Principal Software Engineer

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Job Summary:

Candid Health is on a mission to revolutionize healthcare by improving the billing and revenue cycle management process. As a Principal Engineer, you will guide the technical direction of the company, mentor engineering talent, and innovate solutions to complex healthcare challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Shape Technical Direction & Business Goals: Influence technical vision and architecture of the product. Act as a technical advisor to executive leadership and cross-functional teams, influencing business strategy and product roadmap. Drive long-term business goals, ensuring that we strive for excellence and set ambitious goals while staying attuned to the reality of technical constraints. Balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.

• Lead Architecture & Technical Execution: Functionally decompose highly complex, ambiguous problems and address them with the simplest solutions possible. Organize high level business objectives and input from cross-functional stakeholders into actionable project plans and roadmaps that are properly resourced.

• Innovate: Identify new opportunities & untapped product areas that lead to significant business impact and/or customer outcomes. Stay up to date with the latest advancements in technology, evaluate and identify any emerging technologies or tools that could enhance our product and/or drive ROI.

• Scale & Optimize Core Systems: Build robust systems with a clear long-term vision in mind, ensuring that our design and architecture is extensible, reliable, performant, scalable, and secure. You will work closely with leadership and cross-functional teams to tackle the most challenging technical problems, optimizing our platform’s performance and ensuring scalability and reliability across large volumes of complex healthcare data.

• Mentor and Develop Engineering Talent: Assist in the career development of others. Help guide, mentor, and develop the next generation of software engineers on advanced technical issues. You'll share your expertise, improve engineering processes, and foster a culture of learning and excellence.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelors or Masters of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math or other similar degree.

• 12 years of experience building software of significant scale and complexity

• Achieved functional mastery of software development, systems design/architecture, and coding

• Deep understanding of data-driven solutions and distributed systems architecture

• Excellent technical vision; know the right architecture and patterns to build something of enduring value and scale

• Track record of success and can provide specific examples of driving major business outcomes end to end: e.g., personally identified a business problem or opportunity, came up with a technical solution to it, influenced leadership to prioritize the project, and drove that project through implementation to completion

• Ability to make the right trade-offs when considering project scope, which corners are worth cutting, and which are not.

• Ability to manage ambiguity and have demonstrated experience delivering results when presented with highly ambiguous business challenges

• Customer-first and learner’s mindset, and value teaching others

• Clear and concise communicator; enjoy the challenge of explaining complicated ideas in simple terms, both in-person and in writing.

• Strive for operational excellence

Preferred:

• Experience with the technologies we currently use is a plus, but by no means required: Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Metabase, Terraform, Python.

Company:

Candid Health provides an automation platform for healthcare revenue cycle management. Founded in 2019, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage. Candid Health has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.