Software Engineer III – Lead PHP

Sightview Software LLC is a healthcare technology company providing intelligent EHR and practice management solutions built exclusively for eye care. We are seeking a Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and delivery of a services-oriented engineering team focused on system integrations and external connectivity.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership: Provide technical direction for the team, guiding architecture, design decisions, and implementation approaches
• Team Leadership & Management: Manage and support a team of engineers, including task alignment, coaching, performance feedback, and day-to-day guidance
• Integration & Services Design: Lead the design of services that enable communication between internal applications and external systems, ensuring clear contracts, reliability, and scalability
• Service Architecture: Define and establish service architecture, patterns, and best practices for integrations and external connectivity
• Delivery Ownership: Ensure work is well-defined, properly scoped, and delivered with high quality and predictability
• System Reliability: Establish and enforce best practices for error handling, retries, monitoring, and fault tolerance across service integrations
• Data Integrity & Contracts: Define and maintain strong data contracts, ensuring accurate, secure, and consistent data exchange between systems
• Code Quality: Set and uphold a high bar for code quality through reviews, standards, and best practices
• Mentorship: Mentor and develop engineers, supporting their technical growth and career progression
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with Product, Engineering, and external stakeholders to align on requirements, dependencies, and delivery timelines
• Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement improvements in engineering practices, tooling, and service architecture

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience in PHP development
• Strong proficiency in PHP and experience with modern PHP frameworks (preferably Laravel)
• Proven experience designing and building services and APIs
• Strong experience with system integrations, including connecting applications to external services or third-party platforms
• Experience designing service-to-service communication patterns (synchronous and asynchronous)
• Solid understanding of data contracts, API design, and data transformation
• Experience with error handling, retries, idempotency, and fault tolerance in distributed systems
• Strong understanding of unit testing and quality practices
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git), CI/CD pipelines, Containerized deployment models (Docker)
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence technical decisions
• Prior experience leading or managing engineers
• Ability to operate with high autonomy and drive outcomes
• Experience with event-driven or message-based architectures
• Experience working with high-volume, transactional systems
• Experience with AWS technologies and hosting (ECS, Aurora, SQS)
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and observability practices
• Experience working in healthcare, SaaS, or regulated environments
• Experience defining or evolving integration standards and patterns
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field