Principal Software Engineer, Front End Rearchitecture

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

The Principal Frontend Engineer will serve as a senior technical authority shaping the architecture, standards, and long-term direction of frontend engineering across a complex suite of clinical applications. This hybrid role is based in Boston, MA, and blends deep hands‑on technical work with broad cross-team influence — setting the engineering vision, driving alignment across multiple product areas, and elevating the quality and consistency of frontend systems at scale.

The Clinicals Front End Rearchitecture Initiative is an engineering‑led program with a bold and clear goal: replace a fragmented set of frontend architectures across Clinicals applications with a single, modern, React‑based platform that is built to last. Across the current landscape, multiple technologies, patterns, and data access approaches are operating in parallel — creating maintenance overhead, slowing feature delivery, and producing an inconsistent experience for users and developers alike.

This initiative is designed to fundamentally resolve that complexity. A central element of this work is the transition from a home‑grown Data Broker to GraphQL as the standard for frontend data access — creating cleaner, more reliable, and more scalable contracts between frontend and backend systems. Node.js is integral to this architecture, supporting build infrastructure, server‑side rendering, and lightweight middleware layers that serve the broader frontend ecosystem.

The initiative is also establishing a shared component library, testing standards, and architectural conventions that will serve as the foundation for frontend development across Clinicals long into the future.

Architect and lead the design of large‑scale, production‑grade frontend systems using JavaScript, React.js, Type Script, and Node.js, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with organizational engineering strategy. Establish frontend engineering standards, architectural patterns, and component system conventions that are adopted broadly across Clinicals engineering teams. Define and govern the technical approach for integrating frontend applications with backend services through GraphQL and RESTful APIs, ensuring consistency and reliability across data access patterns.

Drive the multi‑year frontend modernization roadmap, including migration strategy, phasing, and technical risk management across the Clinicals platform. Partner with engineering leadership, product management, and design to align technical direction with long‑term product and business objectives. Mentor and technically guide Lead, Senior, and mid‑level engineers — building team capability, shaping engineering culture, and supporting the professional growth of others. Evaluate and integrate AI‑assisted development tooling into the frontend engineering workflow — assessing the suitability of available tools for tasks such as code generation, test automation, and performance analysis — and guide the team in adopting practices that responsibly amplify productivity and quality.

Lead cross‑team technical reviews, design discussions, and architectural decision‑making forums, ensuring diverse perspectives are incorporated and outcomes are well‑documented. Identify and address systemic sources of technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and architectural inconsistencies across the Clinicals frontend codebase. Represent frontend engineering in broader organizational planning, contributing technical insight to prioritization, resource, and platform investment decisions.