Remote Senior Principal Software Architect

DispatchHealth; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Dispatch Health Management LLC seeks a highly experienced Senior Principal Engineer to lead the design and evolution of centralized, cross‑business systems supporting shared workflows across two product lines. You will code ~50% of the time, guiding cloud native infra, DevOps, and data initiatives.

You will evaluate legacy platforms, define a unified architecture, and influence buy vs. build decisions while partnering with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years hands-on software engineering experience building distributed systems or large-scale SaaS products.
• 5+ years in a Technical Leadership role (Principal, Staff or Architect) driving design decisions for teams.
• Strong systems design expertise: event-driven architecture, microservices, domain-driven design, integration patterns.
• Expert in at least one major cloud platform (AWS or GCP) and cloud-native architecture with 3+ years experience writing infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform.
• Deep knowledge of DevOps practices: CI/CD pipelines, observability, automation, and reliability engineering.
• Strong understanding of APIs, pub-sub & queuing, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and data platforms.
• Security-first mindset with experience embedding security into architecture decisions, including secure design patterns, threat modeling, identity and access management, data protection, and compliance considerations under the guidance of the Information Security organization.
• You are experienced with and fully embrace AI assisted engineering and have a vision of when, how and where to use it.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of shared, centralized systems that support workflows across lines of business.
• Perform deep technical evaluations of existing systems, codebases, infrastructure, and integration touchpoints.
• Create system diagrams, reference architectures, API contracts, and migration approaches.
• Define architectural guardrails, patterns, and best practices for building scalable, reliable, secure platforms.
• Author technical specifications and migration plans that prioritize system reliability and data integrity.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

SaaS

Technical Leadership

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Terraform

CI/CD & Observability

APIs & pub-sub

Docker/Kubernetes

Security & compliance

AI in engineering

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Dispatch Health Management LLC seeks a highly experienced Senior Principal Engineer to lead the design and evolution of centralized, cross‑business systems supporting shared workflows across two product lines. You will code ~50% of the time, guiding cloud native infra, DevOps, and data initiatives.

You will evaluate legacy platforms, define a unified architecture, and influence buy vs. build decisions while partnering with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.