Principal Software Engineer
Aegis Ventures2 months 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 New York–based venture studio that builds and funds AI-native healthtech companies in partnership with entrepreneurs and healthcare leaders. Founded in 2020, it collaborates with a consortium of health systems to originate, launch, and scale startups, providing capital, customer access, and company-building support. The privately held firm has launched six companies to date.