Principal Software Engineer

Imagine Pediatrics is a tech-enabled, pediatrician-led medical group reimagining care for children with special health care needs through virtual-first and in-home medical, behavioral, and social care. The Principal Software Engineer will shape organization-wide technical strategy and architecture, advise engineering leadership, and guide complex digital product initiatives. The role also involves mentoring engineers, driving AI adoption and cross-functional collaboration, and supporting scalable, reliable systems.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the solutioning, planning, and execution of long-term technical strategy, translating business and clinical goals into a technical vision for the organization
• Define architectural standards and drive long-term architectural strategy across the organization
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to engineering leadership and executives, shaping strategy and presenting recommendations to VPs and the CTO
• Explore early-stage ideas and proofs of concept to de-risk future initiatives before they are staffed or scoped
• Coach and support the design and development of complex systems and products used across teams, and mentor senior and staff+ engineers
• Drive tech-wide collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and craftsmanship practices, modeling strong inter-team collaboration across the organization
• Drive innovation in your technical domain and ensure the successful delivery of complex, cross-org projects with company-wide impact
• Championing AI adoption across engineering and products
• Advocate for engineers to leadership while aligning technical decisions with business priorities
• Participate in an on-call rotation, providing senior technical support for production incidents across systems
• Be an effective communicator, translating complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders, including clinical, product, and business leaders
• Partner cross-functionally with product, clinical, and business stakeholders to understand goals and translate them into technical architecture and requirements
• Have a data-driven, iterative approach to building products, and estimate technical scope and timelines for large, cross-team initiatives
• Produce technical solutions that satisfy business requirements with a focus on scalability, stability, efficiency, maintainability and extensibility, using modern & stable technologies
• Shape the organization's learning culture and long-term engineering process strategy, and demonstrate executive-level composure in high-stakes, ambiguous situations

Requirements:

• A visionary technologist with deep experience in systems, architecture, and design; a systems thinker who specializes in solving highly technical and complex problems
• A track record of setting technical strategy and driving alignment across multiple engineering teams
• Experience defining architectural standards and mentoring engineers
• Deep understanding and experience with front end applications, APIs, and back-end services
• Strong hands-on experience with React
• Strong understanding of all layers of a Web and Mobile solution
• Experience using AI as a transformative technology
• Experience hosting application services on AWS
• Experience in healthcare or another highly regulated industry
• Strong collaboration and coaching skills, with demonstrated success developing other engineers
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical ideas for non-technical audiences, including executive stakeholders
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, exploring early-stage ideas without well-defined requirements
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation
• Experience working in a fast-paced, hypergrowth, collaborative environment
• Experience delivering mobile, digital products to the Apple and Google Play app store; experience developing in React Native is a plus