Principal AI-Driven Platform Architect

About Alaffia & Our Mission

Every year, U.S. health plans lose billions to improper payments and administrative waste. That wasted spending ultimately trickles down across the healthcare ecosystem, driving up costs for plans, providers, and patients alike. We’re here to change that paradigm.

Alaffia is a new kind of claims operations partner for health plans. Using expert clinicians and transparent AI, we deliver deeper insights, smarter automation, and consistently better outcomes across the entire lifecycle of claims. With Alaffia, health plans can cut wasted spending more effectively than ever — and provide their members the most affordable care.

We’re a high-growth, venture-backed Series B healthtech startup based in NYC and are actively scaling our company. Join us in helping to build a healthcare system that works better for everyone

* This position requires current authorization to work in the United States. Unfortunately, we are not in a position to sponsor work visas at this time.

About the Role & What You'll Be Doing

We are seeking an exceptional Principal level Engineer to join our product engineering organization and drive transformative impact across our platform. At these levels, you will be responsible for solving complex technical challenges that span multiple teams, defining architectural standards, and shaping the technical direction of our product engineering organization. You will work on the most critical and ambiguous problems facing our business, translating strategic objectives into coherent technical roadmaps, leading and executing on the technical roadmaps to achieve the business outcome.

You will leverage cutting-edge AI coding tools to optimize development workflows, mentor senior engineers, and serve as a force multiplier for the entire engineering organization.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Design and architect systems that affect large parts of the business, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Own the technical design and delivery of complex projects involving multiple systems or critical infrastructure.
• Make key technical contributions that set direction for how the team writes code, designs systems, and uses core libraries.
• Simplify complex problems, enabling teams to achieve more with less effort.
• Create substantial improvements in stability, performance, and scalability across the platform.

Strategic Impact

• Identify, formalize, and deliver solutions that impact the entire engineering organization
• Work cross-functionally with business and product partners to influence technical and business decisions.
• Set strategic direction for significant portions of the technology stack.
• Anticipate potential problems in major projects and devise effective solutions to mitigate them.
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration, driving decisions among groups with disparate interests.

AI-Augmented Development

• Champion the adoption of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Git Hub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) to accelerate development velocity.
• Establish best practices for leveraging AI assistants in code generation, review, and refactoring.
• Optimize development workflows by integrating AI tools into the engineering lifecycle.
• Measure and demonstrate productivity improvements from AI-augmented development practices.

Mentorship & Influence

• Mentor senior engineers and be a force multiplier for the entire team.
• Provide technical guidance with a proven track record of sound judgement.
• Influence without formal authority, securing cross-team buy-in for technical initiatives.

Key Skills & Qualifications

Code Fluency

• Write highly robust, scalable code that is flexible, reusable, efficient, and adaptable to changing requurements.
• Provide high-quality code review feedback and foster effective, collaborative code review culture.
• Strong awareness of technologies and ecosystems, able to introduce new ideas to solve business and technical problems.
• Proficiency with AI coding tools (Git Hub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, etc.) to accelerate development.
• Responsible for successful project delivery including planning, risk management, design, development, testing, rollout, and maintenance.
• Find ways to simplify application…