Tech Lead – Platform Engineer

As a physician-founded and led organization, ensuring everyone has access to quality healthcare is what inspires us. The magic we’ve created lies in Carbon Health’s custom EHR and the collaboration among clinical teams, engineers, and designers who work side-by-side to deliver innovation like our hands free AI charting tool. That’s why we hire people who genuinely care about patients, solving healthcare challenges, and making a positive impact every day. Join us and help change the future of healthcare for the better.

About the role

We're looking for a Lead Platform Engineer to drive the technical direction of Carbon Health's core platform and foundational services: the backend systems, service-to-service communication, and infrastructure that every product team builds on.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You'll set architectural direction, make pragmatic decisions about reliability and scale, and still write and review code alongside the team.

You'll work in a JVM-based microservices environment on AWS, in a healthcare setting where availability, data integrity, and security directly affect patient care.

What you'll do

• Lead technical work on building and scaling Carbon Health's core platform and foundational services.
• Drive architectural decisions for highly available, scalable backend systems, and document them so the whole team understands the trade-offs.
• Shape how services talk to each other: gRPC contracts and their evolution, deadlines and timeouts, retries with backoff, idempotency, and graceful degradation when a dependency fails.
• Design event-driven and asynchronous workflows that stay consistent under failure, using patterns such as idempotent consumers, dead-letter handling, Saga, and Transactional Outbox.
• Own the platform's infrastructure as code: set Terraform standards and module structure, review infrastructure changes like application code, and keep environments reproducible.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines so teams can ship small changes to production quickly and safely.
• Define service-level objectives with the team and make services observable through metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing, and actionable alerting.
• Lead incident response and blameless post-mortems, and turn their findings into lasting reliability improvements.
• Guide data design across relational databases, caches, and search stores, keeping performance predictable as data grows.
• Make security and compliance part of the platform: access control, encryption, secrets management, and audit trails for sensitive healthcare data.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and pairing, and provide technical leadership across backend and frontend domains.
• Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and fast, reliable delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating backend or distributed systems in production.
• 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Strong experience with microservice architectures on AWS.
• Proficiency in at least one strongly typed JVM language, preferably Kotlin, Scala, or Java.
• Hands-on experience with gRPC or a similar RPC framework, including contract design, timeouts, retries, and failure handling between services.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and message queues, and with the delivery and consistency challenges that come with them.
• Solid experience with relational databases (schema design, indexing, query performance), plus caching and search data stores.
• Hands-on experience managing infrastructure with Terraform.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience running services in production: observability, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Ability to work as an independent technical leader, designing and delivering new capabilities with a distributed team.
• Professional working proficiency in English, both written and verbal.
  
  Qualifications
• Experience in healthcare technology or other highly regulated industries.
• Experience with healthcare data standards such as HL7 or FHIR.
• Experience with resilience patterns such as circuit breakers, bulkheads, and rate limiting.
• Experience with stream processing or change data capture.
• Experience with containers and container orchestration.
• Experience reducing cloud costs or improving network and security posture at the platform level.
• A strong interest in using AI efficiently and responsibly in software development and engineering workflows.

What we offer

• Remote-first, full-time, permanent employment in Türkiye.
• Salary paid in USD, net.
• Payroll employment with the benefits of a permanent position.
• Access to our office at ODTÜ Teknokent, Ankara, with regular visits according to planned schedules.
• 100% private health insurance coverage for the employee.
• 50% private health insurance coverage for eligible family members, if you choose to include them.
• Floating vacation days: when a public holiday falls on a weekend, you can take the corresponding day off on a weekday of your choice, subject to applicable policies.
• The opportunity to shape the foundations of meaningful healthcare technology products with a collaborative engineering team.
• A culture that values ownership, continuous learning, and delivering high-quality software.

Important

This is a full-time, permanent payroll position in Türkiye. Candidates must have the right to work in Türkiye.