Principal Software Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal Software Engineer based in the United States.

• Contribute hands-on to the development of critical platform features and components while ensuring alignment with broader product and engineering objectives.
• Lead the end-to-end architecture, design, and development of advanced healthcare analytics products that are scalable, intuitive, reliable, secure, and high-performing.
• Architect and implement modern analytics, machine learning, and AI applications that support mission-critical business decisions, workflows, and customer experiences.
• Design and evolve cloud-based SaaS solutions using modern architectures, including microservices and serverless approaches.
• Provide technical direction across frontend, backend, and data platform development, ensuring architectural consistency and long-term maintainability.
• Establish and uphold quality standards for team-delivered software, including functional and non-functional requirements related to performance, scalability, availability, and security.
• Identify gaps in existing technical patterns and drive architectural improvements, experimentation, and adoption of technologies that can create meaningful competitive advantages.
• Communicate priorities, technical direction, and expectations clearly while ensuring engineering teams have the resources and support required to execute effectively.
• Serve as a senior technical liaison for executive stakeholders, connecting engineering strategy with broader business and product objectives.
• Identify technical risks early, develop mitigation strategies, and help keep complex initiatives on track and within scope.
• Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to define requirements, assess feasibility, and translate business needs into robust technical solutions.
• Mentor and guide engineering teams, promoting technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Monitor emerging healthcare, analytics, AI, and software engineering trends and recommend technologies or approaches that can strengthen the product and technology strategy.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver innovative solutions to customer problems while maintaining high standards for security, reliability, and performance.
• Travel occasionally, with travel requirements of up to 10%, including potential overnight travel.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent significant industry experience.
• 8+ years of software engineering and/or data engineering experience within a software product organization, with a strong focus on scalable, high-performance analytics applications and systems.
• 5+ years of hands-on healthcare industry experience, particularly developing healthcare analytics products or solutions.
• Extensive experience architecting, building, and delivering complex SaaS solutions in cloud environments such as AWS.
• Strong experience with microservices and serverless architectures.
• 5+ years of experience spanning frontend, backend, and data platform development.
• Proficiency in modern programming languages such as Java, C#, and Python, with experience developing and maintaining high-volume, production-grade systems.
• Strong understanding of relational and non-relational database technologies and data warehouses, including SQL Server, PostgreSQL, NoSQL platforms, Snowflake, and Redshift.
• Proven experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue.js, or comparable technologies.
• Hands-on experience integrating data analytics, AI/ML, generative AI, LLMs, and agentic workflows into software products.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools and an ability to evaluate and adopt emerging technologies thoughtfully.
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience, including mentoring engineers and guiding teams toward high-quality outcomes.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, architectural, and decision-making skills, with a history of delivering practical and innovative solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong stakeholder-management and collaboration skills, particularly when working across engineering, product, and executive teams.
• Ability to work independently in a fully remote environment and effectively manage complex priorities.
• Candidates must be located in the EST or CST time zones within the United States.

• Base salary range of $165,000–$180,000 per year, excluding variable compensation.
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