Principal Software Engineer

HealthBridge; Yakima (WA); Remote; USD 149,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

HealthBridge in Yakima, WA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer who can turn complex requirements into reliable, scalable software. This role offers ownership of your roadmap and a team that helps you grow, with remote options.

You will decide when to buy Terraform versus build it for HealthBridge's Yakima stack, mentor senior engineers, surface production insights with data teams, refine microservices, optimize high‑throughput queries, and lead the Collaboration migration away from the

Qualifications

• Ask dumb questions before expensive mistakes.
• Align stakeholders who disagree.
• 10 years of Emotional Intelligence practice.
• Ability to mentor or support principal teammates.
• Judgment to say no to good ideas at the wrong time.

Responsibilities

• Decide when to buy Terraform versus build it for HealthBridge's Yakima, WA stack.
• Work closely with data teams to surface insights from production systems.
• Refine and maintain microservices that support HealthBridge customers in Yakima, WA.
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput HealthBridge workloads.
• Lead the Collaboration migration that retires HealthBridge's legacy stack.
• Translate the genuinely-flexible Node.js outage into fixes for future Yakima launches.
• Defend HealthBridge uptime through the 2 a.m. Yakima pages.

Skills

Mentoring

Leadership

Emotional intelligence

Questioning mindset

Stakeholder alignment

Job description

Our technology team is growing, and we want a Principal Software Engineer who can turn complex requirements into reliable, scalable software. This question-everything principal role offers $149,000 - $210,000, the freedom to own your roadmap, and a team that helps you grow.

Key Responsibilities

• Decide when to buy Terraform versus build it for HealthBridge's Yakima, WA stack
• Work closely with data teams to surface insights from production systems
• Refine and maintain microservices that support HealthBridge customers in Yakima, WA
• Tune database queries and schemas for high-throughput HealthBridge workloads
• Lead the Collaboration migration that finally retires HealthBridge's gloriously-unglamorous legacy stack
• Translate the genuinely-flexible Node.js outage into fixes that make the next Yakima launch dull
• Defend HealthBridge uptime through the 2 a.m. Yakima pages nobody volunteers for

What You'll Bring

• A bias toward asking the dumb question before the expensive mistake
• The diplomacy to align stakeholders who don't agree yet
• 10 years of Emotional Intelligence práctica, plus a hunger for what's next
• Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support principal teammates
• The judgment to say no to good ideas at the wrong time

Here at HealthBridge, we combine remote-native engineering with a relentless focus on the customers we serve in Yakima, WA. Feedback flows in every direction at HealthBridge, from the newest hire to the people signing the $149,000 - $210,000 checks.

Take $149,000 - $210,000, add a mentor invested in your rise, layer on benefits and remote options, and that is the HealthBridge offer in one breath.

Newly timestamped, HealthBridge keeps this principal opening on the active board.

We hire for hunger as much as resumes, so if that's you, the Principal Software Engineer role is open.