Lead design and hands-on development of scalable healthcare analytics, ML/AI, and data platform solutions. Architect SaaS cloud services, mentor engineers, align technical strategy with business needs, manage risk, and drive architectural innovation and stakeholder engagement.
HHAeXchange is the leading technology platform for home and community-based care. Founded in 2008, HHAeXchange was born out of an idea to create a fully comprehensive end-to-end homecare solution to help people who are aging or have disabilities thrive in their homes and communities. Our employees are passionate about transforming the healthcare space by building the only homecare ecosystem that fully connects patients, personal care providers, managed care organizations, and states.
The Principal Software Engineer will play a critical role in the design, development, and evolution of our customer-facing analytics, ML, and AI applications and data platforms. As a key leader of our engineering team, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to guide the technical strategy, deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions. You will also mentor junior engineers, provide technical oversight, and ensure the team is aligned with the overall strategic vision.You are responsible for ensuring that all software developed by one or more teams at HHA meets our standards for quality, performance, scalability, availability and security by working alongside team members to develop innovative solutions to customer problems.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This is a fully remote opportunity for candidates located in the EST or CST time zones within the US only.
Essential Job Duties
- Hands-on Development: Contribute directly to the development of key platform features and components as an individual contributor, ensuring alignment with overall project goals.
- Leadership in Design: Lead the end-to-end design and development of advanced healthcare analytics products, ensuring they are insightful, intuitive, scalable, reliable, secure, and high-performing.
- Architect Healthcare Analytics Solutions: Architect and implement modern analytics, ML and AI applications that support mission-critical business decision-making, workflows and customer experiences.
- Team Enablement and Prioritization: Clearly communicate priorities and expectations to the team, ensuring they have the support and resources to complete their work effectively.
- Quality Ownership: Take full ownership of the quality of all team-delivered features, ensuring they meet both functional and non-functional requirements with well-thought-out designs.
- Drive Architectural Innovation: Identify gaps or areas for improvement in existing patterns. Promote a culture of experimentation and innovation by encouraging the exploration of new technologies, tools, and methodologies that can drive competitive advantages.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the primary technical liaison for executive stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment between engineering and business strategies.
- Risk Management: Identify potential technical risks early in the development lifecycle and implement strategies to mitigate them, ensuring that projects remain on track and within scope.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to define project scope, assess feasibility, and translate business needs into robust technical solutions.
- Technical Mentorship: Act as a senior technical resource, providing guidance, mentorship, and leadership to engineering teams, cultivating a culture of innovation, accountability, and excellence.
- Stay Ahead of Industry Trends: Continuously monitor emerging healthcare technologies and trends, recommending cutting-edge solutions to maintain a competitive edge.
Other Job Duties
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor or HHAeXchange leader.
Travel Requirements
- Travel up to 10%, including overnight travel
Required Education, Experience, Certifications and Skills
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or similar field, or a related field, or equivalent significant industry experience.
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering and/or data engineering within a software product company, with a focus on developing insightful, scalable, high-performance analytics applications and systems.
- Extensive experience architecting, building and delivering complex, high-performance SaaS solutions deployed in cloud environments (AWS or similar) using microservices and serverless architectures.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in the healthcare industry, particularly in developing products for healthcare analytics products.
- 5+ years of experience architecting and delivering applications with significant responsibility across both frontend, backend and data platform development.
- Proficient in modern programming languages such as Java, C#, and Python (preferred), with experience in building and maintaining high volume production-grade solutions.
- Solid understanding of database systems and data warehouses: relational (SQL Server, PostgreSQL), NoSQL, Snowflake and Redshift.
- Proven expertise in modern frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue.js, or similar technologies.
- Hands-on experience with data analytics, AI/ML integrations, generative AI, LLMs, agentic workflows, and AI-assisted software development tools.
- Proven leadership skills with experience mentoring and guiding engineering teams, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a track record of delivering innovative, practical solutions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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