Principal Software Engineer

About Lumistry

Lumistry serves over 9,000 pharmacies globally, helping them transform their businesses to improve adherence, reduce operating costs and increase revenue. We offer a collection of solutions purpose-built for pharmacies, enabling our customers to engage with their patients, consolidate vendors, improve patient health literacy, automate tasks and initiate online scheduling for programs and services. For more information, visit lumistry.com.

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled Principal Software Engineer to join the Lumistry team. In this role, you will help drive technical strategy across the entire engineering organization, as well as lead development on one of our core enterprise products that powers pharmacy care across the United States. We're actively building an AI-first engineering culture where you'll have access to best-in-class AI tools and the autonomy to shape how we adopt them. You will work cross-functionally to help ensure our platform meets the rigorous compliance and quality requirements of the healthcare industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive technical alignment across engineering teams, establishing shared patterns, platform standards, and architectural guardrails that scale beyond any single product.
• Architect scalable, maintainable solutions, with an eye toward long-term data integrity, security, and performance.
• Own end-to-end development, including web applications, backend services, data pipelines, and integrations for a core Lumistry product.
• Leverage deep use of AI coding assistants (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, etc.) as a force multiplier across the full development lifecycle and contribute to Lumistry's evolving AI-SDLC practices, helping establish team norms around effective AI tool usage.
• Help evaluate and adopt emerging AI engineering tools as the landscape evolves.
• Set and uphold engineering standards: code reviews, testing practices, documentation, and CI/CD hygiene, as well as raise the technical floor through mentorship and coaching of other engineers.
• Participate actively in architectural discussions and help the team make sound, well-reasoned technical decisions, translating complex product requirements into clear technical plans with realistic estimates.
• Collaborate with QE to define test strategies and ensure high-quality releases in our regulated environment and partner with Product, Design, and Customer Success to deliver features and support that matters.
• Partner with the security and compliance function to ensure architecture decisions account for HIPAA, SOC 2, and evolving regulatory obligations.
• Design and maintain data pipelines supporting clinical workflows, drug databases, and reporting needs.

Required Skills/Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful tenure in senior or lead roles.
• Demonstrated experience with AI-augmented development lifecycle (AI-SDLC) practices.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Windsurf) as a core part of your daily development workflow.
• Strong technical proficiency and deep, production-grade experience with Typescript/Node.js and Python/Django.
• Proficiency with React for building and maintaining frontend features.
• Expert-level MySQL skills including schema design, query optimization, indexing strategies, migrations.
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design and service-oriented architecture.
• Strong communication skills with an ability to articulate technical tradeoffs and choices.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies in GCP, AWS, or similar.
• Practical experience with data pipelines and workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow or similar.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within a secure and/or regulated environment (HIPAA, SOC 2, etc).
• Background including pharmacy, healthcare, or health-tech industry is a plus.
• Familiarity with healthcare data standards such as NDC codes, RxNorm, SNOMED, or ICD-10.

Compensation

Target salary range: $150,000–$225,000, commensurate with experience and location

Diversity & Inclusion at Lumistry

Lumistry is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to an inclusive workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, or any other characteristic protected by law.

This commitment applies to all aspects of employment, from recruiting and hiring to compensation and promotion. Our decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and current business needs.

Accessibility

We provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application and interview process. If you require assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out.