Principal Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama, +34 more states.

📋 Description

• Define and enhance the target architecture for FuzeRx’s primary B2B and consumer platforms.

• Lead the technical roadmap to transition outdated systems into modern, scalable, and highly cohesive architectures.

• Oversee the design and execution of the most complex technical projects, including high-volume API integrations, intricate pharmacy fulfillment logistics, and distributed data consistency.

• Act as a mentor and force multiplier for Staff, Senior, and Mid-level engineers.

• Set and uphold engineering standards across the organization, encompassing coding guidelines, testing frameworks, CI/CD pipeline strategies, and security-by-design principles.

• Collaborate extensively with Product Management, Engineering Managers, and Pharmacy Operations to ensure that technical architectures align with long-term business objectives and clinical needs.

• Work in partnership with the InfoSec team to design systems that inherently support stringent healthcare compliance standards (HIPAA, SOC2), ensuring the privacy of patient data and secure messaging.

• Lead initiatives aimed at optimizing system performance, minimizing latency, and enhancing database efficiency within our PostgreSQL and AWS infrastructure.

• Regularly assess new tools, frameworks, and AWS services, conducting proof-of-concepts (POCs) to evaluate their potential for enhancing the FuzeRx ecosystem.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Over 10 years of progressive, hands-on experience in software engineering and systems design.

• At least 3 years working at a Staff, Principal, or comparable senior architectural level, steering technical initiatives across various teams.

• Strong experience in building and scaling distributed, high-throughput, and highly available B2B SaaS or transactional systems.

• Standard business hours; expected to act as a Tier 1 technical escalation point for critical architectural outages.

• Proficient in modern cloud architectures with substantial, hands-on expertise in AWS, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, Python, TypeScript, and JavaScript.

• Familiarity with standard corporate tools (Slack, GSuite, Jira).

• Outstanding communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical trade-offs to non-technical executives and stakeholders.

• Proven track record of designing and implementing complex distributed systems, optimizing intricate relational database queries, and establishing automated deployment pipelines.

🏝️ Benefits

• Dental

• Vision

• Multiple group medical plans to choose from

• 401(k) retirement savings plan

• Group life insurance

• Accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance

• Flexible spending account (FSA) and health savings account (HSA)

• Commuter benefits

• Employer-paid short-term (STD) and long-term disability (LTD) insurance

• Additional supplemental insurance plans (spouse life insurance, legal insurance, an employee assistance program, home health testing kits, and a fertility medication discount program)

• Flexible vacation time

• Accrued paid sick time

• 10 paid holidays

• 2 floating holidays for full-time non-exempt employees

• Eight weeks of paid parental leave for eligible employees

• Additional paid weeks for the birthing parent

• 4 weeks paid caregiver leave

• A Lifestyle Spending Account allowance each month