including monitoring, alerting, and automation to improve system resilience, optimize performance, and reduce operational toil.

Perks of working for Shiftkey

  • Inclusive and collaborative work environment
  • Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage
  • Benefits effective as of the first day
  • Progressive PTO & Company-paid holidays with a broad selection of floating holidays to honor employees' diverse needs
  • 100% 401(k) employer match up to 6%
  • Paid parental leave
  • Investment in your wellness: access to mental health support

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Our Commitment to Diversity

ShiftKey is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to embracing diverse and individual perspectives shaping our culture and contributing to the solutions that transform the world. We actively work to create an inclusive environment for employees to thrive.

EEO Statement

ShiftKey does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable law. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. ShiftKey is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with a mental or physical disability, please contact: accommodations@shiftkey.com

Job ID: ShiftKey-a20cdec7-a4db-43e0-ab30-2afcd9b78128
Employment Type: Full Time

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • FSA
    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Pet Insurance
    • Mental Health Benefits
  • Parental Benefits

    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Casual Dress
    • Happy Hours
    • Snacks
    • Some Meals Provided
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Company Equity
    • Performance Bonus
    • Financial Counseling
  • Professional Development

    • Promote From Within
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Leadership Training Program