Principal Software Engineer

Our client is hiring a Principal-level Engineer to drive transformative impact across their platform and product engineering organization. This is a senior technical leadership role for someone who can solve ambiguous, cross-team problems, define architectural standards, and shape technical direction-while still being highly hands-on. You'll lead and execute multi-system technical roadmaps tied to business outcomes, act as a force multiplier for the org, and champion AI-augmented development practices to improve engineering velocity and quality. What You'll Do Technical Leadership

• Architect and design systems affecting large portions of the business with strong focus on scalability, maintainability, and performance

• Own technical design and delivery of complex, multi-system projects and critical infrastructure

• Set direction on code standards, system patterns, and core libraries used across teams

• Drive substantial improvements in platform stability, performance, and scalability Strategic Impact

• Translate strategic objectives into clear technical roadmaps and deliver them end-to-end

• Partner cross-functionally with product and business leaders to influence technical and business decisions

• Anticipate risks in major initiatives and proactively mitigate them

• Facilitate cross-team alignment and drive decisions across groups with competing priorities AI-Augmented Development

• Champion adoption of AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to improve developer velocity

• Establish best practices for AI-assisted code generation, review, and refactoring

• Integrate AI tools into the engineering lifecycle and measure productivity improvements Mentorship & Influence

• Mentor senior engineers and serve as a force multiplier across the organization

• Influence without formal authority and drive adoption of cross-team technical initiatives Tech Stack (Core)

• TypeScript, Python, GraphQL, PostgreSQL

• Cloud infrastructure: AWS preferred

• DevOps/CI/CD + containerization: Docker, Kubernetes

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with strong technical breadth and depth

• Track record delivering complex, high-impact projects spanning multiple teams in enterprise SaaS environments

• Proven ability to define and execute technical vision and strategy at scale

• Expert proficiency in TypeScript, Python, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL

• Experience adopting AI coding assistants and improving team productivity through their use

• Strong full-stack, system design, and cloud fundamentals (AWS preferred)

• Experience with CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and DevOps practices

• Strong program/project leadership: planning, risk mgmt, milestones, rollout, and maintenance

• Excellent communication and ability to influence across stakeholders without formal authority Preferred

• Healthcare technology experience and familiarity with compliance standards (HIPAA / HITRUST)

• Track record building and deploying user-facing AI products, or deploying/integrating AI/ML models

• Domain familiarity with medical billing, healthcare administration, or clinical workflows

• Open source contributions or technical publications

Our client is a venture-backed, Series B healthtech company based in NYC focused on reducing improper payments and administrative waste in U.S. healthcare. They operate as a claims operations partner for health plans, combining expert clinicians with transparent AI to deliver deeper insights, smarter automation, and better outcomes across the claims lifecycle-ultimately helping drive down costs for plans, providers, and patients.