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.