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Principal Software Engineer (remote)

Claritev
Mc Lean, VA Remote Full Time
POSTED ON 11/23/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/8/2026
At Claritev, we pride ourselves on being a dynamic team of innovative professionals. Our purpose is simple - we strive to bend the cost curve in healthcare for all. Our dedication to service excellence extends to all our stakeholders - internal and external - driving us to consistently exceed expectations. We are intentionally bold, we foster innovation, we nurture accountability, we champion diversity, and empower each other to illuminate our collective potential.

Be part of our amazing transformational journey as we optimize the opportunity towards becoming a leading technology, data, and innovation voice in healthcare. Onward and Upward!!!

Job Roles And Responsibilities

  • Helping drive complex technical projects from planning through execution.
  • Experimenting with new technologies and creating prototypes for the development teams.
  • Empowering distributed and remote development teams with framework implementations, knowledge sharing, and sustainable practices.
  • Leading the development and adoption of strategy, frameworks, best practices, and patterns for the software development organization.
  • Nurturing engineers to think with architecture and design best practices in mind, including aspects such as performance, scalability, maintainability, and security.
  • Promoting and driving innovation in technologies, processes, and tools.
  • Collaborate, coordinate, and communicate across disciplines and departments.

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REQUIREMENTS (Education, Experience, And Training)

You are well-versed in the entire software development lifecycle, from concept to launch and continuous improvement. Specifically, you have expertise in:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
  • 8 years of full-stack development experience, including 2 years in a Principal/Lead role.
  • Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, RESTful APIs.
  • Frontend: React.js or Next.js; experience in developing responsive UIs.
  • Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, or OCI for hosting, storage, and serverless architecture.
  • Security: oAuth2, SAML.
  • Architectural Design: Strong foundation in cloud-native, creational, and behavioral patterns.
  • DevOps tools: CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience integrating AI-driven tools like ChatGPT or Gemini for conversational interfaces is a plus.

Compensation

The salary range for this position is $140-150K. Specific offers take into account a candidate’s education, experience and skills, as well as the candidate’s work location and internal equity. This position is also eligible for health insurance, 401k and bonus opportunity.

Benefits

We realize that our employees are instrumental to our success, and we reward them accordingly with very competitive compensation and benefits packages, an incentive bonus program, as well as recognition and awards programs. Our work environment is friendly and supportive, and we offer flexible schedules whenever possible, as well as a wide range of live and web-based professional development and educational programs to prepare you for advancement opportunities.

Your Benefits Will Include

  • Medical, dental and vision coverage with low deductible & copay
  • Life insurance
  • Short and long-term disability
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • 401(k) match
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Generous Paid Time Off - accrued based on years of service
    • WA Candidates: the accrual rate is 4.61 hours every other week for the first two years of tenure before increasing with additional years of service
  • 10 paid company holidays
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible Spending Account
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Sick time benefits - for eligible employees, one hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked, up to a maximum accrual of 40 hours per calendar year, unless the laws of the state in which the employee is located provide for more generous sick time benefits
EEO STATEMENT

Claritev is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable laws and regulations. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you would like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please click here.

APPLICATION DEADLINE

We will generally accept applications for at least 5 calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Salary : $140,000 - $150,000

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