Principal Software Engineer

PointClickCare is searching for a Principal Software Engineer who will contribute to best practice application development by writing and rigorously defending production-grade code on a regular basis, while also encouraging and optimizing the daily execution of technical excellence across an empowered Scrum team. This is a hands-on leadership role, requiring the ability to design and implement features from the ground-up while mentoring other team members and delivering both business and technical objectives through ambiguity and uncertainty.

To succeed as a Principal Software Engineer at PointClickCare, you need to be collaborative, adventurous and passionate. Collaborative means that you’re enthusiastic about jumping in to help achieve the team’s top priorities, no self-promoting politicians allowed. Adventurous means that you’re not afraid to dive into uncharted technical territory and get your own hands dirty while supporting and driving delivery of complex features through a dedicated Scrum team. Passionate means that you’re eager to learn and share knowledge that drives the team forward and excited to be part of a movement that is positively impacting the lives of seniors and their caregivers all over North America

 

·       Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle

·       Work with business to iterate over software requirements

·       Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code

·       Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting

·       Analyze and debug systems

·       Perform validation and verification testing in a test-driven manner

·       Review the work of others, and invite others to review your work

·       Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to fix and improve products

·       Ensure software is up-to-date with latest technologies

 

·       Experience writing clean code that performs well at scale using Java

·       In-depth knowledge of relational databases (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL)

·       Solid experience writing RESTful API endpoints

·       Absolutely love TDD and have working knowledge of it

·       Proficient in GIT

·       Experience using system and performance monitoring tools (e.g. New Relic, DataDog)

·       Experience with automated testing frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, RestAssured)

·       Excellent organization, critical-thinking and personal leadership skills

·       Self-starter with the ability to deliver with minimal supervision

·       Being okay with the uncomfortable feeling that comes from learning new things

·       Team player

·       Analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude

·       Proven experience as a great Engineer

·       BSc/BA in Computer Science or a related degree

Prompt Engineering for Productivity – Strong ability to craft effective prompts for AI tools like GitHub Copilot to generate, refactor, and explain code

.AI-Augmented Development in IDEs – Daily use of IDEs (e.g. IntelliJ, VS Code, Cursor) with AI-powered extensions (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Junie, Windsurf) to accelerate coding, testing, and debugging tasks.

AI in the SDLC Beyond Code – Leverages AI for writing documentation, generating test cases, summarizing technical discussions, and assisting with incident response or backlog grooming.

       Experience with UI development and frameworks (e.g. Vue.js, React, Angular)

·       Nice to have React, Selenium automation and cloud experience

·       Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Istio

·       Experience with Ansible

·       Experience with Jenkins CI/CD pipeline

·       Linux and IP networking knowledge

·       Experience with AWS/Azure cloud services or equivalent

·       Experience with SAML, OAuth and OpenID Connect

·       Experience working on a SaaS product

·       Experience withService Oriented Architecture 

·       Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash or Groovy

·       On-call experience with production grade systems

·       Has mentored others in a professional setting

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