Remote Platform Engineer - APIs & Workflow Automation

Bask Health; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bask Health is seeking a Platform Engineer to build and improve APIs, services, and workflow automation that power our telehealth platform. You will work on backend services and integrations that connect merchant operations, patient experiences, clinical workflows, pharmacy operations, and commerce systems.

This hands-on role emphasizes ownership, reliable code, and automation, collaborating with product engineers to deliver production-ready platform capabilities across multiple applications in

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably backend/platform engineering.
• Experience building and maintaining production backend applications.
• Strong working knowledge of TypeScript or JavaScript.
• Experience developing backend services using Node.js or a comparable server-side framework.
• Experience designing, implementing, or integrating APIs.
• Understanding of REST APIs and common service communication patterns.
• Experience working with SQL databases and relational data.
• Familiarity with asynchronous programming and background processing.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, and API security.
• Experience integrating applications with third-party services.
• Ability to debug backend issues and investigate unexpected system behavior.
• Familiarity with error handling, logging, and production troubleshooting.
• Understanding of software testing and automated testing practices.
• Experience using Git and participating in collaborative code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend APIs and shared platform services.
• Build production applications and services using TypeScript and Node.js.
• Develop APIs that connect Bask's merchant, patient, clinical, pharmacy, and commerce applications.
• Build and improve automated workflows supporting operational and product processes.
• Implement reliable integrations between internal services and third-party systems.
• Develop reusable backend functionality that can support multiple applications.
• Work with SQL databases to design, query, and maintain application data.
• Build asynchronous processing workflows using queues, events, and background jobs.
• Support event-driven integrations between platform components.
• Develop secure, well-documented interfaces for internal application teams.
• Improve error handling, retries, logging, and monitoring for automated processes.
• Investigate and resolve API failures, integration errors, and production issues.
• Collaborate with product engineers to understand platform requirements and integration needs.
• Help improve the reliability and performance of existing backend services.
• Write automated tests for APIs, integrations, and workflow logic.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to maintainable engineering practices.
• Implement appropriate authentication, authorization, and data-access controls.
• Support reliable data exchange between connected systems.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual operational work through automation.
• Contribute to deployment and maintenance of cloud-based services.
• Help improve development tooling and reusable service patterns.
• Work with senior engineers on technical design and architecture decisions.
• Use AI-assisted development tools while validating code quality and correctness.
• Take ownership of assigned features and improvements through deployment and follow-up.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

APIs

SQL

REST

Cloud

Git

Testing

CI/CD

Remote work

Tools

AWS

Serverless

Job description

Bask Health is seeking a Platform Engineer to build and improve APIs, services, and workflow automation that power our telehealth platform. You will work on backend services and integrations that connect merchant operations, patient experiences, clinical workflows, pharmacy operations, and commerce systems.

This hands-on role emphasizes ownership, reliable code, and automation, collaborating with product engineers to deliver production-ready platform capabilities across multiple applications in