Principal Software Engineer

Our Mission
Zocdoc is the tech company at the beginning of a better healthcare experience. Every day, we are
driven by our mission to give power to the patient, building products and services that simplify
and streamline the overall healthcare journey for patients and providers, delivering the modern
healthcare experience they expect and deserve.

Healthcare moves slow. We move fast. Patients deserve speed and convenience.

Your Impact on our Mission

As the Principal Software Engineer, you’ll work closely with product and engineering teams
across the organization to build a next-generation platform that enables patients to more easily
find providers in their networks and to better understand their healthcare benefits. You’ll be
providing technical oversight and influencing the design decisions for a product tasked with
fixing one of the biggest pain points in healthcare. As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll also
be a mentor to other engineers across the organization, focused on driving engineering best
practices.

You’ll enjoy this role if you are…

● Inspired by the opportunity to positively impact the healthcare experience of

millions of patients and providers
● Passionate about building highly scalable platforms with the latest technologies
● Product-driven with a relentless focus on user needs
● Autonomous, individually accountable, and comfortable working in a remote/hybrid
environment
● A fervent champion of engineering fundamentals and enjoys driving adoption of
best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability across organizations and
teams
● A leader who mentors and grows teams, cultivates innovation and drives
cross-collaboration across multiple teams
● A believer that diverse and inclusive teams and cultures are non-negotiable
 ● An entrepreneur with strong ownership who can thrive in an ambiguous and fast
changing environment

Your day to day is…

● Analyzing and decomposing complex product challenges to drive sound design decisions
● Working hands-on with your team and shipping production code in languages like C#,
React or Python to millions of users autonomously, without reliance on other parts of
the engineering organization
● Collaborating with our agile team of dedicated and brilliant engineers, product managers,
and designers
● Making a meaningful impact as you own and release features that will impact patients,
doctors, and Zocdocr’s alike
● Mentoring your peers and colleagues by giving thoughtful feedback, with the notion that
helping others means learning and growing yourself
● Continuously improve ability to deliver quality solutions through evolving engineering
processes and technical capabilities.

You’ll be successful in this role if you have…

● Successfully shipped code for a consumer-facing product, with experience working

across multiple areas of the technology stack
● Demonstrated history of solid and well rounded system design skills
● Improved dev productivity, efficiency and velocity by setting up the best practices
for coding, testing, deployment and observability
● Successfully mentored other engineers in the past and have encouraged your peers to
use engineering best practices
● Been an effective communicator who is able to dive deep and drive discussions on
the technical aspects of the project and also can present technical solutions at the
right abstraction level for cross functional stakeholders
● Growth mindset and a strong desire to inspire excellence
● Experience successfully working remotely, or with a distributed workforce preferred
 ● 9+ years of significant expertise in full-stack development. Strong understanding of
OO fundamentals. Experience within AWS environments and a high emphasis on
testing is a plus
● HealthTech experience is a plus.

Benefits
● An incredible team of smart and supportive people
● A competitive compensation package, including attractive medical insurance
● Amazing perks – think catered lunch every day, Ping Pong, etc.
● Daycare/creche facility for kids
● L&D offerings + a free LinkedIn learning account
● Corporate wellness programs with Headspace.
● Cellphone and wifi reimbursement
● Competitive parental leave
● Sabbatical leave (over 5 years)
● Annual sponsored health check ups