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# Principal Software Engineer at HHAeXchange

- **Company:** HHAeXchange
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/hhaexchange/334a6d25-85e9-40bb-9d62-1f95ea8ed72b

## Job description

HHAeXchange is the leading technology platform for home and community-based care. Founded in 2008, HHAeXchange was born out of an idea to create a fully comprehensive end-to-end homecare solution to help people who are aging or have disabilities thrive in their homes and communities. Our employees are passionate about transforming the healthcare space by building the only homecare ecosystem that fully connects patients, personal care providers, managed care organizations, and states.

The Principal Software Engineer will play a critical role in the design, development, and evolution of our customer-facing analytics, ML, and AI applications and data platforms. As a key leader of our engineering team, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to guide the technical strategy, deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions. You will also mentor junior engineers, provide technical oversight, and ensure the team is aligned with the overall strategic vision.You are responsible for ensuring that all software developed by one or more teams at HHA meets our standards for quality, performance, scalability, availability and security by working alongside team members to develop innovative solutions to customer problems.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This is a fully remote opportunity for candidates located in the EST or CST time zones within the US only.

Essential Job Duties

- Hands-on Development: Contribute directly to the development of key platform features and components as an individual contributor, ensuring alignment with overall project goals.
- Leadership in Design: Lead the end-to-end design and development of advanced healthcare analytics products, ensuring they are insightful, intuitive, scalable, reliable, secure, and high-performing.
- Architect Healthcare Analytics Solutions: Architect and implement modern analytics, ML and AI applications that support mission-critical business decision-making, workflows and customer experiences.
- Team Enablement and Prioritization: Clearly communicate priorities and expectations to the team, ensuring they have the support and resources to complete their work effectively.
- Quality Ownership: Take full ownership of the quality of all team-delivered features, ensuring they meet both functional and non-functional requirements with well-thought-out designs.
- Drive Architectural Innovation: Identify gaps or areas for improvement in existing patterns. Promote a culture of experimentation and innovation by encouraging the exploration of new technologies, tools, and methodologies that can drive competitive advantages.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the primary technical liaison for executive stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment between engineering and business strategies.
- Risk Management: Identify potential technical risks early in the development lifecycle and implement strategies to mitigate them, ensuring that projects remain on track and within scope.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to define project scope, assess feasibility, and translate business needs into robust technical solutions.
- Technical Mentorship: Act as a senior technical resource, providing guidance, mentorship, and leadership to engineering teams, cultivating a culture of innovation, accountability, and excellence.
- Stay Ahead of Industry Trends: Continuously monitor emerging healthcare technologies and trends, recommending cutting-edge solutions to maintain a competitive edge.

Other Job Duties

- Other duties as assigned by supervisor or HHAeXchange leader.

Travel Requirements

- Travel up to 10%, including overnight travel

Required Education, Experience, Certifications and Skills

- B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or similar field, or a related field, or equivalent significant industry experience.
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering and/or data engineering within a software product company, with a focus on developing insightful, scalable, high-performance analytics applications and systems.
- Extensive experience architecting, building and delivering complex, high-performance SaaS solutions deployed in cloud environments (AWS or similar) using microservices and serverless architectures.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in the healthcare industry, particularly in developing products for healthcare analytics products.
- 5+ years of experience architecting and delivering applications with significant responsibility across both frontend, backend and data platform development.
- Proficient in modern programming languages such as Java, C#, and Python (preferred), with experience in building and maintaining high volume production-grade solutions.
- Solid understanding of database systems and data warehouses: relational (SQL Server, PostgreSQL), NoSQL, Snowflake and Redshift.
- Proven expertise in modern frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue.js, or similar technologies.
- Hands-on experience with data analytics, AI/ML integrations, generative AI, LLMs, agentic workflows, and AI-assisted software development tools.
- Proven leadership skills with experience mentoring and guiding engineering teams, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a track record of delivering innovative, practical solutions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

The base salary range for this US-based, full-time, and exempt position is $165,000-180,000/yr, not including variable compensation. An employee’s exact starting salary will be based on various factors including but not limited to experience, education, training, merit, location, and the ability to exemplify the HHAeXchange core values.

This is a benefits-eligible position. HHAeXchange offers competitive health plans, paid time-off, company paid holidays, 401K retirement program with a Company elected match, including other company sponsored programs.

HHAeXchange is an equal-opportunity employer. The Company offers employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, citizenship, genetic information, hairstyles, or any other status protected by local or federal law.

## About HHAeXchange

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: HHAeXchange provides a homecare management software platform that connects providers, payers, and members to streamline Medicaid long-term services and supports (LTSS).
- **Entity Type**: Private (Private Equity‑backed; last round led by Hg in 2021)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA
- **Founded**: 2008
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Healthcare IT, Homecare Management Software, Medicaid LTSS Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – homecare agencies, managed care organizations (MCOs), state Medicaid programs, and self‑direction service providers
- **Mission / purpose**: “Help make homecare better for everyone” by enabling aging and disabled individuals to thrive in their homes and communities

## Products & Services
- **HHAeXchange Platform** (SaaS): End‑to‑end homecare management solution covering scheduling, billing, EVV (Electronic Visit Verification), compliance, and analytics. Acts as a single source of truth connecting providers, payers, and members.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of **$35.4M** (latest estimate); total funding not publicly itemized across multiple PE rounds (led by Wincove, Cressey & Company, Hg)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Hg (lead in 2021), Wincove (2014), Cressey & Company (acquired majority stake in 2019). Partners include HCP (integration partnership announced 2022).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Named to Inc. 5000 list of fastest‑growing private companies for ten consecutive years
  - Headcount grew ~21.6% YoY (453 employees per LinkedIn data; Built In reports 502)
  - Aggressive acquisition strategy: acquired Cashé Software (Jun 2024), Generations Homecare System (Jul 2024), and Sandata (Oct 2024)
  - Expanded executive team with new CHRO and CRO in early 2025

## Competitive Advantages
- **End‑to‑end coverage**: Only platform that fully integrates provider, payer, and member workflows for Medicaid LTSS – a complete view not offered by many competitors.
- **Network effects**: Large installed base (thousands of agencies, multiple state Medicaid programs) creates switching costs and data network effects.
- **Regulatory alignment**: Deep expertise in EVV and Medicaid compliance, making the platform “sticky” for government‑contracted providers.
- **Recent acquisitions**: Adding self‑direction (Annkissam), billing (Cashé), and broader homecare capabilities (Generations, Sandata) to widen the moat.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue expanding through M&A to build the most comprehensive homecare management ecosystem.
- Enhance data insights and interoperability across payers, providers, and state systems.
- Scale headcount and go‑to‑market capabilities (notably adding sales and customer success roles).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes core values **Achieve, Grow, Collaborate, Support**. Offers on‑the‑spot rewards, mental health initiatives, cultural celebrations, and employee inclusion events.
- **Work policy**: Primarily on‑site (New York HQ, plus offices in Miami, Minneapolis, Frisco, TX). Some roles posted as “In‑Office or Remote” – check specific listings.
- **Benefits**: Performance bonuses, generous parental leave, dental/health insurance, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), tuition assistance, and diversity‑based Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).
- **Engineering culture**: Growing tech team (99 technical staff) with stack including Ruby on Rails; opportunities to work on platform data insights and integration projects.
- **Impact**: Directly improve the lives of aging and disabled individuals – a mission‑driven environment.
- **Recent employee ratings** (242 reviews): Overall 2.8/5.0 (Work‑Life 2.8, Compensation 3.1, Culture 2.7, Career 2.6) – indicates room for improvement, but typical for a fast‑growing PE‑backed company.

## Sources
1. [HHAeXchange Careers Page (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/hhaexchange)
2. [HHAeXchange Official Careers Page](https://www.hhaexchange.com/careers)
3. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/hhaexchange)
4. [Built In NYC Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/hhaexchange)

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