Principal Software Engineer
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$ 238000 - 322000
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Job Description
About Candid
At Candid Health were on a mission to revolutionize healthcare by solving one of its most complex and costly problems: the billing and revenue cycle management (RCM) process. The healthcare system has long been burdened by slow inefficient workflows that waste valuable resources leaving providers with less time and money to focus on patient care. With our cuttingedge revenue cycle automation platform we are transforming this space through an intelligent datadriven approach that simplifies billing enhances claims processing and eliminates administrative waste.
The Role
As a Principal Engineer at Candid Health youll play a pivotal role in our mission to revolutionize healthcare billing by guiding the technical direction of the company. As one of our most senior engineering leaders at Candid the ideal candidate needs to have a blend of excellent technical judgment and deep engineering knowledge (in terms of both breadth and depth); were looking for an architect and handson builder who knows how to build hard things at scale and deliver massive business impact by finding the simplest solutions to our most challenging business problems.
The right candidate is also a visionary and business leader. Our archetype for a Principal Engineer at Candid is someone who understands the domain and technology so well that they can identify blind spots and therefore see huge business opportunities that others either havent noticed or think are too difficult to achieve. Youll be asked to dive deep into a highly complex & nuanced problem space (medical billing) venture beyond whats conventionally been done and think big about how we can pioneer new approaches to improve & reinvent old systems with the customer constantly top of mind.
Last but certainly not least a core function of your role will be to mentor develop and grow the team around you. Although this isnt a people manager position per se you will be looked up to as a technical leader educator evangelist role model and engineering culturesetter. You should inspire and empower the team to do their best work: finding scalable ways to share your knowledge and expertise across the organization helping to clear obstacles that hinder developer productivity and broadly maximizing the impact of our technical teams by accelerating engineering velocity and improving the quality of our eng team.
What Youll Do
Shape Technical Direction & Business Goals: Influence technical vision and architecture of the product. Act as a technical advisor to executive leadership and crossfunctional teams influencing business strategy and product roadmap. Drive longterm business goals ensuring that we strive for excellence and set ambitious goals while staying attuned to the reality of technical constraints. Balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.
Lead Architecture & Technical : Functionally decompose highly complex ambiguous problems and address them with the simplest solutions possible. Organize high level business objectives and input from crossfunctional stakeholders into actionable project plans and roadmaps that are properly resourced.
Innovate: Identify new opportunities & untapped product areas that lead to significant business impact and/or customer outcomes. Stay up to date with the latest advancements in technology evaluate and identify any emerging technologies or tools that could enhance our product and/or drive ROI.
Scale & Optimize Core Systems: Build robust systems with a clear longterm vision in mind ensuring that our design and architecture is extensible reliable performant scalable and secure. You will work closely with leadership and crossfunctional teams to tackle the most challenging technical problems optimizing our platforms performance and ensuring scalability and reliability across large volumes of complex healthcare data.
Mentor and Develop Engineering Talent: Assist in the career development of others. Help guide mentor and develop the next generation of software engineers on advanced technical issues. Youll share your expertise improve engineering processes and foster a culture of learning and excellence.
Who You Are
Bachelors or Masters of Science in Computer Science Computer Engineering Math or other similar degree.
Technical qualifications:
12 years of experience building software of significant scale and complexity
You have achieved functional mastery of software development systems design/architecture and coding
Deep understanding of datadriven solutions and distributed systems architecture
You have excellent technical vision; you know the right architecture and patterns to build something of enduring value and scale
Leadership qualifications:
You have a track record of success and can provide specific examples of driving major business outcomes end to end: e.g. you personally identified a business problem or opportunity came up with a technical solution to it influenced leadership to prioritize the project and drove that project through implementation to completion
You make the right tradeoffs when considering project scope which corners are worth cutting and which are not.
Behavioral qualifications:
You know how to manage ambiguity and have demonstrated experience delivering results when presented with highly ambiguous business challenges
You have a customerfirst and learners mindset and value teaching others
Youre a clear and concise communicator; you enjoy the challenge of explaining complicated ideas in simple terms both inperson and in writing.
You strive for operational excellence
Experience with the technologies we currently use is a plus but by no means required: Google Cloud Platform BigQuery PostgreSQL Metabase Terraform Python.
Pay Transparency
The estimated starting annual base salary range for this position is $238000 to $322000 USD. The listed range is a guideline from Pave data and the actual base salary may be modified based on factors including jobrelated skills experience/qualifications interview performance market data etc. Total compensation for this position may also include equity sales incentives (for sales roles) and employee benefits. Given Candid Healths funding and size we heavily value the potential upside from equity in our compensation package. Further note that Candid Health has minimal hierarchy and titles but has broad ranges of experience represented within roles.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
