Principal Engineer - Applications

The role

You will own the multi-year technical vision for the applications domain, including Payments, Scheduling, Forms, Business Experience, and RCM. You will drive architectural coherence across multiple teams and solve complex technical problems that span organizational boundaries.

What you will do

• Own the multi-year technical vision for application platforms
• Drive architectural coherence across multiple teams
• Lead technical due diligence for major initiatives
• Identify and solve company-level technical problems
• Develop solutions with validation, rollback, and testing plans
• Forecast project costs in time, money, and opportunity cost
• Monitor the industry landscape to ensure competitive advantage
• Shape company-wide standards for engineering excellence
• Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers
• Elevate architectural thinking through design reviews and documentation

Required qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with progressive technical leadership scope
• Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives that delivered measurable business outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and build consensus
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture
• Proven experience with event streaming and messaging infrastructure (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar) at significant scale
• Strong background in scalable data stores including relational (PostgreSQL at scale, Vitess, Spanner) and NoSQL (Bigtable, Redis, etc.)
• Operational experience with cloud-native infrastructure on GCP or AWS, including Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and highly available system design
• Solid backend engineering foundation (Go preferred; Python, Java, or C# acceptable)

Nice to have

• Background in compliance-heavy environments (healthcare, fintech)
• Experience shaping AI/ML infrastructure or integrating AI capabilities into production systems
• History of external technical leadership: open source contributions, conference speaking, or published technical writing
• Strong opinions, loosely held

Before you apply

• Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check

About the company

Weave is a leading all-in-one customer experience and payments software platform for small and medium-sized healthcare businesses (SMBs).