Principal Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Principal Engineer at Vital, a software company that focuses on improving healthcare through AI/ML. The role involves technical leadership, coding, and working with a remote team across New Zealand and eastern Australia.

Requirements

Strong proficiency in Typescript and the AWS ecosystem

Responsibilities

• You have overall responsibility for the technical design and architecture of our engineering stack
• Work with multiple product leads, quality leads, and other executives to develop strategies for launching and measuring success of entire product lines, and team-wide technical initiatives
• Develop, champion, and implement operationalising strategies with other departments to ensure we meet company goals around uptime, reliability, and scalability
• Design, build, maintain and own features and functionality from concept to completion, write test plans, and own the operationalising of features
• Proactively comb our services for bottlenecks, performance issues, bugs and other issues. Lead the investigation, triage, and resolution of issues
• Design and architect solutions for the team. You’ll take the lead on formulating the design as needed. You’ll go out of your way to reduce complexity
• Lead code reviews, and champion code review process changes. Identify and resolve gaps in documentation, team processes, and day-to-day workflow tooling

Benefits

• Every team member at Vital gets to share in our success in the form of stock options
• We’ll provide you with the equipment you’ll need to work remotely or in a shared office space
• Annual L&D budget to support your career development & a stipend for your home office set up!
• Employee Assistance Program to support your wellbeing
• Paid Parental Leave