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

What your day-to-day will look like:
• 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

What qualifications we're looking for:
• Experience writing clean code that performs well at scale using Java

• Experience with Spring Boot
• 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

Bonus points for:
• 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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$153,500 - $170,600 a year

At PointClickCare, base salary is one of the many components that make up our total rewards package. The CAD base salary range for this position is $153,500-170,600 (not overtime eligible) + bonus +equity+ benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by job and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the target for new hire salaries for the position across all CAD locations. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by job-related skills and knowledge, relevant experience including professional and lived experience, and/or work location. Your recruiter can share more information about our total rewards package during the hiring process.