Principal Software Engineer

PointClickCare is a leading North American healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful care collaboration and real‐time patient insights. For over 20 years, the company has been focused on realizing its vision: to help create a world in which providers and plans can confidently deliver frictionless care. Since its inception, PointClickCare has grown exponentially, with over 2,200 employees working to impact millions across North America. Recognized by Forbes as one of the top 100 private cloud companies and acknowledged by Waterstone Human Capital as Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, PointClickCare leads the way in creating cloud-based healthcare software.

At PointClickCare, we offer a wealth of opportunities and a vibrant culture that empowers our employees. Our dynamic environment is the perfect place to advance your career while engaging in meaningful work alongside incredible colleagues. Here, you’ll discover a space where your talents can thrive, your career can grow, and your work will have a lasting impact on healthcare across North America. We believe that work becomes profoundly fulfilling when driven by a higher purpose.

Join us and be part of a team that is making a real impact.

PointClickCare is searching for a Principal Software Engineer who will contribute to best practice application development by writing and rigorously defending production-grade code on a regular basis, while also encouraging and optimizing the daily execution of technical excellence across an empowered Scrum team. This is a hands-on leadership role, requiring the ability to design and implement features from the ground-up while mentoring other team members and delivering both business and technical objectives through ambiguity and uncertainty.

To succeed as a Principal Software Engineer at PointClickCare, you need to be collaborative, adventurous and passionate. Collaborative means that you’re enthusiastic about jumping in to help achieve the team’s top priorities. Adventurous means that you’re not afraid to dive into uncharted technical territory and get your own hands dirty while supporting and driving delivery of complex features through a dedicated Scrum team. Passionate means that you’re eager to learn and share knowledge that drives the team forward and excited to be part of a movement that is positively impacting the lives of seniors and their caregivers all over North America.

What your day-to-day will look like:

1. Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle
2. Work with business to iterate over software requirements
3. Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code
4. Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
5. Analyze and debug systems
6. Perform validation and verification testing in a test-driven manner
7. Review the work of others and invite others to review your work
8. Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to fix and improve products
9. Ensure software is up-to-date with latest technologies

What qualifications we’re looking for:

1. Extensive experience writing clean code that performs well at scale using Java
2. Experience with Spring Boot
3. In-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL)
4. Solid experience writing RESTful API endpoints
5. Absolutely love TDD and have working knowledge of it
6. Proficient in GIT
7. Experience using system and performance monitoring tools (e.g. New Relic, DataDog)
8. Experience with automated testing frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, RestAssured)
9. Excellent organization, critical-thinking and personal leadership skills
10. Self-starter with the ability to deliver with minimal supervision
11. Being okay with the uncomfortable feeling that comes from learning new things
12. Team player
13. Analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude
14. Proven experience as a great Engineer
15. BSc/BA in Computer Science or a related degree

Bonus points for:

1. Experience with UI development and frameworks (e.g. Vue.js, React, Angular)
2. Nice to have React, Selenium automation and cloud experience
3. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Istio
4. Experience with Ansible
5. Experience with Jenkins CI/CD pipeline
6. Linux and IP networking knowledge
7. Experience with AWS/Azure cloud services or equivalent
8. Experience with SAML, OAuth and OpenID Connect
9. Experience working on a SaaS product
10. Experience with Service Oriented Architecture
11. Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash or Groovy
12. On-call experience with production grade systems
13. Has mentored others in a professional setting

Salary: $153,000 - $170,000 a year

At PointClickCare, base salary is one of the many components that make up our total rewards package. The CAD base salary range for this position is $153,000-170,000 (not overtime eligible) + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by job and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the target for new hire salaries for the position across all CAD locations. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by job-related skills and knowledge, relevant experience including professional and lived experience, and/or work location. Your recruiter can share more information about our total rewards package during the hiring process.

PointClickCare Benefits & Perks:

1. Benefits starting from Day 1!
2. Retirement Plan Matching
3. Flexible Paid Time Off
4. Wellness Support Programs and Resources
5. Parental & Caregiver Leaves
6. Fertility & Adoption Support
7. Continuous Development Support Program
8. Employee Assistance Program
9. Allyship and Inclusion Communities
10. Employee Recognition … and more!

It is the policy of PointClickCare to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, religion, national origin, status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law. PointClickCare welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

PointClickCare is committed to Information Security. By applying to this position, if hired, you commit to following our information security policies and procedures and making every effort to secure confidential and/or sensitive information.