[Hiring] Principal Software Engineer @Hi Rasmus

Role Description

We are looking for a deeply hands-on Principal Software Engineer to be the most senior technical individual contributor at Hi Rasmus. Reporting to our Director of Engineering, this is a role on our Principal track, a craft career path that sits alongside the management track rather than beneath it.

• Work alongside outcome teams to solve complex technical problems, particularly those spanning systems, teams, or domains.
• Pilot new tools, patterns, and practices through real production work before supporting broader adoption.
• Facilitate the architecture forum, bringing Product and other stakeholders into decisions early and establishing a clear process for documenting, communicating, and revisiting those decisions.
• Partner with the Director of Engineering, CTO, and Lead Engineers to guide the evolution of our web and mobile platform across Vue 3, Quasar, Capacitor, Node.js, Firebase, Firestore, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Evaluate and recommend tooling and framework decisions, including build, buy, adopt, or retire recommendations grounded in real evidence and business needs.
• Take on the complex, cross-cutting problems that span teams or that no single team can own, and land them in production.
• Establish shared technical standards across code quality, testing, APIs, data modelling, documentation, and system design, building adoption through practical value, review, and example.
• Surface technical debt, performance, scalability, and system-health risks early, and partner with Engineering leadership to prioritize the right investments.
• Strengthen internal ownership of critical systems, architectural decisions, deployment paths, and operational knowledge through clear documentation, knowledge-sharing, and hands-on collaboration.
• Build alignment across teams through the Lead Engineers guild while preserving the ownership and autonomy of individual outcome teams.
• Advance responsible AI-assisted development practices and evaluate their impact on quality, speed, reliability, privacy, and security. Help scale what works and thoughtfully retire practices that no longer serve us.
• Identify technical risk, performance, and scalability problems before they are urgent, and lead the work to remove them.
• Mentor Senior and Lead Engineers through pairing, design review, technical feedback, and shared problem-solving.
• Contribute to the engineering career ladder and to levelling and calibration, and act as the technical assessor in engineering hiring, with decisions owned by Lead Engineers and the Director of Engineering.
• Partner with the Principal QA Engineer, Product, and DevOps so that quality, testability, and operability are designed in rather than added later.
• Contribute to compliance and audit readiness by helping make sure our technical practices hold up to external scrutiny in a regulated healthcare context.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Senior, Lead, or Principal Software Engineer, with a track record of delivering complex, production-grade systems.
• Deep technical capability that remains current. You can step into a difficult problem, contribute meaningfully in the code, and help carry the solution into production.
• Deep proficiency in Vue 3 and Node.js, with strong full-stack understanding.
• Strong, practical experience with Domain-Driven Design. You can identify bounded contexts within a complex domain, model them thoughtfully, and protect those boundaries under delivery pressure.
• Solid experience with Firebase, Firestore, and Google Cloud Platform services.
• A track record of setting technical direction across multiple teams, not just delivering within one.
• Deep architecture experience across approaches such as layered systems, event-driven architecture, and modular monoliths, with the judgment to choose appropriate patterns and explain trade-offs clearly.
• The ability to connect architecture and technical trade-offs to product goals, customer needs, business outcomes, and responsible growth.
• High code-quality standards and strong opinions, held with curiosity and openness.
• Clear written communication, particularly through design documents, architectural decision records, standards, and thoughtful review feedback.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, navigating disagreement constructively, and making sound decisions when there is no perfect answer.
• Strong interest in AI-assisted development and modern engineering workflows.
• Experience working in an empowered product-team model, such as the approach described in Marty Cagan’s INSPIRED, is a plus.
• Experience in healthcare, regulated technology, or another environment where privacy, security, quality, and trust matter deeply is also a plus.

Benefits

• Professional development opportunities.
• Room for growth within the company.
• Fully remote and flexible work environment—work from wherever feels right!
• Opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the Autism healthcare space.