Principal Software Engineer – AI-Driven Backend Leader

Innovaccer Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Paid Time Off

Best-in-Class Parental Leave

Recognition & Rewards

Comprehensive Insurance Coverage

Job summary

Innovaccer Inc. in San Francisco invites a Principal Software Engineer to stay hands-on while shaping the most critical parts of our platform, including backend services, data pipelines, and AI/ML features.

You will own architectures, write production code, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, clinical, and engineering peers to deliver scalable healthcare solutions that meet regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with a strong track record of personally building and shipping large-scale production systems.
• Hands-on coding daily in one or more modern languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go).
• Strong software design skills across distributed systems, backend services, APIs, and data-intensive architectures.
• Experience building and integrating AI/ML into products and production systems.
• Hands-on experience operating production systems: CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, performance tuning, incident response.
• Familiarity with healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7) and regulatory compliance (HIPAA, GDPR).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and strong communication, aligning engineers and stakeholders around a technical approach.
• Cloud and container tooling experience: AWS, GCP, or Azure; Docker, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship the most complex and critical components of Innovaccer's platform — backend services, APIs, and data pipelines — writing high-quality production code yourself.
• Build AI/ML-powered product features end to end: integrating models, designing the systems and data flows around them, and ensuring they perform reliably in production.
• Own technical architecture for major systems, making hands-on design decisions for scalability, performance, security, and cost, then implementing them.
• Lead engineering best practices across the full SDLC — code quality, testing, security, observability, and operational excellence.
• Build resilient, well-tested services that integrate cleanly across products and with external healthcare systems.
• Ensure the software you build complies with healthcare and data-protection requirements, including HIPAA and GDPR.
• Debug, profile, and harden production systems, taking ownership of reliability and incident response.
• Provide hands-on technical mentorship to senior and staff engineers through design reviews, pairing, and code review.
• Partner with product and clinical stakeholders to turn real-world needs into well-scoped, technically sound designs you can deliver.
• Evaluate and select technologies, frameworks, and tooling, balancing capability, cost, risk, and time-to-value.

Skills

Python/Java/Go

Distributed systems design

AI/ML integration

CI/CD / Infrastructure as code

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Docker / Kubernetes

Communication

Education

Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Innovaccer Inc. in San Francisco invites a Principal Software Engineer to stay hands-on while shaping the most critical parts of our platform, including backend services, data pipelines, and AI/ML features.

You will own architectures, write production code, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, clinical, and engineering peers to deliver scalable healthcare solutions that meet regulatory requirements.