Principal Software Engineer
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Job Description
This position is with Blue Health a leader in tech-enabled healthcare services.
Job Description
Location & Work Type
Onsite 28-M Quaid - E- Azam Industrial Estate Lahore
Team: Product & Engineering
Employment: Full-time
About Blue Health
Blue Health builds healthcare technology and complementary products that make a real difference. We move fast learn continuously and care deeply about the people who use our products and the teammates who build them.
The Opportunity
As a Principal Software Engineer youll lead across architecture and hands-on delivery. Youll design and evolve scalable systems set engineering standards mentor engineers and partner with Product to shape technical roadmaps for our health tech products and other applications. You balance pragmatic execution with long-term quality security and performance.
What youll do
Own system and solution architecture for key domains; lead design reviews and write clear RFCs/architecture docs.
Build and evolve services APIs and integrations; drive performance reliability and cost efficiency.
Champion security-by-design and privacy best practices; align with compliance needs.
Raise the bar on code quality testing strategy CI/CD observability incident response and postmortems.
Mentor and unblock engineers; model high-quality design and implementation practices.
Collaborate with Product/Design to shape roadmaps break down work and make sound tradeoffs.
Lead technical investigations run POCs and evaluate tools/vendors to de-risk decisions.
Contribute hands-on to critical paths while enabling teams with strong patterns and abstractions.
Stack youll work with
MERN applications (MongoDB Express React )
Python services (e.g. FastAPI/Django/Flask)
Modern cloud-native tooling containers CI/CD and observability
(provider-agnostic: AWS/Azure/GCP)
What were looking for in you
Ability to Lead Youve successfully led teams and delivered products; you can manage stakeholders and expectations.
Culture Fit Positive attitude and a steady constructive influence on the team.
Effective Communication You actively listen synthesize and articulate
decisions and tradeoffs clearly.
Ability to Build Solutions You solve complex system-level problems and
contribute to implementation.
Ability to Handle Uncertainty You navigate unclear requirements and guide the
team to shared domain and technical understanding.
Flexibility Not tied to a single framework; eager to learn and adopt the best tool for the job.
Genuine excitement for software development and craftsmanship.
Background & qualifications
BS/MS in Computer Science or related field.
4-5 years of industry experience building and operating production systems with demonstrated technical leadership.
Experience conducting code reviews and performance evaluations is required.
Strong hands-on web development and system design experience; ideally full stack with the ability to tackle system design problems.
Proficiency with MERN and/or Python-based services; experience across
multiple stacks is a big plus.
Indepth understanding of source control build pipelines and release
management (GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps/TFS).
Cloud-native experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) containers (Docker) orchestration (Kubernetes or similar) and infrastructure-as-code.
Strong testing strategies CI/CD pipelines and production observability (logs metrics traces).
Experience building products from the ground up and at scale is a big plus.
Healthcare exposure (FHIR/HL7 EHR/EMR integrations) and HIPAA/SOC 2 experience preferred.
Benefits
Learning budget Life insurance Theft insurance
Employment Type
Full Time
