Principal Software Engineer

About the Role

As a Principal Software Engineer at Covera Health, you'll gain a deep understanding of our product through close collaboration with data scientists, clinicians, and others in the company. You'll work with a distributed engineering team to build and enhance the web services and applications that support our customers. We'll look to you to help ensure that we're leveraging and building the best technology that we can, and you'll play a key role in shaping the future direction of the product. We care about our work at Covera Health and expect you to care about yours. We like engineers with attention to detail who strive to deliver high-quality work (even when it's needed quickly) and who are continually learning (including learning from mistakes). It's important for engineers on our team to be able to effectively collaborate and communicate with others, including exchanging opinions about technology in a constructive way.

You will recruit great talent into our Engineering group and develop and build out our teams to focus on different needs. You will take a hands-on role leading and managing--using your knowledge and experience to guide the technical direction for the team, supporting engineers in executing on the vision, and delivering great outcomes for the company. In doing so, you will cultivate a strong engineering culture--championing best practices, embracing solid processes, and setting high standards for quality.

You will:

• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and other teams across the company to understand and support business needs.
• Use your knowledge and experience with different technologies to help us choose the right tool for each job (and to help us switch to better tools where appropriate).
• Design products around a variety of different workflows for Covera including: healthcare provider data, patient authorizations and claims, medical images and reports, proprietary quality assessments into COE worklows, quality workflows, and more
• Design and build reliable, performant, maintainable, secure systems and pipelines which can scale to the needs of our business.
• Transform workflows and integrations into streamlined and automated code to enable company priorities
• Expose data interfaces to customers, providers, and internal teams.
• Mentor other engineers by reviewing work, providing feedback, and evangelizing best practices.
• Play a key role in recruiting and scaling team.

About you:

You are passionate about using your skills in software to help improve quality of care for patients across the country. You strive to deliver high quality work, and have great attention to detail. You are an excellent communicator and work well in a collaborative team environment.

Requirements:

• BA/BS in computer science or relevant experience
• 8+ years of professional full-stack software development experience.
• Strong problem solving skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to effectively handle ambiguity, balance competing requirements, and deliver practical solutions.
• Strong communication skills with excellent ability to work in a team environment.
• Strong software design skills
• Ability to write clean, correct, well-tested code.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or other relational database systems.
• Experience with Python and Django
• Familiarity with HTML/CSS/JavaScript and at least one front-end framework
• Familiarity with AWS

Benefits

You will be a full-time employee with a competitive salary, stock options, and great benefits. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, HRA, 401k, pre-tax commuter benefits, flexible paid time off, and a comfortable office space filled with a variety of quality snacks and beverages. Most importantly, you’ll get to know each of us and we love to work together to find solutions. We are a talented, fun, focused, and unique team of people who are truly passionate about changing healthcare for the better! Even while remote, you'll experience the Covera culture as we offer a host of virtual experiences including a book club, fitness club, guest speakers, dynamic Slack channels, and more!

The minimum and maximum salary for this position is $179,000 -$ 243,000. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including: level, relevant prior experience, skills, and expertise.

At Covera Health, we strive to build diverse teams that reflect the people we want to empower through our technology. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Equal Opportunity is the Law, and Covera Health is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. If you have a specific need that requires accommodation, please let a member of the People Team know.