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About the Role
As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll lead architectural decisions, write code, and solve complex technical problems while driving collaboration across teams to ensure successful outcomes. You'll be a mentor and thought leader, flexing between hands-on coding and high-level strategic leadership. If you're passionate about setting technical standards, solving challenging problems, and shaping the future of software, this is your chance to make a significant impact.
Your Area of Focus
- Establish Deep product and technology knowledge.
- Lead Architect & write code.
- Creatively solve complex problems.
- Partner across multiple teams to drive successful outcomes.
- Actively review architecture & technical approach, ensuring organizational alignment.
- Provide tangible and actionable technical feedback to engineers.
Your Professional Qualifications
- 12+ years of software engineering experience.
- 8+ years of technical leadership experience
- Languages: Python, Java, PHP, JavaScript
- Frameworks: Vue, React, Flask, SpringBoot
- Databases: MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, DynamoDB, Firestore
- Cloud: AWS, GCP
- Tenacity and creativity to solve difficult problems with a focus on our customers.
- Flex time spent coding from 10% to 90% as needed by team(s).
- Strong technical mentor and sounding board for teams.
- Desire to blaze the trail on less-glorious engineering tasks that are important to the business.
- Technical acumen and ability to partner garnishes respect from engineering team members and leaders.
- Continually identify opportunities to improve software and propose plans and options to leadership for addressing them.
- Leader in establishing best practices and standards for the engineering organization.
- Communicate complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
- Ability to perform deep technical assessments of existing and potential new technologies.
About Tebra
Kareo and PatientPop have joined forces to become Tebra, the digital backbone for practice well-being. While our teams are still supporting both products, our new hires and current employees are now united as Team Tebra.
Tebra aims to unlock better healthcare by helping independent practices bring modernized care to patients everywhere. Well over 100,000 providers trust Tebra to elevate their patient experience, and help them grow their practice. At Tebra, we’re building the future of well-being together. That shared vision for tomorrow begins with compassion and humanity today.
Our ValuesStart with the Customer
We get to know our customers - and their patients - and look at the world through their lens.
Keep It Simple
Healthcare is too complex. We aim to simplify it for everyone.
Stay Entrepreneurial
We reject the status quo and solve problems with creativity, perseverance, and a bias to action.
Better Together
We are diverse, humble, and collaborative. We put the team first and win together.
Celebrate Success
Life is short and joy is underrated. We take time to have fun and celebrate success.
Perks & Benefits
In addition to our healthcare benefits, we also offer amazing perks! Need work from home basics? We offer a discount through Dell! We also offer a number of resources to help you keep your mind and body healthy. Check out obe Fitness or Gympass for a great workout, or LifeWorks Employee Assistance Program to find mental health resources, along with other resources for everyday occurrences.
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Remote Pay Range
$175,000—$190,000 USD
Tebra is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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