Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aledade is a public benefit corporation focused on empowering independent primary care and improving value-based healthcare. The Principal Engineer will shape the architecture and technical direction of AI-powered products and platforms, scale systems for millions of users, guide engineering teams, and contribute hands-on to innovative, production-ready solutions.
Responsibilities
- Architect complex systems and make critical technical decisions
- Solve challenging technical problems with innovative solutions
- Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence across teams
- Align technical strategies with business goals through cross-functional collaboration
- Contribute to technical roadmaps and strategic planning
- Evaluate new technologies and lead innovation initiatives
Skills
- BS/BTech (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field required]
- 10+ years of production-level experience as an engineer building highly scalable systems
- 6+ years of experience acting as a trusted technical decision-maker in a team setting, solving for short-term and long-term business value
- 4+ years of experience working with SQL or other database querying languages on large multi-table data sets
- Experience architecting, developing, and deploying large-scale distributed systems at scale
- Experience with cloud technologies, e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP
- Experience building continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) pipelines
- Strong familiarity with server-side web technologies (eg: Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++, Go)
- Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard. Occasional walking and lifting may be required
- 10+ years of engineering experience architecting and scaling reliable backend or platform systems for millions of users
- Proven track record in V0, V1, and V2 architecture and delivery - guiding large teams (50+ engineers) across multiple product areas
- Strong background in architecting or implementing AI-driven features - with the ability to translate AI capabilities into scalable, user-facing products
- Experience designing platform and API ecosystems that serve broad horizontal product spaces
- Deep hands-on expertise with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), event streaming (Kafka), and large-scale database systems
- Expertise in containerization/orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and modern CI/CD pipelines
- Experience engineering systems for scalability, high availability, and security — with a focus on sensitive or regulated data
- Familiarity with database replication, sharding, and other techniques critical to distributed systems performance and resiliency
- Ability to lead and mentor senior engineering talent, shaping architecture decisions and technical direction across multiple teams
- Demonstrated success evaluating and adopting emerging technologies to drive company-wide technical strategies
Benefits
- Flexible work schedules and the ability to work remotely are available for many roles
- Health, dental and vision insurance paid up to 80% for employees, dependents and domestic partners
- Robust time-off plan (21 days of PTO in your first year)
- Two paid volunteer days and 11 paid holidays
- 12 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents
- Six weeks paid sabbatical after six years of service
- Educational Assistant Program and Clinical Employee Reimbursement Program
- 401(k) with up to 4% match
- Stock options
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