Sr. Principal Platform Engineer

Hummingbird Healthcare

4d•$162,500 - $211,250•Remote

About The Position

We’re elevating patient access so patients can get healthcare how, when, and where they need it. We partner with healthcare systems to transform how patients access care, enabling their providers to focus on what matters most – caring for patients. By managing patient access as a technology-enabled service, we help health systems stabilize costs and improve patient experience while creating good jobs that attract and retain talent in the industry. Our team of experts is obsessed with the connection between the people, processes, and technology that make healthcare organizations hum. Join us and help build the healthcare experience we want for our communities, our families, and ourselves. As a Sr. Principal Platform Engineer at Hummingbird, you’ll be the technical anchor for the team that builds our production platforms. You’ll spend most of your day hands on in the code: designing and building features, making the architecture decisions that shape our applications, and reviewing the work of earlier-career engineers so the whole team grows stronger. You’ll bring deep, independent engineering skill to the work and use AI tools to move faster without relying on them to do the thinking for you. You’ll work closely with your team and partner regularly with IT Security and Data and Analytics to keep our systems connected, reliable, and built to last. For a few engineers just starting their careers, you’ll be the person who helps them understand not just what we build, but why we build it the way we do.

Requirements

8 to 10+ years of software engineering experience, with deep hands-on skill building and shipping production systems.
Strong, independent programming ability across the full stack, working comfortably in both front-end and back-end code.
Hands-on experience with our stack or closely related technologies: TypeScript, Python, React, and Vite.
Strong system design and architecture skills, with the judgment to review designs and sign off on technical direction.
A track record of mentoring and growing earlier-career engineers, including those in their first role out of school.
A process-oriented mindset and the ability to reinforce standards through code and design review.
Comfort using AI-powered development tools to work faster, paired with the discipline not to rely on them for core engineering judgment.

Nice To Haves

A computer science degree or equivalent formal background in software engineering.
Experience in a start-up or fast-paced environment where you’ve built structure while moving quickly.
Background working in regulated, secure, or high-trust environments such as healthcare.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain the core of our production platforms, spending most of your time hands on in the codebase.
Own the architecture decisions for our production applications, choosing where logic should live and how systems should connect.
Review pull requests and designs from earlier-career engineers, reinforcing standards for quality and consistency.
Mentor engineers who are early in their careers, helping them understand the reasoning behind technical decisions.
Develop across the full stack, working in both front-end and back-end code as the work requires.
Partner with IT Security and Data and Analytics to align on data access, integration, and system design.
Troubleshoot complex technical issues, from failed integrations to system reliability problems, and resolve them at the root.
Use AI-powered development tools to speed up delivery while keeping full ownership of quality and design judgment.
Document decisions and tradeoffs so the team can build consistently and maintain systems over time.