Principal Software Development Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Work on applications and products that are on the forefront of technology.
• Partner with application owners, business partners, and peer groups regarding technical solutions that meet business requirements.
• Analyze and contribute to project and business requirements based on product team milestones and priorities.
• Plan, prioritize, and perform assigned tasks within deadlines as a technologist working with other engineers.
• Be responsible for end-to-end application development and delivery, including production deployment, operationalization, and observability.
• Develop solutions that are well engineered, flexible, resilient, operable, maintainable, and can be delivered on schedule.
• Develop applications/web services and cloud-native apps using Spring Boot, GCP, REST API, and other tech stacks.
• Work with technologies that connect modern apps with legacy infrastructure, leveraging streaming platforms like Apache Kafka.
• Specialize in using GraphQL schema and APIs, troubleshooting and resolving performance, scalability, and responsiveness issues.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML (including GenAI) and automating processes.
• Build and deploy services using GitHub, CircleCI, Harness as part of CI/CD processes in cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Monitor application health and KPIs, support triage of production issues as needed.
• Implement and advocate for security best practices.
• Apply industry technology best practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software development experience.
• 5+ years of backend technology experience, such as Java, Spring Boot, NodeJS, Kafka.
• 5+ years of database experience including relational databases like Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and non-relational databases like MongoDB.
• 5+ years of experience in architecting, designing, and delivering scalable microservices-based applications.
• 5+ years partnering with architecture, product, and program management teams to influence product development decisions.
• 5+ years of experience working on projects using mature CI/CD practices, source control such as git, and automated testing frameworks like JBehave, Cucumber.
• 4+ years of experience with large public cloud technologies such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• 1+ years of experience with GraphQL schema and APIs, troubleshooting performance, scalability, and responsiveness.

Nice to Have

• Healthcare domain experience.
• Hands-on AI/ML (including GenAI) experience and automation expertise.
• Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong desire to mentor and coach other engineers.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing requirements.
• Strong understanding of observability and telemetry for decision making.
• Proficient understanding of infrastructure architecture design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience).

Benefits & Perks

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
• No-cost programs including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation, weight management, confidential counseling, and financial coaching.
• Benefit solutions addressing diverse needs, including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, tuition assistance, retiree medical access, and more.