Principal Engineer (AI-Augmented Full-Stack, Platform Leadership)Location: New York City (Hybrid/Onsite as applicable)
Compensation: $250,000 - $275,000 + equity
The RoleOur client is hiring a
Principal-level Engineer to drive transformative impact across their platform and product engineering organization. This is a senior technical leadership role for someone who can solve ambiguous, cross-team problems, define architectural standards, and shape technical direction-while still being highly hands-on.
You'll lead and execute multi-system technical roadmaps tied to business outcomes, act as a force multiplier for the org, and champion AI-augmented development practices to improve engineering velocity and quality.
What You'll DoTechnical Leadership
- Architect and design systems affecting large portions of the business with strong focus on scalability, maintainability, and performance
- Own technical design and delivery of complex, multi-system projects and critical infrastructure
- Set direction on code standards, system patterns, and core libraries used across teams
- Drive substantial improvements in platform stability, performance, and scalability
Strategic Impact
- Translate strategic objectives into clear technical roadmaps and deliver them end-to-end
- Partner cross-functionally with product and business leaders to influence technical and business decisions
- Anticipate risks in major initiatives and proactively mitigate them
- Facilitate cross-team alignment and drive decisions across groups with competing priorities
AI-Augmented Development
- Champion adoption of AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to improve developer velocity
- Establish best practices for AI-assisted code generation, review, and refactoring
- Integrate AI tools into the engineering lifecycle and measure productivity improvements
Mentorship & Influence
- Mentor senior engineers and serve as a force multiplier across the organization
- Influence without formal authority and drive adoption of cross-team technical initiatives
Tech Stack (Core)- TypeScript, Python, GraphQL, PostgreSQL
- Cloud infrastructure: AWS preferred
- DevOps/CI/CD + containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
What Our Client Is Looking ForRequired
- 15+ years of software engineering experience with strong technical breadth and depth
- Track record delivering complex, high-impact projects spanning multiple teams in enterprise SaaS environments
- Proven ability to define and execute technical vision and strategy at scale
- Expert proficiency in TypeScript, Python, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL
- Experience adopting AI coding assistants and improving team productivity through their use
- Strong full-stack, system design, and cloud fundamentals (AWS preferred)
- Experience with CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and DevOps practices
- Strong program/project leadership: planning, risk mgmt, milestones, rollout, and maintenance
- Excellent communication and ability to influence across stakeholders without formal authority
Preferred
- Healthcare technology experience and familiarity with compliance standards (HIPAA / HITRUST)
- Track record building and deploying user-facing AI products, or deploying/integrating AI/ML models
- Domain familiarity with medical billing, healthcare administration, or clinical workflows
- Open source contributions or technical publications
Why This Role- Enterprise-scale impact in a mission-driven healthtech environment tackling massive healthcare waste
- True principal scope: multi-team architecture leadership + hands-on execution
- Direct leverage: improving the platform while upgrading how the engineering org ships using AI-assisted development practices
