Staff Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Spain, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Establish the technical vision and target architecture for Docplanner’s patient-centric Marketplace.

• Supervise architecture across search functionalities, listings, doctor profiles, and booking processes.

• Guide the transition from the PHP monolith to the company monorepo utilizing strangler routing, anti-corruption layers, shadow traffic, and phased source-of-truth transitions.

• Migrate domains from slim monolith proxies to natively owned data, business logic, and persistence within the monorepo.

• Transform Marketplace functionalities into reusable, well-defined building blocks for Docplanner products.

• Deliver production Marketplace updates by leading AI coding agents.

• Prototype high-risk migration and integration tasks, establishing proven implementation strategies for teams.

• Drive AI-assisted workflows for legacy code comprehension, contracts, adapters, testing, and ensuring consistency between old and new systems.

• Facilitate the usability of Marketplace functionalities by AI agents.

• Collaborate with Engineering Managers and Product Managers on planning and cross-team initiatives.

• Mentor senior engineers on architecture, system design, and practical decision-making.

• Contribute to Docplanner’s Staff+ community of practice and uphold consistent technical standards.

• Articulate a documented technical direction, expose core functionalities through versioned contracts, reduce the monolith, and promote the adoption of AI-assisted workflows.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven technical leadership across multiple teams.

• Experience in dismantling a large legacy system while handling live traffic.

• Proficient with the strangler pattern, anti-corruption layers, data migration, and dual-write challenges.

• Strong skills in distributed systems and backend architecture.

• Comfortable operating in a polyglot environment.

• Practical experience utilizing AI to expedite software development.

• Experience in directing AI coding agents while ensuring design integrity, correctness, and security.

• Background in mentoring engineers.

• Proficiency in English.

• Bonus: experience in two-sided marketplaces, search and discovery, or booking and scheduling systems.

• Bonus: experience with large-scale monorepos, including build tools, code ownership, and shared platform practices.

• Bonus: experience in exposing product functionalities to AI agents.

• Bonus: background in healthcare or another regulated industry.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible remuneration and benefits system via Flexoh, which includes a restaurant card, transportation card, kindergarten support, and training tax benefits.

• Option for remote or hybrid work, with a hub located in Barcelona.

• Fully flexible working hours.

• Summer intensive schedule during July and August: 7-hour workdays with an earlier finish time.

• 23 paid holidays, with the option to exchange local bank holidays.

• An additional paid holiday for birthdays or work anniversaries.

• Private healthcare plan with Adeslas for the employee and subsidized family coverage, including medical and dental services.

• Access to hundreds of gyms through Wellhub for the employee and their family.

• Access to the iFeel mental wellness platform, offering online psychological support and counseling.

• Free English and Spanish language classes.