Senior Principal Software Engineer

About This Role

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 lead a team through early stages of product development, contribute code, and grow their own skill set.

The ideal candidate has full stack experience building SaaS and/or Cloud Native software for a regulated industry and deep expertise in one or more technologies including distributed microservice architecture, Go, Ent, gRPC, Twirp, and AWS technologies like Event Bridge and Aurora. Knowledge sharing and mentoring will be key.

The Senior 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.

Tendo has hubs in San Francisco, CA;
San Diego, CA;
Salt Lake City, UT;
Chicago, IL;
Nashville, TN; and Philadelphia, PA. Candidates may be located in any one of these hub locations.

• Translate abstract concepts into tangible tooling solutions that enhance the organization's ability to build customer-facing applications with improved structure and extensibility.
• Lead performance enhancement and optimization efforts to ensure our microservices and applications can support 10K+ users.
• 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 more than one service area.
• Collaborate closely with product owners and designers to understand user needs and translate wireframes and other requirements into technical requirements and detailed architecture.
• Maintain relationships with other teams to help ensure consistency in 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 the team’s code review practices as needed.
• Provide expertise in Web, API, database, and/or cloud technologies and frameworks, including React, Type Script, Go, gRPC, Twirp, Ent, Serverless Framework, and/or AWS technologies like Event Bridge 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.

• Bachelor's degree (BS/BA) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar major OR equivalent professional experience or software development certification (including bootcamp).
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 5+ years in a team lead role, using Agile practices/processes.
• 5+ years professional experience developing Cloud Native applications/products on AWS, Azure, or GCP (AWS preferred) OR 5+ years professional experience with Go/Golang OR 5+ years 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.
• Experience with gRPC/Twirp.
• AWS certification(s).

Base salary range: $170,000 – $230,000. (Salary is adjusted for geography and experience. Equity, annual bonuses, and benefits…