Principal Engineer

Alto; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dental & Vision

401(k) Plan

Parental Leave

Job summary

Fuze Health is seeking a Principal Engineer to drive the technical vision across our engineering organization, guiding architecture for B2B and consumer platforms. You will influence cross‑functional teams and set high standards for scalability, security, and reliability.

You will work with AWS, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, Python, and TypeScript/JavaScript to deliver mission-critical health tech platforms, ensuring HIPAA/SOC2 compliance and strong data privacy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering and systems design experience.
• 3+ years at Staff/Principal level driving initiatives across teams.
• Experience building, scaling distributed B2B SaaS/ transactional systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve target architecture for core platforms.
• Lead high-volume API integrations and complex fulfillment workflows.
• Mentor Staff/Senior engineers and promote design reviews.
• Establish engineering standards, CI/CD, and security-by-design practices.
• Collaborate with Product, Eng Managers, and Pharmacy Ops to align tech with business goals.
• Ensure HIPAA/SOC2 compliant systems and secure data handling.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Cross-team collaboration

Education

BSc in CS/Software Eng

MS in CS/Systems Eng (preferred)

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Ruby on Rails

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

Jira

Job description

Job Summary

At Fuze Health, we put patients first and tirelessly address the most pressing needs in healthcare. We empower millions to digitally connect with care providers, essential health resources and needed treatments – and enable care providers, employers, health plans and life sciences companies to meaningfully enhance quality, outcomes and value. We are dedicated to helping our partners evolve and modernize to meet emerging patient and marketplace needs. Fuze Health’s foundation is built upon the strategic combination of several proven, technology-powered innovators in the digital health, diagnostics, and pharmacy sectors. Our growing portfolio brings together the capabilities of industry leaders including LetsGetChecked, Truepill, and Alto Pharmacy, to create a distinctive, unified force in healthcare. Together, we have the shared vision, advanced capabilities and talented teams to deliver next-generation solutions that patients and healthcare partners need today and into the future.

Job Description

As a Principal Engineer at Fuze Health/FuzeRx, you are a top-tier technical leader and individual contributor who drives the overarching technical vision and architectural strategy across our engineering organization. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will operate across multiple product squads, guiding the design and execution of our most complex, mission-critical systems. By setting the standard for engineering excellence and leveraging our core stack (AWS, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, Python, and TypeScript/JavaScript), you will ensure our digital pharmacy, API-powered fulfillment, and patient care platforms are highly scalable, performant, and secure. This role is essential to our mission, directly enabling FuzeRx to process high volumes of healthcare transactions reliably while maintaining strict compliance and improving patient outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Architectural Vision & Strategy: Define and evolve the target architecture for FuzeRx’s core B2B and consumer platforms. Drive the technical roadmap to transition legacy systems into modern, scalable, and highly cohesive architectures.
• Complex Problem Solving: Lead the design and implementation of the most technically challenging initiatives, such as high-volume API integrations, complex pharmacy fulfillment logistics, and distributed data consistency.
• Technical Mentorship & Leadership: Serve as a mentor and force multiplier for Staff, Senior, and Mid-level engineers. Elevate the engineering culture by instituting rigorous design reviews, pairing sessions, and technical brown-bags.
• Standards & Best Practices: Establish and enforce engineering standards across the organization, including coding guidelines, testing frameworks, CI/CD pipeline strategies, and security-by-design principles.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate deeply with Product Management, Engineering Managers, and Pharmacy Operations to ensure technical architectures align with long-term business goals and clinical requirements.
• Regulatory & Security Compliance: Partner with the InfoSec team to architect systems that natively support strict healthcare compliance standards (HIPAA, SOC2), ensuring patient data privacy and secure messaging.
• Performance & Reliability: Spearhead initiatives to optimize system performance, reduce latency, and improve database efficiency within our PostgreSQL and AWS infrastructure.
• Technology Evaluation: Continuously evaluate new tools, frameworks, and AWS services, running proof-of-concepts (POCs) to determine their viability for improving the FuzeRx ecosystem.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience: 10+ years of progressive, hands‑on experience in software engineering and systems design. 3+ years operating at a Staff, Principal, or equivalent senior architectural level, driving technical initiatives across multiple teams.
• Industry Experience: Extensive background in building and scaling distributed, high‑throughput, and highly available B2B SaaS or transactional systems.
• Shift / Site Specific Requirements: Standard business hours; expected to serve as a Tier 1 technical escalation point for critical architectural outages. [Insert Remote/Hybrid/On‑site details].
• Tools & Tech Stack: Mastery of modern cloud architectures and demonstrable, deep, hands‑on expertise in AWS, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, Python, TypeScript, and JavaScript. Familiarity with standard corporate tools (Slack, GSuite, Jira).
• Other Desired Experience: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical trade‑offs to non‑technical executives and stakeholders. A strong bias for action and pragmatism over architectural purity.
• Measurable Expertise: Proven ability to design and implement complex distributed systems, optimise complex relational database queries, and establish automated deployment pipelines.
• Preferred Qualifications: Education: Master’s degree in Computer Science, System Engineering, or related field.
• Other Desired Experience: Active contributions to the open–source community or experience speaking at technology conferences.
• Specific Required Expertise: Deep domain expertise in HealthTech, Digital Pharmacy, or highly regulated environments. Advanced knowledge of healthcare data interoperability standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR, NCPDP) and electronic health record (EHR) integrations. Experience leading a major architectural paradigm shift (e.g., monolith to microservices or event‑driven architecture) at scale.
• Physical requirements for this role include the ability to work at a computer terminal with monitor, keyboard and mouse for extended periods of time, stoop, bend, and reach for equipment and supplies, make frequent repetitive motions required to operate a computer that include the wrists, hands and fingers, and lift, carry, push, pull, and move light objects up to 20 pounds. The role also requires the ability to effectively communicate through verbal interactions, discern auditory information, and visually perceive details to perform essential job functions. Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and similar applicable state laws, it is Fuze Health’s policy to provide reasonable accommodation to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship.
• Salary Range: $209,600 - $262,000
• Location Requirement: FuzeRx (Truepill / Fuze Care Services) is limited to individuals residing in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington (WA), Wisconsin.
• Employment Authorization Requirement: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. Alto Pharmacy, Fuze Health, LetsGetChecked, and Fuze Care Services can not take over, transfer, or sponsor any visa type at this time.
• Full‑time employee benefits include: dental, vision, and multiple group medical plans to choose from, a 401(k) retirement savings plan, group life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, flexible spending account (FSA) and health savings account (HSA), commuter benefits, employer‑paid short‑term (STD) and long‑term disability (LTD) insurance, and additional supplemental insurance plans (spouse life insurance, legal insurance, an employee assistance program, home health testing kits, and a fertility medication discount program).
• Employees are also provided flexible vacation time, accrued paid sick time, 10 paid holidays, (2 floating holidays for full time non‑exempt employees) , and eight weeks of paid parental leave for eligible employees, additional paid weeks for the birthing parent, 4 weeks paid caregiver leave, and a Lifestyle Spending Account allowance each month.
• More Benefits Information Here: Fuze Health Benefits Site

Additional Information

At Fuze Health, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that celebrates diversity in all its forms. We believe that the diversity of thought, background, and experience strengthens our teams and drives innovation. We are an equal‑opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, color, place of birth, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military service status, or disability status. Our goal is to ensure that everyone feels valued and empowered to thrive.

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