Principal Software Engineer

Overview

We are seeking a software engineering leader passionate about creating next-generation healthcare software that will improve the lives of patients, clinicians, and caregivers. The role involves leading a team through early product development while contributing code and continuing to grow technical skills.

The ideal candidate has full stack experience building SaaS and/or Cloud Native software for regulated industries. The Principal Software Engineer will bring deep expertise in one or more technologies including React, Type Script, Go, Ent, gRPC, Twirp, and AWS technologies such as Event Bridge and Aurora. Mentoring and sharing knowledge with 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 to build a high quality, consumer-oriented product from the ground up.

• 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 with product owners and designers to understand user needs and translate wireframes and 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 ensure consistency in key areas like architecture.
• Learn and use Go and other back-end languages, along with frameworks like gRPC/Twirp, Ent, and various AWS technologies to produce, modify, and maintain APIs, microservices, event streams/queues, and related components.
• Write automated tests for all code and apply Behavior Driven Development practices.
• Write infrastructure as code using Serverless Framework.
• Perform code reviews and enhance the team’s code review practices as needed.
• Provide expertise in Web, API, database, and cloud technologies and frameworks, including React, Type Script, Go, gRPC, Twirp, Ent, Serverless Framework, and AWS technologies like Event Bridge and Aurora.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and subject matter expertise to other team members.
• Lead the creation of technical documentation describing architecture decisions.
• Identify and evaluate new technologies and frameworks to add to the stack.
• Support and implement the latest standards in securing data to meet HIPAA 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 of professional experience developing Cloud Native applications/products on AWS, Azure, or GCP (AWS preferred) OR 2+ years of professional experience with Go/Golang OR 2+ years of professional experience with React + Type Script.
• 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, Git Hub, Git Lab).

• 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., Event Bridge).
• Experience with gRPC/Twirp.
• AWS certification(s).

$157,250-$212,750

This salary range is offered with the understanding that final compensation is based on a number of factors including geography and experience. Tendo also offers an equity package, annual bonuses, and benefits.

For full-time employees, Tendo offers 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, and an employee wellness program (“Breathe”).

Tendo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances.