Principal Engineer

About the role

Weave is a leading all-in-one customer experience and payments software platform for small and medium-sized healthcare businesses (SMBs). We are seeking a Principal Engineer to serve as a technical cornerstone of our Applications Fellowship.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year technical vision for Payments, Scheduling, Forms, Business Experience and RCM application platforms, ensuring architectural decisions position Weave for scale, reliability, and competitive advantage
• Drive architectural coherence across multiple teams, identifying and resolving cross-system dependencies and technical debt at the platform level
• Lead technical due diligence for major initiatives, including build-vs-buy decisions, vendor evaluations, and platform migrations
• Identify and solve company-level technical problems that span organizational boundaries
• Forecast project costs in time, money, and opportunity cost; account for impacts across the business
• Monitor the industry landscape, anticipate where high-scale customer experience and transactional platforms are heading, and ensure Weave stays ahead of the curve
• Cut through noise and hype to identify genuine strategic value; advocate for and lead key initiatives that prepare Weave for emerging challenges
• Shape company-wide standards for engineering excellence, observability, and reliability in distributed systems
• Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers across the fellowship, developing the next generation of technical leaders
• Elevate architectural thinking across teams through design reviews, documentation standards, and hands-on guidance
• Build organizational capability that persists beyond your individual contributions

Requirements

• 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, build consensus across organizational boundaries, and translate technical tradeoffs into business terms
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, including building and operating services that handle hundreds of millions of transactions and terabytes of data
• Proven experience with event streaming and messaging infrastructure (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar) at significant scale
• Strong background in scalable data stores—both 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)

Qualifications

• Background in compliance-heavy environments (healthcare, fintech) with experience navigating regulatory requirements in technical design
• 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
• Expertise in data platform architecture: streaming pipelines, data lakes, warehouses, or distributed analytics

Skills

• Technical acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Leadership skills
• Problem-solving abilities
• Technical mentoring

Benefits

At Weave, we offer a competitive compensation package, including a comprehensive benefits program that includes health insurance, retirement savings plans, and paid time off.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $200,000 - $300,000 annually, depending on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

This role is hybrid (Lehi, UT) or Remote (US-based).