# Principal Engineer - Applications

**Company**: Weave
**Location**: US Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Weave is seeking a Principal Engineer to serve as a technical cornerstone of its Applications Fellowship, responsible for key patient-facing and practice-facing features. As a Principal Engineer, you will own the multi-year technical vision for the applications domain, including core systems for Payments and Scheduling.

Responsibilities:

- Technical Strategy & Architecture: Own the multi-year technical vision for Payments, Scheduling, Forms, Business Experience, and RCM application platforms.

- Cross-Team Problem Solving: Identify and solve company-level technical problems that span organizational boundaries.

- Strategic Technical Leadership: Monitor the industry landscape, anticipate where high-scale customer experience and transactional platforms are heading, and ensure Weave stays ahead of the curve.

- Mentorship & Organizational Capability: Actively mentor Staff and Senior Engineers across the fellowship, developing the next generation of technical leaders.

Requirements:

- 15+ years of software engineering experience with progressive technical leadership scope.

- Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives that delivered measurable business outcomes.

- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, build consensus across organizational boundaries, and translate technical tradeoffs into business terms.

- Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, including building and operating services that handle hundreds of millions of transactions and terabytes of data.

- Proven experience with event streaming and messaging infrastructure (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar) at significant scale.

- Strong background in scalable data stores,both relational (PostgreSQL at scale, Vitess, Spanner) and NoSQL (Bigtable, Redis, etc.).

- Operational experience with cloud-native infrastructure on GCP or AWS, including Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and highly available system design.

- Solid backend engineering foundation (Go preferred; Python, Java, or C# acceptable).

Nice to Have:

- Background in compliance-heavy environments (healthcare, fintech) with experience navigating regulatory requirements in technical design.

- Experience shaping AI/ML infrastructure or integrating AI capabilities into production systems.

- History of external technical leadership: open source contributions, conference speaking, or published technical writing.

- Strong opinions, loosely held,you bring conviction to technical discussions while remaining genuinely open to better ideas.

- Expertise in data platform architecture: streaming pipelines, data lakes, warehouses, or distributed analytics.

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems architecture
- event streaming and messaging infrastructure
- scalable data stores
- cloud-native infrastructure
- backend engineering

### Nice to have
- compliance-heavy environments
- AI/ML infrastructure
- external technical leadership
- data platform architecture

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