Principal Software Engineer
Aegis Ventures28 days ago
Remote, United States or Columbus, OH, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect and lead development of critical systems, services, and infrastructure with emphasis on reliability, security, performance, and maintainability.
- Partner with Product and program leaders to align engineering solutions with user needs, regulatory requirements, and business outcomes.
- Set and evolve technical standards, address technical debt, improve code reviews, and drive initiatives that improve team velocity and code quality.
- Coach and mentor engineers across teams and support their technical and career development.
- Evaluate new technologies to drive innovation, simplify complexity, and support organizational scale.
- Contribute directly to codebases, especially architectural foundations, prototypes, and complex or high-risk areas.
- Facilitate collaboration, identify gaps, and unblock teams without taking over their work.
- Strengthen the engineering culture through curiosity, learning, integrity, and positive team dynamics.
- Help recruit and onboard exceptional engineering talent.
Requirements
- 12+ years of engineering experience across multiple technology stacks and deep experience building and scaling distributed systems.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, including setting direction, influencing others, and delivering results without formal authority.
- Strong software engineering foundation covering automated testing, infrastructure as code, observability, and CI/CD practices.
- Experience with cloud-native systems, preferably AWS, and containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases.
- Experience working in a highly regulated environment, preferably healthcare, with understanding of compliance and data protection such as HIPAA.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, including representing engineering in executive and product strategy discussions.
- Passion for teaching, mentoring, and cultivating high-trust, high-autonomy teams.
Benefits
- Hybrid work flexibility is offered.
- Competitive salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits are offered.
- The role provides an opportunity to work on healthcare technology enabling medical breakthroughs.
- Employees work with experienced healthcare technology founders and investors.
- The company promotes a values-driven culture centered on integrity, accountability, empathy, curiosity, and patients first.
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About Aegis Ventures
Aegis Ventures is a NYC-based venture studio that partners with entrepreneurs and industry leaders to build and scale AI-native healthtech companies that tackle the hard problems in healthcare. The Aegis platform combines deep insights, aligned capital, and proprietary access to customers to substantially increase the velocity and success rate of the new companies we build.