Senior Software Architect, Pointclickcare
Data Platform and AI
Healthcare software for smarter care delivery
Job no longer available
Healthcare software for smarter care delivery
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help providers delivery exceptional care.
Role
Who you are
- You can relate your solid experience in designing large-scale, data-driven, distributed platform systems, and collaborating with a team to support their development and deployment
- You have experience developing and deploying complex, cloud-native platforms in Azure or another public cloud provider
- You are deeply familiar with many elements of our technology stack, which includes Kubernetes, Docker, Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Avro, JavaScript, MySQL, and Gradle
- You have prior experience with high-throughput healthcare information systems using HL7 or FHIR, or analogous integrations in other domains
- You bring deep knowledge of big data ecosystem technologies and have hands-on experience building data pipelines and real-time event-driven architectures
- You understand how to design platform foundations that enable machine learning workflows, model serving, and data observability, and you’re familiar with modern AI infrastructure patterns
- You successfully manage system complexity through modularization and specification of maintainable boundaries between components
- You demonstrate exceptional analytical, planning, and diagnostic abilities
- You use active listening skills and clear communication in speaking, writing, and diagramming
- Your interpersonal skills allow you to build consensus and promote understanding and adoption of architectural strategy
- You recognize and apply object-oriented design principles, software design patterns, and architectural patterns
- You couple new research and data with your experience and intuition to find answers that are innovative yet pragmatic
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Architect, you are driven, possess a high degree of discipline, and can deliver robust solutions for complex, large-scale, and data-intensive platform systems
- You will collaborate with stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into scalable, high-performance software and platform solutions that address the whole business problem
- As a Senior Software Architect, you will drive the technical feasibility analysis for projects to identify and mitigate technical risks
- Your expertise in selecting appropriate technologies and frameworks will drive innovation and shape the overall architecture, ensuring it aligns with business and technical goals
- You will bring a deep understanding of distributed systems, real-time data processing, and platform design patterns to architect foundational components that support AI and analytics workloads at scale
- Throughout the development process, you will lead and mentor engineering teams, ensuring the successful implementation of the architectural design
- Your ability to define the strategic architecture vision will be essential in aligning the software architecture with the overall organization technology strategy, driving its success in a fast-paced competitive market
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate complex and ambiguous business requirements into robust, scalable platform and data architecture designs
- Assess the technical feasibility of new projects and help engineering teams solve their most difficult technical challenges, particularly in areas of big data pipelines, stream processing, and system scalability
- Understand and contribute to the long-term platform and data architecture strategy and teach others about it
- Design for non-functional requirements including maintainability, efficiency, scalability, observability, availability, and security
- Estimate resources required for a proposed design and optimize plans for cost, performance, or other attributes
- Help to review design proposals from others
- Produce technical documentation relating to application architecture, design steps, integration processes and testing procedures
- Research new software, tools, and practices, and provide recommendations and proofs of concept
- Stay current with advances in AI infrastructure, big data processing technologies (e.g. , Apache Spark, Kafka, Delta Lake), and modern data platform architectures
- Define best practices, patterns, and guidelines in coding and system design
- Review designs and code to ensure its compliance with best practices and coding standards
- Provide technical mentoring, guidance, and consultation to other architects and engineering teams to ensure the successful execution of software projects
- Analyze legacy code and plan for enhancements to maintainability and other non-functional requirements
Our take
The demand for long-term support for the elderly is growing, putting pressure on the already overstretched age care industry. PointClickCare aims to solve this problem by providing care providers with a suite of cutting-edge software tools.
PointClickCare's software gives caregivers access to immediate, point-of-care data insights into their patients. This is proven to improve patient outcomes, ease care transitions and improve efficiency. Having been founded in 1997, PointClickCare is now one of the biggest names in care tech and its software is used by over 30,000 care facilities.
PointClickCare has made a series of partnerships - such as with pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer, and ChartPath, a leading EHR solution for care practices - alongside acquiring the connected care platform Audacious Inquiry. These partnerships and acquisitions aim to improve its adaptability in the market. The company has demonstrated strong ambition and performance, showcased by its being named the top long-term care software provider by KLAS four times in a row.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Feb 2024
$0.1m
GRANT
Feb 2018
$141.6m
LATE VC
Total funding: $226.2m
Company HQ
Fashion District, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Dave Wessinger
(Co-Founder, CEO, CTO & President.)Dave co-founded PointClickCare in 1997.
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