Principal Engineer

Carease Health; Lakewood Township (NJ); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

401(k)

Job summary

Carease Health, based in Lakewood, NJ, is building a nationwide preventive healthcare platform. We seek a Principal Engineer to architect and ship a clinical intelligence system with direct patient data and real-world clinical workflows.

You will drive hands-on development initially and later scale the engineering team under the CEO’s oversight. You will own cross-cutting areas—data models, AI layers, and API standards—while ensuring HIPAA and CMS compliance.

Qualifications

• Shipped healthcare software in production for real users.
• Experience with SNF/LTPAC EHR ecosystem.
• Able to justify architecture decisions and tradeoffs.
• Comfortable from architecture work to hands-on coding.
• Familiar with multi-source data at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the end-to-end architecture of Carease's clinical intelligence platform.
• Own EHR integration strategy across leading SNF/LTPAC platforms.
• Evaluate third-party clinical tools and build integration layers.
• Develop AI capabilities for decision support, documentation, and revenue integrity.
• Define interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7, internal APIs).
• Ensure HIPAA safeguards, AI governance, and CMS-defensible design.
• Own the product roadmap with concrete shipping milestones.
• Hire and lead the engineering team as the platform scales.

Skills

Software architecture

Healthcare data experience

EHR systems integration

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

AI/ML in production

HIPAA/SOC 2/HITRUST knowledge

Team leadership

Tools

FHIR

HL7

SNOMED

ICD-10

CPT

APIs

Job description

About Carease Health

Carease Health is a nationwide preventative healthcare company focused on reducing hospitalizations and improving outcomes for high-risk patients in skilled nursing facilities. We deliver Advanced Primary Care Management (APCM), Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM), and Collaborative Care (CoCM) services across hundreds of SNF and long-term care facilities. We are an established, privately held company operating at scale. Our mission is to keep patients healthier, safer, and supported outside the hospital setting by combining technology, clinical expertise, and proactive care coordination.

The Role

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to architect and build the proprietary clinical intelligence platform that will define Carease's next chapter. We have real clinical operations, real patient data across hundreds of facilities, established workflows, and an experienced clinical leadership team. What we haven't yet built is the platform itself. You are the person who builds it.

This is a hands-on role with full strategic ownership. In the first phase, you'll be architecting and building directly — writing code, making integration decisions, shipping early product. As the platform matures, you'll grow and lead the engineering team behind you, shifting toward delegation, hiring, and strategic oversight while keeping technical depth. You will report to the CEO and work closely with the broader leadership team.

What You Will Do

• Design and build the architecture of Carease's clinical intelligence platform end-to-end — data models, integration boundaries, AI layer, clinical decision support
• Own the EHR integration strategy across the leading SNF/LTPAC platforms
• Evaluate third-party clinical tools, assess their APIs, and build the integration layers
• Build AI capabilities across clinical decision support, documentation, and revenue integrity workflows — engineered for clinical defensibility
• Define FHIR, HL7, and internal API standards for interoperability across the platform
• Ensure HIPAA technical safeguards, AI governance, and CMS-defensible system design
• Own the product roadmap with concrete shipping milestones
• Hire and lead the engineering team as the platform scales

What We Are Looking For

You have shipped clinical or healthcare systems in production — used by real providers, audited by real compliance teams. You can explain not just what you built but how you built it, at the architecture level. You have opinions about data models and integration patterns because you've lived with the consequences of getting them wrong. You're equally comfortable in the architecture seat and at the keyboard.

Specifically:

• 7+ years of software engineering with production systems you personally designed and built
• Production experience of healthcare data infrastructure and/or clinical AI
• Direct working knowledge of the SNF/LTPAC EHR ecosystem
• Fluency in healthcare data standards: FHIR, HL7, SNOMED, ICD-10, CPT
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP), modern data architecture, and AI/ML systems in production
• Experience with multi-source data infrastructure at scale
• Working understanding of HIPAA, SOC 2, and HITRUST in real implementation contexts
• Experience building third-party integrations against vendor APIs
• Experience building production systems on top of existing, fragmented infrastructure
• Architectural decisions made fast, with conviction, owned end-to-end
• A track record of building hands-on early and scaling through delegation as the team grows

Strongly Preferred

• Direct integration experience with leading SNF EHRs
• Background in clinical decision support, alerting systems, or predictive analytics for post-acute care
• Experience with APCM, RPM, CoCM, or related CMS chronic care programs
• Familiarity with FDA SaMD guidance and the CDS exclusion criteria

Why This Role

• Greenfield build on top of real data and real clinical operations — not a pitch deck
• Already revenue-generating and profitable — you're solving for real clinical action, not chasing a Series B
• High-ownership role with the autonomy to make architecture decisions that matter

Location & Compensation

On-site hybrid for the right candidate, with periodic presence in Lakewood, NJ for key inflection points. Base salary range: $220,000–$270,000, commensurate with experience. Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, and 401(k).

Equal Opportunity

Carease Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.