Key skills
JVM ecosystem JavaJVM ecosystem ScalaRustDistributed systems designPythonSQLdata processingresilience engineeringObservabilitySystems thinkingFearless code readingEmpathy for usersTesting disciplineComfort with ambiguityJavaScalaAIMLSpark
About this role
Machinify is a leading healthcare intelligence company specializing in delivering value and efficiency to health plan clients. They are seeking a skilled Staff Platform Engineer to enhance developer tooling, improve observability, and drive AI tool adoption across the company while addressing complex Scala systems and redesigning data layers for their ML and AI products.
Responsibilities:
- Dig into inherited Scala systems to find where the real problems are, separate symptoms from causes, and make them scale
- Redesign the data layer our ML and AI products depend on — this is an open, hard problem
- Build out a Rust framework that lets teams ship correct, performant services without reinventing fundamentals
- Improve observability and resilience across the platform so we find problems before our customers do
- Shape developer tooling and engineering standards — your work multiplies everyone else's effectiveness
- Drive AI tool adoption across the company, figuring out what actually helps engineers work better
- Work across the full stack: JVM (Java/Scala), Rust, Python, SQL, and Spark
Requirements:
- Systems thinking. You see how pieces connect. When something breaks, you reason about the whole system, not just the component in front of you
- Fearless code reading. You can drop into a large, unfamiliar codebase, build a mental model, and figure out what needs to change
- Empathy for users. Whether it's a developer using your framework or an operator reading your error messages, you design for the people downstream
- Testing discipline. You test thoroughly not because someone requires it, but because you've shipped enough software to know what happens when you don't
- Comfort with ambiguity. Our hardest problems don't come with specifications. You're energized, not paralyzed, by that
- Proficiency in JVM ecosystem (Java, Scala)
- Python
- SQL and data processing (Spark or similar)
- Distributed systems design
- Observability and resilience engineering
- Experience with Rust highly desired