Principal Software Engineer

Who We Are

Imagine Pediatrics is a tech enabled, pediatrician led medical group reimagining care for children with special health care needs. We deliver 24/7 virtual first and in home medical, behavioral, and social care, working alongside families, providers, and health plans to break down barriers to quality care. We do not replace existing care teams; we enhance them, providing an extra layer of support with compassion, creativity, and an unwavering commitment to children with medical complexity.

What You'll Do

As Principal Software Engineer with Imagine Pediatrics, you will shape technical strategy across engineering, serving as a trusted technical advisor to engineering leadership. You will operate cross-team, explore early-stage ideas before they’re resourced, and enable teams to raise the bar on how we build our digital product suite for our clinical team and our members. You will report to a Director-level or above engineering leader. You will:

Lead the solutioning, planning, and execution of long-term technical strategy, translating business and clinical goals into a technical vision for the organization

Define architectural standards and drive long-term architectural strategy across the organization

Act as a trusted technical advisor to engineering leadership and executives, shaping strategy and presenting recommendations to VPs and the CTO

Explore early-stage ideas and proofs of concept to de-risk future initiatives before they are staffed or scoped

Coach and support the design and development of complex systems and products used across teams, and mentor senior and staff+ engineers

Drive tech-wide collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and craftsmanship practices, modeling strong inter-team collaboration across the organization

Drive innovation in your technical domain and ensure the successful delivery of complex, cross-org projects with company-wide impact

Championing AI adoption across engineering and products

Advocate for engineers to leadership while aligning technical decisions with business priorities

Participate in an on-call rotation, providing senior technical support for production incidents across systems

Be an effective communicator, translating complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders, including clinical, product, and business leaders

Partner cross-functionally with product, clinical, and business stakeholders to understand goals and translate them into technical architecture and requirements

Have a data-driven, iterative approach to building products, and estimate technical scope and timelines for large, cross-team initiatives

Produce technical solutions that satisfy business requirements with a focus on scalability, stability, efficiency, maintainability and extensibility, using modern & stable technologies

Shape the organization's learning culture and long-term engineering process strategy, and demonstrate executive-level composure in high-stakes, ambiguous situations

About You

A visionary technologist with deep experience in systems, architecture, and design; a systems thinker who specializes in solving highly technical and complex problems

A track record of setting technical strategy and driving alignment across multiple engineering teams

Experience defining architectural standards and mentoring engineers

Deep understanding and experience with front end applications, APIs, and back-end services

Strong hands-on experience with React

Experience delivering mobile, digital products to the Apple and Google Play app store; experience developing in React Native is a plus

Strong understanding of all layers of a Web and Mobile solution

Experience using AI as a transformative technology

Experience hosting application services on AWS

Experience in healthcare or another highly regulated industry

Strong collaboration and coaching skills, with demonstrated success developing other engineers

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical ideas for non-technical audiences, including executive stakeholders

Comfort operating in ambiguity, exploring early-stage ideas without well-defined requirements

Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation

Experience working in a fast-paced, hypergrowth, collaborative environment

What We Offer (Benefits + Perks)     The role offers a base salary range of $200,000 - $220,000 in addition to an annual bonus incentive, competitive company benefits package, and eligibility to participate in an employee equity purchase program (as applicable). When determining compensation, we analyze and carefully consider several factors including job-related knowledge, skills and experience. These considerations may cause your compensation to vary.    We provide these additional benefits and perks:

Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance 

Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA; Company-funded HSA

401(k) with 4% match, vested 100% from day one

Employer-paid short and long-term disability 

Life insurance at 1x annual salary 

20 days PTO + 10 Company Holidays & 2 Floating Holidays  

Paid new parent leave

Additional benefits to be detailed in offer

  What We Live By   We’re guided by our five core values:

Our Values:

Children First.  We put the best interests of children above all. We know that the right decision is always the one that creates more safe days at home for the children we serve today and in the future.

Earn Trust.  We listen first, speak second. We build lasting relationships by creating shared understanding and consistently following through on our commitments.

Innovate Today.  We believe that small improvements lead to big impact. We stay curious by asking questions and leveraging new ideas to learn and scale.

Embrace Humanity.  We lead with empathy and authenticity, presuming competence and good intentions. When we stumble, we use the opportunity to grow and understand how we can improve.

One Team, Diverse Perspectives.  We actively seek a range of viewpoints to achieve better outcomes. Even when we see things differently, we stay aligned on our shared mission and support one another to move forward — together.

We Value Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging  

We believe that creating a world where every child with complex medical conditions gets the care and support, they deserve requires a diverse team with diverse perspectives. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer. People seeking employment at Imagine Pediatrics are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, or characteristics (or those of a family member), pregnancy or other status protected by applicable law.