Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join PointClickCare as a Principal Software Engineer and become a thought leader in shaping the technical future of our large-scale SaaS platform. You will champion technical excellence, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate on projects impacting healthcare. This role requires extensive experience with Java, Spring Boot, and cloud technologies, along with strong leadership and problem-solving skills. You will work on a data-driven product, collaborating with engineers, architects, and product owners. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including a bonus.

Requirements

• Be a team player who builds strong working relationship with peers and stakeholders
• Be a self-starter who prioritizes effectively and delivers despite complexity
• Be a leader who promotes courageous innovative discussion where multiple viewpoints are heard
• Be a software master with proven experience of mentoring others in their craft
• Have extensive experience with multiple technical languages, ecosystems and platforms
• Have experience working in an Agile software development environment
• Have 10 plus years' experience with Java, Spring Boot and writing RESTful API endpoints
• Have cloud experience (Azure or AWS)
• Have experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Have knowledge of relational databases (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Have excellent software testing skills
• Know how to build security into a system and mentor others to do the same
• Have experience with microservices
• Have experience using system and performance monitoring tools (e.g. Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, DataDog)
• Have excellent organizational, critical-thinking and personal leadership skills
• Be eager to learn and share knowledge that drives the team forward
• Be able to lead implementation discussions with other team members
• Be effective at determining the underlying causes of bugs and addressing systemic issues that lead to them
• Have an analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude
• Have a BSc/BA in Computer Science or a related degree

Responsibilities

• Focus on helping several teams through toughest projects on a data-driven product
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, product owners and external teams to deliver software design that meets business and engineering objectives
• Mentor engineering teams in best practices through collaboration, root cause analysis and code reviews
• Unblock teams through implementation and troubleshooting
• Champion high quality software through automation, rigorous test planning and sophisticated monitoring systems
• Promote best practices and learning across the engineering department
• Analyze and debug complex systems
• Participate in backlog refinement and lead design sessions
• Ensure software is up to date with latest technologies
• Identify and advocate for improvements in our systems
• Provide innovative solutions, prototype where needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Have stream processing experience
• Have knowledge of non-relational / NoSQL data stores (e.g. Azure ADLS)
• Have experience with automated testing frameworks (e.g. JBehave, Selenium)
• Have experience with CI/CD pipeline
• Have Linux and IP networking knowledge

Benefits

• $162,900 - $181,000 a year base salary
• Bonus
• Benefits