Principal Software Engineer

Tendo Systems • Salt Lake City, UT

333d • $131,750 - $178,250

About The Position

We are looking for a software engineering leader who is passionate about creating next-generation healthcare software that will dramatically improve the lives of patients, clinicians, and caregivers. This person will have the opportunity to lead a team through early stages of product development, while contributing some code of their own and continuing to grow their own skill set. The ideal candidate has full stack experience building SaaS and/or Cloud Native software for a regulated industry. Additionally, the Principal Software Engineer will bring deep expertise in one or more technologies including React, TypeScript, Go, Ent, gRPC, Twirp, and/or AWS technologies like EventBridge and Aurora. Sharing knowledge and mentoring members of a growing team will be key. The Principal Software Engineer should enjoy leading in an Agile collaborative environment with product managers, designers, external partners, and other engineers working together to build a high quality, consumer-oriented product from the ground up.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (BS/BA) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar major OR equivalent professional experience or software development certification (including bootcamp).
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years in a team lead role, using Agile practices/processes.
• 2+ years professional experience developing Cloud Native applications/products on AWS, Azure, or GCP (AWS preferred) OR 2+ years professional experience with Go/Golang OR 2+ years professional experience with React + TypeScript.
• Strong ability to communicate development approaches and plans within and across teams.
• Professional experience with modern version control systems (e.g., Git) and tools (e.g., Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab).

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in a startup environment.
• Knowledge of the healthcare industry and HL7 standards like FHIR.
• Experience writing infrastructure as code using Serverless Framework.
• Experience with graph data modeling (i.e., using Ent).
• Experience with event streaming frameworks (i.e., EventBridge).
• Experience with gRPC/Twirp.
• AWS certification(s).

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers responsible for architecting, building, documenting, testing, and debugging a large consumer-facing application with significant daily usage.
• Serve as technical owner and subject matter expert for one or more product areas.
• Collaborate closely with product owners and designers to understand user needs and lead the translation of wireframes and other requirements into technical requirements and detailed architecture.
• Help lead Agile processes including sprint planning, daily standups, demos, and retrospectives.
• Maintain relationships with other teams to help ensure consistency in some key areas like architecture.
• Learn and use Go and potentially other back end languages, along with technologies and frameworks like gRPC/Twirp, Ent, and various AWS technologies, to produce, modify, and maintain APIs, microservices, event streams/queues, and similar.
• Write automated tests for all code and use Behavior Driven Development practices.
• Write infrastructure as code using Serverless Framework.
• Perform code review and enhance team's code review practices as needed.
• Provide expertise in Web, API, database, and/or cloud technologies and frameworks, including React, TypeScript, Go, gRPC, Twirp, Ent, Serverless Framework, and/or AWS technologies like EventBridge and Aurora.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and subject matter expertise to other team members.
• Lead creation of technical documentation describing architecture decisions.
• Identify and evaluate new technologies and frameworks that may need to be added to our stack.
• Support and implement the latest standards in securing data to meet HIPAA requirements.

Benefits

• Full health benefits (medical, dental, and vision)
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Company paid life insurance
• Company paid short-term and long-term disability
• Company equity
• Voluntary benefits
• 401(k)
• Company paid holidays
• Flexible time off
• Employee wellness program ('Breathe')

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees