Principal Engineer

We’re partnered with a fast-scaling healthcare technology company building modern infrastructure that improves healthcare delivery and patient outcomes at scale.

They’re now looking for a Principal backend/platform engineer to help lead the evolution of a critical identity and access management platform supporting secure, scalable access across multiple products and services.

This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform security, and modern AI-assisted engineering practices.

What's on offer

• up to 250k+ up to 150k Bonus + meaningful equity
• Remote-first environment with strong flexibility
• Opportunity to own and shape a critical platform domain at scale
• High-impact role within a mission-driven healthcare technology business
• Collaborative engineering culture investing heavily in AI-assisted development and modern platform engineering

The Mandate

• Lead the modernisation and evolution of the company’s identity and access management platform
• Own authentication, authorization, SSO, and secure access infrastructure across multiple products
• Design and scale secure backend services and distributed systems in a cloud-native environment
• Drive reliability, observability, monitoring, and rollout best practices across critical platform services
• Partner closely with Product, Security, SRE, and Engineering leadership on platform strategy and execution
• Help define engineering standards, architecture direction, and long-term platform scalability
• Mentor engineers and bring clarity to complex technical and operational challenges
• Contribute to the adoption and evolution of AI-assisted engineering workflows across the organisation

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with strong backend and distributed systems expertise
• Deep experience building identity and access management systems (OAuth2, SAML, JWT, SSO)
• Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript, Node.js/NestJS, and modern cloud infrastructure
• Expertise across AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code practices (Terraform preferred)
• Experience designing highly scalable, resilient, production-grade systems
• Strong architectural reasoning and ability to own systems end-to-end
• Comfortable operating across cross-functional teams including Product, Security, and SRE
• Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools and workflows within engineering environments

Bonus

• Experience modernising platform or security-critical systems
• Exposure to event-driven architecture and messaging systems
• Healthcare, fintech, or other regulated industry experience
• Polyglot engineering background (Go, Python, Java, etc.)
• Experience building internal developer platforms, tooling, or AI-native engineering workflows

Sounds good? Please apply to find out more!