[Remote] Principal Engineer-Healthcare AI & Cloud (Python with GKE/GCP)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vaiticka Solution is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead a high-impact healthcare AI engagement. This role involves defining technical direction, making key decisions, and providing hands-on technical leadership while collaborating closely with client stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end technical ownership of a healthcare AI platform built on GCP — from system design through production deployment
• Hands-on delivery — you write code, review code, and set the standard for what good looks like on this engagement
• R&D leadership — evaluate and prototype AI/ML applicability to clinical workflows; separate signal from noise on what is worth building
• Architecture decisions — microservices design, data flow, API contracts, cloud infrastructure, and integration patterns across the stack
• Technical coaching — onshore team primarily, with potential offshore coordination; lead by doing, not by directing
• Client partnership — serve as the technical face of the engagement; translate between engineering reality and clinical/business need with credibility on both sides

Skills

• Strong 13 to 18 years of software engineering experience, with the last several at principal, staff, or senior lead level
• Build and ship Java and/or Python microservices on GCP — from design through production
• Work with GKE for containerized deployments — you manage your own workloads
• Integrate event-driven data flows using Kafka or Pub/Sub for real-time clinical data
• Write clean, testable, production-grade code — unit, integration, and contract tested
• You have built systems from the ground up — not inherited and maintained them
• You are still hands-on by choice — architecture without implementation feels incomplete to you
• You have worked in or adjacent to regulated industries — healthcare, fintech, or government
• Collaborate directly with client stakeholders to understand clinical workflows and translate them into technical solutions
• You have a track record of making mid and junior engineers better — not by managing them but by working alongside them at a standard worth following
• EST or CST home base strongly preferred

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