At Alto, our Principal Software Engineers are visionary leaders and hands-on builders who drive innovation in technology. You will venture beyond traditional methods, inspiring new approaches to solve complex challenges. We are seeking an experienced principal engineer adept at building and scaling high-volume, high-throughput systems. You will possess the technical judgment and influence to facilitate impactful discussions with peers and stakeholders. The ideal candidate will operate at the Director, VP, and CTO levels, serving as a key technical adviser. You will provide architectural guidance and detailed technical direction, prioritizing customer value.

Job Description

Accelerate Your Career as You

• Serve as a technical leader in addressing our most complex customer challenges across multiple systems and technology stacks.

• Decompose intricate problems into autonomous, independent, and implementable solutions.

• Understand system dependencies and limitations, working tirelessly to minimize them.

• Exhibit expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.

• Actively mentor and elevate the architecture community of practice, consistently raising the bar.

• Oversee the development of autonomous services exposed via APIs.

• Design and guide the implementation of effective service communications through Event-Driven Architecture, utilizing Cloud Well-Architected Frameworks.

• Leverage cloud technologies to optimize data storage and retrieval processes.

• Be the talent magnet for bar raising engineers

A Bit About You

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 10 years of hands-on experience in enterprise systems architecture, design, and development, with a focus on Ruby, GoLang, and Python. Ruby is required by this position.

• Proven track record of driving projects from concept to launch.

• Ability to influence stakeholders with sound technical judgment.

• A drive to build proof of concepts using new technologies that deliver significant value to our customers.

• Experience in high-quality, highly scalable cloud-native software development, modern programming languages, APIs, Event-Driven Architectures, and performant data models.

• Experience launching ML models into production.

• Experience with Ruby on Rails

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Experience leading projects within the healthcare, pharmacy, or life sciences industry.

• Proven experience in breaking down cloud-native monolithic high-volume applications.

• Experience implementing machine learning or artificial intelligence solutions.

Additional Information

Additional Physical Job Requirements

• Read English, comprehend, and follow simple oral and written instructions. The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading. Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned.

• Communicating with others to exchange information. Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

• Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.

• Frequent repeating motions required to operate a computer that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.

• Sedentary work: Sitting most of the time, exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Walking and standing are required only occasionally.

Salary and Benefits

Salary Range: $208,000 - $260,000

Commission Eligible: No

Equity Eligible: Yes

Travel: Yes - Required up to 15% of the time

Location Requirement: Employment at Alto is limited to individuals residing in the following states: California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Illinois, New York, Kansas, Texas, Maryland, Washington (WA), Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin.

Employment Authorization Requirement: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. At this time, Alto is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa.

Benefits: Full-time employee benefits include: Multiple group medical, dental and vision plans to choose from, 401(k) plan, group life, AD&D, FSA/HSA, employer paid STD/LTD, Take-What-You-Need vacation time, accrued paid sick time, 11 paid holidays (7 for Pharmacy and Care teams), 8 weeks paid parental leave for eligible employees.

Application deadline: Nov 30, 2024

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Alto Pharmacy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation during any portion of the application or hiring process, please contact us at CandidateHelp@alto.com.

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