Senior Principal Software Engineer - Tendo

We are looking for a software engineering leader who is passionate about creating next-generation healthcare software that will dramatically improve the lives of patients, clinicians, and caregivers. This person will have the opportunity to lead a team through early stages of product development, while contributing some code of their own and continuing to grow their own skill set.

The ideal candidate has full stack experience building SaaS and/or Cloud Native software for a regulated industry. Additionally, the Senior Principal Software Engineer will bring deep expertise in one or more technologies including distributed microservice architecture, Go, Ent, gRPC, Twirp, and/or AWS technologies like EventBridge and Aurora. Sharing knowledge and mentoring members of a growing team will be key.

The Senior Principal Software Engineer should enjoy leading in an Agile collaborative environment with product managers, designers, external partners, and other engineers working together to build a high quality, consumer-oriented product from the ground up.

About Tendo

Make an impact—join our team!

We’re a fast-growing, mission-driven company building a culture that enables teams and individuals to thrive. Our team-driven culture and rapid growth have earned us recognition as one of Forbes’ Top Startup Employers for both 2024 and 2025. Led by an experienced and proven team, we live by our values and are always on the hunt for motivated people with diverse experiences and backgrounds to help us improve the care journey for patients, clinicians, and caregivers by creating software that provides seamless, intuitive, and user-friendly experiences.

If you like working with innovative technologies and want to be part of a growing team that will help transform the healthcare experience, we encourage you to apply today!

Job Location

Tendo has hubs in San Francisco, CA; San Diego, CA; Salt Lake City, UT; Chicago, IL; Nashville, TN; and Philadelphia, PA. Candidates may be located in any one of our hub locations.

Responsibilities

• Translate abstract concepts into tangible tooling solutions that enhance the organization's ability to build customer-facing applications with improved structure and extensibility.
• Lead performance enhancement and optimization efforts to ensure our microservices and applications can support 10K+ users.
• Lead a team of engineers responsible for architecting, building, documenting, testing, and debugging a large consumer-facing application with significant daily usage.
• Serve as technical owner and subject matter expert for more than one service area.
• Collaborate closely with product owners and designers to understand user needs and lead the translation of wireframes and other requirements into technical requirements and detailed architecture.
• Maintain relationships with other teams to help en