Job Description
Principal Engineer
Experience: - 12+ Years
Location: Nashville, TN (Remote).
What is in it for you?
Principal Engineer responsible for leading the technical direction, architecture, and delivery of cloud-native healthcare platforms using Java, Python, GCP, Kubernetes, and modern distributed systems while mentoring engineering teams and driving engineering excellence.
Responsibilities: -
- Lead the design and development of cloud-native enterprise applications utilizing Java Microservices and Python-based services.
- Own technical architecture decisions across distributed systems, microservices, service mesh, event-driven architecture, and platform modernization initiatives.
- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to engineering teams, ensuring scalable, resilient, and secure solution design.
- Drive the adoption of GCP services including GKE, GCS, and VPC to build highly available cloud-native applications.
- Lead Kubernetes-based deployment strategies, container orchestration, and infrastructure scalability initiatives.
- Establish and enforce engineering standards, development best practices, code quality, security controls, and architecture governance.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Architects, Engineering Leaders, and Business Stakeholders to translate business objectives into technical solutions.
- Design and optimize data solutions leveraging PostgreSQL and Google Cloud Spanner.
- Drive Infrastructure as Code implementation using Terraform and Git-based DevOps workflows.
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads while fostering engineering growth and technical excellence across teams.
- Lead performance tuning, system optimization, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for complex production environments.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and drive innovation through AI-assisted engineering practices and cloud-native modernization strategies.
- Contribute to technical roadmaps, platform strategy, and long-term architectural evolution.
Educational Qualifications: -
- Engineering Degree BE/ME/BTech/MTech/BSc/MSc.
- Technical certification in multiple technologies is desirable.
Skills: -
Mandatory skills
- Strong 12+ years of software engineering experience with strong expertise in designing and delivering enterprise-scale solutions.
- Deep expertise in Java Microservices architecture and backend development within large-scale distributed environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python development for enterprise and cloud-native applications.
- Extensive experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including GKE, GCS, VPC, and cloud-native architecture patterns.
- Proven experience designing and implementing microservices, event-driven architectures, service mesh solutions, and distributed systems.
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native deployment strategies.
- Experience leading architecture reviews, technical governance, engineering standards, and platform modernization initiatives.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and source control management using Git.
- Strong database expertise with PostgreSQL and Google Cloud Spanner.
- Experience leading engineering teams, mentoring developers, and driving technical delivery across multiple workstreams.
- Strong system design, scalability, performance optimization, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working within Agile delivery frameworks and managing complex technical programs.
Good to Have Skills
- Experience with Angular for modern front-end application development.
- Exposure to Agentic AI development frameworks and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
- Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants such as Devin, Claude, or similar platforms.
- Experience with Google Vertex AI and AI-enabled application development.
- Healthcare domain experience.
- Experience building platform engineering capabilities and developer productivity frameworks.