Senior Platform Engineer, Platform PMS Migration team (100% remote-friendly within Spain)

The Internal Platform is a pivotal foundation that accelerates product development by providing a reliable, scalable, and self-service ecosystem. It supports the entire software lifecycle and is meticulously tailored to meet the organization’s technological needs and strategic direction. 

The platform enables development teams to operate autonomously in 80% of cases, reducing dependency on the Internal Platform team, and ensuring that compliance, security, and business continuity are integrated across the entire platform - defending general reliability of services, and data integrity.

Overall, a platform engineering team plays a critical role in ensuring a company's technology infrastructure is reliable and scalable.

The Internal Platform team consists of 34 people including 27 individual contributors 2 Staff Engineers, 4 Engineering Managers and Head of Internal Platform. The team is organized in a way to efficiently address Stakeholders' needs.

What are the challenges in the team?

• Add context about PMS

• The complexity of the Docplanner organization: Docplanner is a complex organization with multiple teams working on various products and services. One of the main challenges for the platform engineering team is to understand and integrate the diverse technology stacks used by different teams. 

• Scalability and reliability of systems: As Docplanner grows and expands, the demand for the technology infrastructure also increases. The platform engineering team must ensure that the systems are designed to handle high traffic, are scalable, and secure

Who will you work closely with?

You will work closely with Product Teams to understand their technical requirements and provide them with the necessary tools, services, and infrastructure to support their development efforts. Your insights and expertise will contribute to enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of their workflows.

You will work closely with Practice Management Systems being part of Docplanner Group to introduce the Shared Platform Concept. The goal of the team is to standardize the technology, methodologies, processes and ways of working across with the Internal Platform.

How would you be impacting our mission?

• Drive standardization across multiple PMS Systems

• Optimize system scalability and cost efficiency

• Contribute to the evolution of the Shared Platform Concept

• Discover and Address Platform Drift across acquisitions and the central Docplanner Platform technologies

• Development, monitoring, and maintenance of Kubernetes clusters on several continents.   

• CI / CD development and maintenance.  

• Make sure that all of our services are deployed in a way that makes them highly available.  

• Fixing urgent issues and optimizing performance.  

• Support other team members in their daily work.  

What will help you thrive?

• Vast experience with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes (must-have).   

• You know why and how to use Terraform and popular CI/CD tools.   

• You know about building scalable and secure production HA environments using AWS.   

• You are not afraid of developing tools or scripts in Bash or GO to automate work.   

• You can communicate in English (both spoken and written - min. B2 level).  

• Growth mindset: nobody ticks all those boxes above, but willingness to learn is strongly valued here.

Let’s talk money

• A salary adequate to your experience and skills. The range is broad so that we can accommodate our roles for all levels of experience, but we will show you the career ladder to explain where we see your skills and impact within the company". Your salary will be, now and always, 100% transparent to you;
• Flexible remuneration and benefits system via Flexoh, which includes: restaurant card, transportation card, kindergarten, and training tax savings;
• Share options plan after 6 months of working with us.

True flexibility and work-life balance

• Remote or hybrid work model with our hub in Barcelona;
• Flexible working hours (fully flexible, as in most cases you only have to be on a couple of meetings weekly);
• Summer intensive schedule during July and August (work 7 hours, finish earlier);
• 23 paid holidays, with exchangeable local bank holidays;
• Additional paid holiday on your birthday or work anniversary (you choose what you want to celebrate).

Health comes first 

• Private healthcare plan with Adeslas for you and subsidized for your family (medical and dental);
• Access to hundreds of gyms for a symbolic fee in partnership for you and your family with Wellhub;
• Access to iFeel, a technological platform for mental wellness offering online psychological support and counseling. 

We promote and embrace equal opportunities in our hiring process, and also every day at work. When you apply for our roles you receive equal treatment regardless of age, disabilities, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or parental status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or any other dimension of human difference.  If you require additional support in your recruitment process, we kindly encourage you to let us know. Behind those words you’re reading, there’s a person (hi!) who already helped a candidate by adapting the interviews, and now we’re lucky to have this person with us. So, even if you’ve never asked for it before, may this serve as a sign that, now, you can do so. We can only truly be equal if we adapt to each other.

“We believe all humans, in all their beautiful diversity, should have equal rights, dignity and respect. Period.” Mariusz Gralewski,  CEO