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# Principal Software Engineer - Big Data & Java at PointClickCare

- **Company:** PointClickCare
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $183k–$203k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-01-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/pointclickcare/27ea212e-092c-4567-bb56-fc17a71fcc4c

## Job description

At PointClickCare our mission is simple: to help providers deliver exceptional care. And that starts with our people. As a leading health tech company that’s founder-led and privately held, we empower our employees to push boundaries, innovate, and shape the future of healthcare.

With the largest long-term and post-acute care dataset and a Marketplace of 400+ integrated partners, our platform serves over 30,000 provider organizations, making a real difference in millions of lives. We also reinvest a significant percentage of our revenue back into research and development, ensuring our employees have the resources to innovate and make a lasting impact. Recognized by Forbes as a top private cloud company and honored as one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, we offer flexibility, growth opportunities, and meaningful work.

At PointClickCare, we empower our people to be the architects of a smarter healthcare future; one that is human-first and accelerated by AI to create meaningful and lasting change. Employees harness AI as a catalyst for creativity, productivity, and thoughtful decision-making. By integrating AI tools into our daily workflows, collaboration is enhanced, outcomes are improved, and every team member has the proficiency to maximize their impact. It all starts with our hiring practices where we uncover AI expertise that complements our mission, and we continue to invest in training and development to nurture innovation throughout the employee journey.

Join us in redefining healthcare — so it doesn’t just survive, it thrives. To learn more about PointClickCare, check out Life at PointClickCare and connect with us on Glassdoor and LinkedIn.

**Travel to Office expectations** For Remote Roles: If this role is remote, there will be in-office events that will require travel to and from the Mississauga and/or Salt Lake City office. These will include, but not limited to, onboarding, team events, semi-annual and annual team meetings.

For Hybrid Roles: If this role is Hybrid, there will be an expectation to reside within commutable distance to the office/location specified in the job listing. This will include, but not limited to, weekly/bi-weekly/monthly events in the office with your specific team. This is a requirement for this role.

PointClickCare is searching for a Principal Software Data Engineer who will contribute to all phases of the software development life cycle, and will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining large scale Data Platform and data pipelines based on microservices architecture, while also encouraging and optimizing the daily execution of technical excellence across an empowered team. This is a hands-on leadership role, requiring the ability to enhance and implement batch and real-time data solutions already in progress, mentor other team members, and deliver both business and technical objectives through ambiguity and uncertainty. This is an opportunity to shape the future of our data ecosystem. You’ll work with a passionate team and modern technologies to drive innovation that impacts the entire organization. The ideal candidate thrives as an individual contributor, while making a significant technical impact and elevating the team’s capabilities.

To succeed as a Principal Software Data 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: -Lead and guide the design and implementation of scalable distributed systems based on Java microservices -Engineer and optimize data pipelines using solutions like Apache Hudi, Apache Trino, Azure ADLS -Collaborate cross-functionally with product, analytics, and AI teams to ensure data is a strategic asset -Advance ongoing modernization efforts, deepening adoption of event-driven architectures and cloud-native technologies -Drive adoption of best practices in data governance, observability, and performance tuning for data workloads -Embed data quality in processing pipelines by defining schema contracts, implementing transformation tests and data assertions, enforcing backward-compatible schema evolution, and automating checks for freshness, completeness, and accuracy across batch and streaming paths before production deployment -Establish robust observability for data pipelines by implementing metrics, logging, and distributed tracing for streaming jobs, defining SLAs and SLOs for latency and throughput, and integrating alerting and dashboards to enable proactive monitoring and rapid incident response -Foster a culture of quality through peer reviews, providing constructive feedback and seeking input on your own work

What qualifications we’re looking for: -Principal Software Data Engineer with at least 10 years of professional experience in software or data engineering, including a minimum of 4 years focused on data pipelines (batch and streaming) -Proven experience driving technical direction and mentoring engineers while delivering complex, high-scale solutions as a hands-on contributor -Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and distributed systems, with hands-on experience implementing resilient, low-latency pipelines -Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerized deployments for data workloads -Fluency in data quality practices and CI/CD integration, including schema management, automated testing, and validation frameworks (e.g., dbt, Great Expectations) -Operational excellence in observability, with experience implementing metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting for data pipelines using modern tools -Solid foundation in data governance and performance optimization, ensuring reliability and scalability across batch and streaming environments -Proven experience with Lakehouse architectures and related technologies, including Apache Hudi, Azure ADLS Gen2, HDFS, and other big data technologies (Trino, Databricks, Spark) -Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and evangelize modern data practices within your team and organization.

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## About PointClickCare

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: PointClickCare provides a cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) and care collaboration platform for senior living, skilled nursing, and post-acute care providers, serving as North America’s #1 senior care EHR.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Late Stage)
- **Headquarters**: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- **Founded**: 2000
- **Founders**: Mike Wessinger and Dave Wessinger

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare IT – specifically electronic health records (EHR), care coordination, and value-based care solutions for long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) and senior living.
- **Target customers**: B2B – skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities, continuing care retirement communities, acute care hospitals, health plans, and other post-acute providers.
- **Mission / Purpose**: To make healthcare more connected, efficient, and insight-driven by transforming how care is planned, delivered, and paid for – ultimately improving outcomes for millions of patients.

## Products & Services
- **PointClickCare EHR**: Industry-leading, integrated electronic health record for senior living and long-term care, with purpose-built workflows for move-in, service delivery, billing, and clinical documentation.
- **AI-Informed Healthcare**: Proprietary AI model trained on the largest LTPAC dataset in North America to identify high-risk patients, reduce readmissions, and streamline care coordination using predictive, chart-level insights.
- **Intelligent Transitions**: Tools that use billions of patient data points to provide care teams with proactive, actionable insights for optimizing patient transitions across acute and post-acute settings.
- **Reimbursable Outcomes**: Advanced analytics that connect clinical outcomes to reimbursement, helping providers and payers improve quality scores, meet value-based care goals, and navigate financial complexities.
- **PointClickCare Marketplace**: An ecosystem of 400+ integrated third-party partners that allows organizations to customize and extend their care platform.

*Each product is a SaaS offering, delivered as part of a unified cloud platform.*

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $4 billion as of the latest reported round ([Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/pointclickcare/__HQJYcaarZQgBhkk16un5Vwr98WSt4aEIr6x0wRz22YY))
- **Total Funding**: $283 million raised across 5 rounds; notable investors include **Dragoneer Investment Group** and **Hellman & Friedman** ([Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/pointclickcare/__HQJYcaarZQgBhkk16un5Vwr98WSt4aEIr6x0wRz22YY))
- **Key Metric**: Trusted by more than **30,000 provider organizations**; serves every major US health plan; network accounts for **700M+ total patient visits**; **#1 senior care EHR in North America** ([PointClickCare](https://pointclickcare.com/company/about-us/))
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Acquired three companies in recent years: **American HealthTech** (2024), **Patient Pattern** (2023), and **Audacious Inquiry** (2022) to expand capabilities in AI, health data exchange, and revenue cycle management ([Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/pointclickcare/__HQJYcaarZQgBhkk16un5Vwr98WSt4aEIr6x0wRz22YY))
  - Recognized as a **Forbes top 100 private cloud company** ([PointClickCare](https://pointclickcare.com/company/about-us/))
  - Employee count of **1,500** as of March 2025 ([Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/pointclickcare/__HQJYcaarZQgBhkk16un5Vwr98WSt4aEIr6x0wRz22YY))
- **Annual Revenue**: Not publicly available (private company).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest LTPAC dataset in North America** – Powers a proprietary AI model that delivers predictive, chart-level insights unmatched by competitors.
- **Network effects** – A vast, integrated ecosystem of 400+ partners and connections to every major US health plan creates high switching costs and deep data interoperability.
- **20+ years of founder-led innovation** (independent since 2000), with deep domain expertise in senior care and post-acute value-based care.
- **#1 senior care EHR** brand recognition and trust among 30,000+ provider organizations.

## Strategic Focus
- **Value-based care enablement**: Helping providers and payers improve outcomes while navigating value-based reimbursement models through analytics and intelligent transitions.
- **AI-first innovation**: Expanding the use of proprietary AI to reduce clinician administrative burden, identify high-risk patients, and optimize care coordination.
- **Platform expansion**: Growing the marketplace and integration ecosystem to become the operating system for the entire LTPAC continuum.
- **Continued M&A**: Pursuing strategic acquisitions to broaden functionality (clinical AI, revenue cycle, health data exchange) and geographic footprint.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Inclusion**: Emphasizes a culture of belonging through an **Allyship & Inclusion Community** and values diverse backgrounds and perspectives ([Life at PointClickCare](https://pointclickcare.com/life-at-pointclickcare/))
- **Work Flexibility**: Offers **flex work and time off** with a hybrid model to support work-life balance ([Life at PointClickCare](https://pointclickcare.com/life-at-pointclickcare/))
- **Learning & Growth**: Provides continuous learning opportunities and career development resources, including internship and co-op programs for students ([Life at PointClickCare](https://pointclickcare.com/life-at-pointclickcare/))
- **Competitive Benefits**: Competitive compensation, incentives, recognition programs, and rewards ([Life at PointClickCare](https://pointclickcare.com/life-at-pointclickcare/))
- **Impactful Mission**: Work on technology that directly improves the quality of care for millions of seniors and patients across North America.
- **Headcount**: 1,500 employees as of March 2025, indicating a scaling organization with room for career growth.

## Sources
1. [PointClickCare About Us](https://pointclickcare.com/company/about-us/)
2. [Life at PointClickCare](https://pointclickcare.com/life-at-pointclickcare/)
3. [PointClickCare Careers on Lever](https://jobs.lever.co/pointclickcare)
4. [Tracxn Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/pointclickcare/__HQJYcaarZQgBhkk16un5Vwr98WSt4aEIr6x0wRz22YY)
5. [PointClickCare Main Site](https://pointclickcare.com/)

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