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Role Description

We are seeking a high-impact technical leader responsible for hands-on design, development, and delivery of all RealTime products and services. This role requires an elite engineer who remains "in the weeds"—coding, debugging, and architecting complex systems—while simultaneously leading and mentoring a team of software engineers.

The Principal Software Engineer serves as the technical authority that bridges high-level architectural vision with daily execution. You will drive the adoption of AI-assisted workflows and maintain rigorous engineering standards to deliver reliable SaaS and mobile products at speed and with consistency.

Core Responsibilities

• Hands-On Development & Design
  • Design, code, test, and debug complex software while developing new functionality and enhancing existing products.
  • Stay close to technical decisions, serve as an escalation point for complex delivery issues, and resolve intricate production problems.
  • Create design artifacts for new software and web applications, ensuring the architecture scales to align with company goals.
  • Deliver high-quality software and key features across backend, frontend, and mobile platforms.
• Technical Leadership & Team Management
  • Lead and develop a team of software engineers, managing their day-to-day performance and ensuring the best development practices.
  • Actively mentor peers and less experienced engineers to elevate the organization's overall technical capability.
  • Bring a strong, sensible technical voice to strategy conversations and partner with the VPs of Software and Architecture to validate design tradeoffs and implementation.
  • Drive planning discipline, delivery cadence, and effective execution across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• AI-Assisted Engineering & Quality Standards
  • Utilize tools such as Windsurf and advanced models like Claude Opus to accelerate implementation, refactoring, and test creation.
  • Improve review quality with automated checks for risky changes, security vulnerabilities, and the likelihood of regression.
  • Raise standards for coding practices, branching, code reviews, and testing strategy to ensure release predictability and operational readiness.

Qualifications

• A strong understanding of and proven track record with:
• SDLC in a regulated industry
• Cloud architecture
• Modern software design patterns
• Back-end architecture and design
• Front-end architecture and design
• Mentoring peers and less experienced engineers
• Experience with digital documents
• Experience with PHP, Python, React, JavaScript, and MariaDB/SQL
• Expert in API design and development

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or affiliated discipline
• Familiarity with HIPAA, HITECH, HITRUST, PHI/PII, and PCI DSS working environments
• Ten plus years of experience in software development

Benefits

• The company sponsors health insurance, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Unlimited Paid Time Off.
• 10 paid Holidays.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Work Anniversary Bonus.
• Participation in the Employee of the Quarter Program.
• Monthly $100 Connectivity Stipend Reimbursement.
• RealTime matches employee 401(K) contributions at 100% of the first 3% invested and 50% of the next 2% invested.