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Principal Engineer - Applications

Weave · US Remote · Remote

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About Weave

Weave combines LLMs and domain-specific machine learning to understand engineering work. We understand how much work was done, how good it is, and how AI contributed. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

15+ years of software engineering experience with progressive technical leadership scope Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives that delivered measurable business outcomes

What they're looking for

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience with progressive technical leadership scope
  • Track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives that delivered measurable business outcomes
  • Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, build consensus across organizational boundaries, and translate technical tradeoffs into business terms
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, including building and operating services that handle hundreds of millions of transactions and terabytes of data
  • Proven experience with event streaming and messaging infrastructure (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, or similar) at significant scale
  • Strong background in scalable data stores—both relational (PostgreSQL at scale, Vitess, Spanner) and NoSQL (Bigtable, Redis, etc.)
More about this role

Weave is a leading all-in-one customer experience and payments software platform for small and medium-sized healthcare businesses (SMBs). We are seeking a Principal Engineer to serve as a technical cornerstone of our Applications Fellowship—the domain responsible for key patient-facing and practice-facing features, including RCM Experiences (Payments and Insurance Verification), Scheduling, Forms, Team Chat, Task Center, and Mobile App features for 40,000+ healthcare practices. This is not a role for someone seeking a larger individual contributor scope; it's a role for someone who shapes technical strategy at the company level, influences architectural decisions across multiple teams, and solves the hardest problems that span organizational boundaries.

As a Principal Engineer , you will own the multi-year technical vision for the applications domain, including core systems for Payments and Scheduling, ensuring architectural decisions position Weave for long-term competitive advantage. You'll partner with Engineering Directors, Staff Engineers, and Product leadership to ensure our technical decisions position Weave for long-term competitive advantage. Your success will be measured...

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