Senior Software Engineer - Platform
PocketHealth
Software Engineering
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted on Mar 18, 2025
What if you could personally impact the future of healthcare? As part of the PocketHealth team, you will enable hospitals and clinics across North America — and more importantly, empower over 2 million patients — to discover a better healthcare experience.
PocketHealth is a patient-centric platform that enables hospitals and clinics across North America to share imaging records digitally with patients, instantly and securely. Through our platform, we enable patients to be active and engaged participants in their own care, and take control of their care journey. In addition to image sharing, which is the heart of the PocketHealth platform, we’ve grown our core functionality to enable sharing between hospitals and physicians, as well as instant image retrieval and automated importing capability. PocketHealth is a unified image management solution for over 800 hospitals and clinics across North America. We believe that by placing patients at the center of the record release process, data moves more ethically, easily and securely throughout the care journey, and we’re looking for passionate individuals to help make this vision a reality for millions more patients across North America.
As a Senior Software Engineer on our Platform team, you will apply your software engineering expertise towards building the next generation of our foundational infrastructure and core software that enables thousands of hospitals and clinics — and empowers millions of patients — to discover a better healthcare experience. You’ll be joining an experienced, collegial, and supportive team of Engineers eager to learn, teach, and ultimately make a difference.
In this role, you’ll enable the Engineering team’s success and ensure the operational excellence of PocketHealth systems and cloud resources. Your innate curiosity and collaborative nature will inspire you to look for ways to improve workflows through tooling, documentation and outreach. You will own the architecture, design, development, deployment, and operation of the solutions that you develop.
Responsibilities of the Platform team include:
- Design, maintain, and improve code and automation used by the Engineering team
- Operate critical infrastructure, including MySQL, Kubernetes, and Azure services
- Build and maintain CI/CD orchestration
- Evaluate and improve information security posture and regulatory compliance
- Engage with other Engineering teams throughout the SDLC to ensure that infrastructure dependencies are secure, interoperate correctly and scale well
- Overall operational health of PocketHealth through observability and improvement of standards/processes and automation
- Enhance the developer experience by developing high-quality shared code and tooling, and actively communicating best practices
About you:
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
- 4+ years of experience developing and operating cloud-native services on a cloud platform like Azure or AWS
- A collaborative mindset, strong communication skills, and a proven ability to partner with teams across an organization while maintaining a strong sense of ownership
- Ability to deliver solutions for ambiguous or open-ended problems
- Expertise configuring and operating Kubernetes resources
Additionally, you have 4+ of the following:
- Experience developing software in Golang, especially REST cloud-native services
- Maintaining Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
- Use or adoption of observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD systems
- Administering MySQL (or similar database systems) and optimizing queries
- Linux system administration (e.g. interpreting logs, shell scripting, creating cron jobs)
- Knowledge of Azure best practices or experience using Azure
- Knowledge of information security best practices (e.g. OWASP Top 10, permissions management, threat modeling)
- Managing public/private networks and DNS
You can do amazing things at PocketHealth. You can positively impact the healthcare journey for millions of people, while building your career and developing your skills. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. It has been a part of our mission since our founding to empower patients & make healthcare accessible to all, and we know this can only be achieved with a team of diverse perspectives that is representative of the Patient & Provider communities we serve.
PocketPHolk love working here for these reasons and more; working remotely, our competitive salaries and benefits (stock options too!), four weeks of paid time off, unlimited wellness days, extended mental health coverage and beyond - it’s important to us that our PocketPHolk are taken care of in the same way we take care of our Patients & Providers.
If there are ways we can support you through the recruitment process with an accommodation, please let us know by reaching out to DEI@pocket.health. Applications are accepted via posting only.