Principal Engineer

Seniority Level: Senior-Level
Location: Portland, OR

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About DocVocate
DocVocate is a VC-backed, rapidly growing healthtech startup on a mission to make medical claim processing easy for doctors and patients. Our platform is a first of its kind, universal claims automation solution tailored for any provider organization. The US healthcare system is complex, wasteful, and frustrating for both doctors and patients. The frustration stems from unnecessarily high costs and a lack of simplicity. At DocVocate, we’re giving doctors and patients an AI platform to fix that!

About the Role
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join our expanding team. This role requires the ability to effectively balance between people management, technical leadership responsibilities, and writing code. We expect this role to be 60% engineering management and 40% backend coding. In partnership with DocVocate’s leadership team, the Principal Engineer will work primarily with the CEO and Chief Architect and cross-functionally with customer success and sales teams. Additionally, there is a clear growth path to a C-Suite role.

What You Will Do

• Technical Leadership / Product Development
• Lead the development of services and infrastructure across all product features
• Participate in critical, technical, design, strategy and product discussions with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our vision into a tangible product roadmap.
• Develop and support various business-related applications that are using a range of languages, including, but not limited to, Python, JavaScript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL and other technologies as needed.
  
• Evaluate emerging technologies and influence our technology stack, strategic approach, and engineering roadmap.
• Collaborate with leadership to identify appropriate system architecture, features, solutions, timelines, and budgets for new initiatives.
• Design and build security into our systems and infrastructure to avoid disruption and maintain uptime

People Management

• Set the technical vision and lead technical decisions for your team to ensure the team writes simple, clean, and efficient code to create intuitive, beautiful products.
• Set deadlines, monitor progress, and resolve blockers to ensure deadlines are met for product launches, feature upgrades, and maintenance phases.
• Define key metrics and KPIs and implement them to ensure maximum productivity, quality, visibility and predictability for the organization.
• Communicate and support effectively with the various internal stakeholders on dependencies and schedule.
• Source and build a high-performing engineering team that consistently delivers high-impact work that meets our customers’ needs.
• Guide and develop engineers to attain their professional objectives for growth while ensuring the functional success for the business.
  

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree required
• At least 5 years of experience in software engineering, preferably B2B SaaS in healthcare
• At least 2 years of management experience
• You know what high quality code and software engineering processes look like and know how to foster an environment that creates them
• Experience building and supporting rapidly evolving SaaS web applications, ideally using JavaScript and Python, is a plus
• Knowledge of widely-used software engineering tools such as Jira, Git, and CircleCI
• Experience designing, delivering, and operating in a cloud environment
• Track record of integrating third party APIs
• Experience creating, delivering, and operating SaaS microservices at scale
• Ability to execute with little oversight and be able to adapt to problems quickly
• Execution-focused with an ability to navigate ambiguity
• Ability to do both long term thinking and short term planning
• You're passionate about building tools that solve inefficiencies within healthcare

What’s In It For You

• Competitive salary and a generous employee benefits package - including flexible, tax-free health benefits such as a QSEHRA and Health Savings Account (with contributions made by the DocVocate), 401(k) plan, and paid time off (including vacation, sick leave, and holidays)
• Work closely with top healthcare professionals in a rapidly growing, seed-stage startup
• Tight knit, mission-driven team passionate about bringing modern automation to healthcare
• Flexible, open-minded, and entrepreneurial culture
• Opportunity to shape and build an early stage product and team

Location

The location of this position is in Portland, OR and involves being at our Portland office at least 4 out of the 5 working days each week. Relocation may be offered for this role.

At DocVocate, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive company. We seek to create a culture where everyone can belong because we believe that people do their best work when they can show up every day as their authentic selves. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

DocVocate is an equal opportunity employer. We do not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law.

Please apply here: [https://airtable.com/shrJHOfZjuIYvLQXw]