Key skills
AI-augmented development lifecycle (AI-SDLC)AI coding assistants Claude CodeAI coding assistants GitHub CopilotAI coding assistants CursorAI coding assistants WindsurfTypescriptNode.jsPythonDjangoReactMySQLRESTful API designService-oriented architectureCloud-native technologies GCPCloud-native technologies AWSData pipelinesApache AirflowTypeScriptAIClaudeAirflowAWSGCPRESTfulGitHubSDLCCI/CDCommunicationCustomer Success
About this role
Lumistry is a company that serves over 9,000 pharmacies globally, providing solutions to improve patient care and operational efficiency. They are seeking a skilled Principal Software Engineer to drive technical strategy and lead development on core enterprise products, ensuring compliance and quality in the healthcare industry.
Responsibilities:
- Drive technical alignment across engineering teams, establishing shared patterns, platform standards, and architectural guardrails that scale beyond any single product
- Architect scalable, maintainable solutions, with an eye toward long-term data integrity, security, and performance
- Own end-to-end development, including web applications, backend services, data pipelines, and integrations for a core Lumistry product
- Leverage deep use of AI coding assistants (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, etc.) as a force multiplier across the full development lifecycle and contribute to Lumistry's evolving AI-SDLC practices, helping establish team norms around effective AI tool usage
- Help evaluate and adopt emerging AI engineering tools as the landscape evolves
- Set and uphold engineering standards: code reviews, testing practices, documentation, and CI/CD hygiene, as well as raise the technical floor through mentorship and coaching of other engineers
- Participate actively in architectural discussions and help the team make sound, well-reasoned technical decisions, translating complex product requirements into clear technical plans with realistic estimates
- Collaborate with QE to define test strategies and ensure high-quality releases in our regulated environment and partner with Product, Design, and Customer Success to deliver features and support that matters
- Partner with the security and compliance function to ensure architecture decisions account for HIPAA, SOC 2, and evolving regulatory obligations
- Design and maintain data pipelines supporting clinical workflows, drug databases, and reporting needs
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful tenure in senior or lead roles
- Demonstrated experience with AI-augmented development lifecycle (AI-SDLC) practices
- Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Windsurf) as a core part of your daily development workflow
- Strong technical proficiency and deep, production-grade experience with Typescript/Node.js and Python/Django
- Proficiency with React for building and maintaining frontend features
- Expert-level MySQL skills including schema design, query optimization, indexing strategies, migrations
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design and service-oriented architecture
- Strong communication skills with an ability to articulate technical tradeoffs and choices
- Experience with cloud-native technologies in GCP, AWS, or similar
- Practical experience with data pipelines and workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow or similar
- Experience working within a secure and/or regulated environment (HIPAA, SOC 2, etc)
- Background including pharmacy, healthcare, or health-tech industry is a plus
- Familiarity with healthcare data standards such as NDC codes, RxNorm, SNOMED, or ICD-10