Who We Are
Imagine Pediatrics is a tech enabled, pediatrician led medical group reimagining care for children with special health care needs. We deliver 24/7 virtual first and in home medical, behavioral, and social care, working alongside families, providers, and health plans to break down barriers to quality care. We do not replace existing care teams; we enhance them, providing an extra layer of support with compassion, creativity, and an unwavering commitment to children with medical complexity.
What You'll Do
As Principal Software Engineer with Imagine Pediatrics, you will shape technical strategy across engineering, serving as a trusted technical advisor to engineering leadership. You will operate cross-team, explore early-stage ideas before they’re resourced, and enable teams to raise the bar on how we build our digital product suite for our clinical team and our members. You will report to a Director-level or above engineering leader. You will:
- 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
About You
- 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
- Experience delivering mobile, digital products to the Apple and Google Play app store; experience developing in React Native is a plus
- 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
What We Offer (Benefits + Perks)
The role offers a base salary range of $200,000 - $220,000 in addition to an annual bonus incentive, competitive company benefits package, and eligibility to participate in an employee equity purchase program (as applicable). When determining compensation, we analyze and carefully consider several factors including job-related knowledge, skills and experience. These considerations may cause your compensation to vary.
We provide these additional benefits and perks:
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA; Company-funded HSA
- 401(k) with 4% match, vested 100% from day one
- Employer-paid short and long-term disability
- Life insurance at 1x annual salary
- 20 days PTO + 10 Company Holidays & 2 Floating Holidays
- Paid new parent leave
- Additional benefits to be detailed in offer
What We Live By
We’re guided by our five core values:
Our Values:
- Children First. We put the best interests of children above all. We know that the right decision is always the one that creates more safe days at home for the children we serve today and in the future.
- Earn Trust. We listen first, speak second. We build lasting relationships by creating shared understanding and consistently following through on our commitments.
- Innovate Today. We believe that small improvements lead to big impact. We stay curious by asking questions and leveraging new ideas to learn and scale.
- Embrace Humanity. We lead with empathy and authenticity, presuming competence and good intentions. When we stumble, we use the opportunity to grow and understand how we can improve.
- One Team, Diverse Perspectives. We actively seek a range of viewpoints to achieve better outcomes. Even when we see things differently, we stay aligned on our shared mission and support one another to move forward — together.
We Value Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
We believe that creating a world where every child with complex medical conditions gets the care and support, they deserve requires a diverse team with diverse perspectives. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer. People seeking employment at Imagine Pediatrics are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, or characteristics (or those of a family member), pregnancy or other status protected by applicable law.
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