Principal Software Engineer

About the job Principal Software Engineer

This position is with Blue Health , a leader in tech-enabled healthcare services.

Location & Work Type

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 Lead Software Engineer, you\'ll lead across architecture and hands-on delivery. You\'ll 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 you\'ll 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 you\'ll work with

MERN applications (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js); Python services (e.g., FastAPI / Django / Flask); modern cloud-native tooling, containers, CI / CD, and observability (provider-agnostic : AWS / Azure / GCP).

What we\'re looking for in you

Background & qualifications

Benefits

Learning budget, Life insurance, Theft insurance

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