Job Description
Job Description Position Title: Principal Software Engineer Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting direct-hire opportunity for a Principal Software Engineer. Job Responsibilities: Elevate the technical judgment of engineers around you through design reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship Troubleshoot and drive resolution of the hardest cross-system issues in our stack Participate in on-call rotation to ensure system reliability and rapid issue resolution Engage directly with product and executive stakeholders to assess feasibility, cost, and risk of strategic initiatives Drive architectural decisions and technical direction across multiple teams and systems Directly build and ship software that tackles the hardest, most ambiguous technical problems in our stack Set the engineering standard through your own code, design patterns, and technical approach Own cross-cutting concerns: scalability, reliability, security posture, and cloud cost efficiency Identify converging efforts across teams and consolidate before they become compounding tech debt Design and evolve system architectures for our B2B portals, collaboration tools, internal platforms, and customer-facing APIs Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions, technology bets, and system design tradeoffs with direct business impact Job Qualifications: 10+ years of software development experience, having progressed from shipping great software to shaping how organizations approach building it Deep architectural experience designing systems that span multiple services, teams, or domains Exceptional hands-on engineering skills across the full stack, with the ability to go deep on the hardest problems in any part of the system Strong proficiency across multiple languages and comfortable ramping quickly on ones you haven't used before. Our stack includes Go, TypeScript, C#, and React Proven ability to own the full software development lifecycle, from requirements and design through construction, testing, deployment, and production operations Experience with cloud architecture and resource-efficient infrastructure design at scale Full ownership mentality that extends beyond your own code to the health of systems, culture, and teams around you Strong understanding of SQL databases, caching layers, event-driven architectures, and data pipeline design Pragmatic technical judgment that optimizes for the right solution given real constraints, not the theoretically perfect one Track record of driving technical alignment across teams with competing priorities Enthusiasm for leveraging AI-assisted development tools and emerging technologies Ability to translate between business language and technical language fluently, in both directions Must have permission to work in the US on a permanent basis Ideally, you’ll also have: Experience with healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR) or regulated industry environments Experience with GraphQL, event-driven data pipelines, or healthcare integration patterns (EHR, PMS, PBM) Advanced DevOps and platform engineering experience including Infrastructure as Code, containerization, and observability at scale Job Details: Job Type: Direct Placement Salary Range: $155,000 – $215,000 Location: Redmond, WA / Remote Must be a US Citizen or Green Card holder