Principal Software Engineer- Mobile Apps Team

San Mateo, California
Engineering /
Full Time /
Hybrid
RapidAI is transforming clinical decision-making with the world’s most advanced AI-driven imaging and care coordination solutions. RapidAI empowers care teams with the deepest clinical insights to accelerate diagnosis, streamline workflows, and improve patient outcomes. Running on the secure and scalable Rapid Edge Cloud, RapidAI solutions drive efficiency, enhance collaboration, and enable faster, more confident treatment decisions. Trusted by hospitals worldwide, RapidAI is setting new standards for coordinated, life-saving care by helping hospitals do and see more with ease.

Our mobile app is in constant use by clinical teams to coordinate the treatment of patients in hospitals across the globe. We process data for 1/2 of all stroke cases in the United States and a large number of stroke cases in other countries of the world, including Switzerland, Japan, Australia and Brazil.

At RapidAI, we believe in leveraging cutting-edge technology and research to impact millions of lives. Our software products enhance doctors’ capabilities across hospitals worldwide to respond to and make the best decisions for patients quickly. We are looking for a high-energy employee who is excited to be at the forefront medical device software development. The successful candidate will meet the criteria defined below, and in doing so, will help deliver the best patient care to patients all around the world.

What you will do!

    • Design complex, scalable software systems and architectures. Evaluate existing architectures and propose improvements. Ensure technical decisions align with product roadmap.
    • Plan technical projects and milestone deliverables in alignment with product managers. Coordinate engineers and their tasks and monitor overall progress.
    • Design and build impactful technical solutions and own them through the entire development lifecycle.
    • Develop complex features and components. Review code and designs developed by other engineers. Debug difficult issues across the codebase.
    • Research the latest technologies and propose ways to integrate them to improve the product. Come up with solutions for technical challenges and improvements.
    • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers. Establish engineering best practices and standards.
    • Clearly communicate complex technical concepts and designs to both technical and non-technical audiences. Collaborate cross functionally across product, program management and other teams.
    • Establish quality standards, design review checklists, code review processes etc. Monitor system performance and ensure quality goals are met. Drive continuous improvement.

What you bring!

    • Bachelors’ Degree or equivalent
    • 15+ years of experience in software development and demonstrated engineering leadership
    • · 8+ years of experience in backend development
    • 3+ years in using Typescript and Amazon AWS
    • High level of skill in at least one general-purpose backend language and one frontend language, but willingness to work with other languages if required
    • High level of distributed system design skill
    • Creating platforms, reusable libraries, and utilities wherever applicable
    • Writing high-quality code that is modular, functional, and testable
    • Troubleshoot issues effectively in a distributed architecture
    • Communicate, collaborate and work effectively in a global environment
    • Solid analytical and reasoning skills for design, troubleshooting and root cause analysis  
    • Great communication skills with technical and non-technical teams 
    • Preferred
    • iOS or Android development experience; Swift, Kotlin and good understanding of Native mobile
    • Experience in a regulated software environment e.g. medical device, aerospace, defense, automotive
    • Experience with DICOM, HL7 or other medical data formats/protocols
$220,000 - $245,000 a year
This role has a hybrid work location arrangement. You will be required and expected to be present and work in the San Mateo office up to three (3) days per week, and as needed for department or cross-functional project meetings. On days when you are not required to be in the office, you will have the flexibility to work remotely, subject to the needs of the team and the nature of your role.


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