Position Summary:

The Principal Software Engineer will serve as the technical lead, hands-on developer and an individual contributor with an architectural and technical design mindset for a core piece of our platform product. This position will be part of a cross-functional, largely autonomous product engineering team, collaborating with other engineers, designers and the product managers to scale our cloud-based web platform. The individual in this position will be required to guide and mentor other less experienced engineers on both their team and across our company. Accountable for the design, architecture, quality, and measurability of the systems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Identify, conceive, and deliver without supervision, with complete latitude for independent judgment.
• Partner with engineering managers, lead engineers, product managers and designers to deeply understand the needs of our users to architect and leverage most effective technical solution to build a product that serves those needs.
• Build infrastructure to handle millions of transactions and secure, sensitive health data.
• Design and architect software capable of reaching millions of users.
• Write modular, secure, and well-tested code.
• Ensure our development environment is best in class by delivering improvements to internal tooling and direct partnership with our product platform teams.
• Articulate a technical vision for a more enlightened way of working and work with multi-functional partners to deliver that vision.
• Mentor less experienced peers and display leadership as and when needed.
• Take product operational responsibility set measurable goals and meet them.
• Manage technical debt, ensure code quality, and participate in code reviews.
• Promote collaboration and best practices such as simplicity, automation, good design patterns, code coverage and reusability.
• Own and maintain existing application platforms as part of the team and look opportunities to improve them.

Education and Experiences:

• BS (or higher, e.g., MS, or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding, or equivalent technical experience.
• 10+ years of work-related industry experience developing high-performance web applications in C#/.NET.
• Experience architecting and developing distributed systems design.
• Experience writing RESTful microservices with a popular web framework.
• Proficiency with relational databases (like MySQL or SQL Server) and performance tuning
• Experience and familiarity with NoSQL technologies such as MongoDB, DocumentDB strongly desired.
• Extensive knowledge of your development stack; for example, with C#, have a comprehensive understanding of the .NET, .NET Core, MVC, WebAPI, IIS etc.
• Solid CS fundamentals with experience across a range of disciplines, with one or more area of deep knowledge and experience
• Consistent track record of developing, shipping, and maintaining large-scale web applications with a user mindset.
• A comprehensive understanding of complex backend architectures and their core pieces, such as service models, protocols, reliability, deployment, and capacity
• Experience working with AWS offerings such as EC2, ALBs, RDS, Beanstalk, API Gateway or with a different cloud provider and similar services.
• Demonstrated experience to understand the tradeoffs to technical design decisions, risk assessment and mitigation activities.
• Experience in analyzing and troubleshooting application issues in a timely fashion.
• Experience working in Agile DevOps/CICD model.
• Proven analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Must have excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• • Experience with specific technologies such as Redis, ElasticSearch, Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).
  • Experience migrating monolithic architecture to micro services architecture.

Nice to have:

• Good working knowledge of message queuing systems and API design.
• Experience as a full stack engineer and knowledge of Front-End languages such as React, Vue, Angular.

Salary Range- $160,000 - $180,000