Software Engineer (Platform)

X-on Health Ltd; Melton; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 Days Holiday

Cycle to Work Scheme

On-site Parking

Professional Qualification Support

Referral Bonus

Social events

Buy Holiday Scheme

Employee Assistance Program

Health Insurance Discount

Annual Salary Review

Sick Pay Enhancement

Monthly office pizza / remote coffee

Job summary

SCG is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our hybrid Melton team. You will shape and maintain core platform components, ensuring performance, reliability and security across our software stack, including PHP + Laravel, Redis, RabbitMQ, and React-based interfaces.

You will collaborate in an agile setting to translate business needs into technical solutions, contribute to architecture discussions, and drive improvements in deployment pipelines, monitoring, incident response and release processes.

Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure.
• Application monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• 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.

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
• Translate business requirements into technical design and development 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
• Load balancing and reverse proxy configuration (HAProxy)
• Message queue administration (RabbitMQ)
• Cloudflare CDN, WAF, and DNS management
• Cloud engineering (e.g. GCP, Azure, AWS)
• CI/CD pipeline development and maintenance
• Application deployment and release management
• Developer tooling administration (GitLab, Packagist, NPM, Dependabot)
• Dependency management and automated security updates
• 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
• 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

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Incident response

Load balancing

Code libraries maintenance

Customer issue resolution

Release management

PHP Laravel

Tools

GitLab

MySQL

RabbitMQ

Redis

PHP Laravel

React

OpenSIPS

FreeSWITCH

HAProxy

Job description

Location: Melton (Hybrid)

Salary: Up to £50,000 based on experience

Working hours: 09:00 – 17:30

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 (RabbitMQ)
• Cloudflare CDN, WAF, and DNS management, including domain registrations
• Cloud engineering (e.g. GCP, Azure, AWS)

DevOps & CI/CD:

• CI/CD pipeline development and maintenance
• Application deployment and release management
• Developer tooling administration (GitLab, 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:

• GitLab
• MySQL
• RabbitMQ
• Redis
• PHP + Laravel
• React
• Electron
• Puppet (build and deploy)
• OpenSIPS
• FreeSWITCH

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:

• DevOps 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.