Principal Engineer

Job Location 

Bengaluru or Remote

Job Summary 

Oracle Health is seeking a Software Developer 4 with deep expertise in Java, distributed systems, and microservices to design and build highly available, secure, and scalable healthcare platforms. In this senior individual contributor role, you will drive architecture and design, lead complex technical initiatives, and mentor engineers while leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery and improve code quality. You will partner closely with product, architecture, and operations teams to deliver mission-critical solutions for healthcare providers worldwide.

Responsibilities 

• Own end-to-end design and development of complex backend services using Java and modern frameworks for Oracle Health products.
• Define and evolve microservices-based, distributed architectures with strong focus on scalability, resiliency, performance, and observability.
• Design and implement RESTful and event-driven interfaces, data processing pipelines, and integration patterns for large-scale healthcare workloads.
• Champion the use of AI-assisted development tools (code generation, refactoring, test creation, static analysis) to improve developer productivity and engineering quality.
• Provide technical leadership across feature teams: drive design reviews, code reviews, and architectural decisions.
• Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers, fostering best practices in coding, testing, automation, and DevOps.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, QA, SRE/DevOps, and cross-functional stakeholders to plan, estimate, and deliver complex releases.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues related to performance, scalability, reliability, and data integrity; lead root cause analysis and long-term fixes.
• Ensure solutions adhere to security, privacy, compliance, and regulatory requirements applicable to healthcare.
• Contribute to and help standardize shared libraries, frameworks, and platform capabilities across teams.

Required Qualifications 

• 8–12 years of professional software development experience, with a strong backend and distributed systems focus.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java (Java 8+), including OOP, concurrency, data structures, algorithms, and performance tuning.
• Proven experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems and microservices in production.
• Strong hands-on experience with Spring / Spring Boot or equivalent enterprise Java frameworks.
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design, contract management, and backward compatibility in microservices ecosystems.
• Solid experience with relational databases (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL), schema design, and ORM technologies.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and automated testing in an Agile environment.
• Practical, regular use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., advanced code completion, code generation, test suggestion, static analysis) as part of daily development workflows.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ownership of complex modules or systems from design through production support.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience influencing technical decisions across teams.

Preferred Qualifications 

• In-depth knowledge of distributed systems concepts (consistency models, fault tolerance, resiliency patterns, caching, load balancing, and observability).
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) in cloud environments.
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or other major cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and tracing tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, etc.).
• Background in healthcare, clinical systems, financial, or other regulated domains.
• Experience driving technical roadmaps, modernization initiatives, or platform migrations.
• Exposure to applying AI/ML to software engineering workflows (intelligent code search, anomaly detection in services, test optimization, or quality analytics).

About Oracle Health 

Oracle Health is transforming healthcare by delivering secure, intelligent, and scalable cloud-based solutions that improve patient outcomes and provider efficiency. As a senior engineer in the Oracle Health team, you will shape the architecture and foundation of systems that power hospitals, clinics, and health networks across the globe, leveraging Oracle’s cloud infrastructure and innovation in AI-assisted development.

Team  -Support Operations — Technical Solutions 

Level  - IC3 (4–7 years of relevant experience) 

Location  - India (Remote) IST time zone, with overlap with US East/Central teams 

Reports To -Technical Manager 

Manages -Not a people-manager role, but a lead role with real technical authority 

Employment Type -Full-time 

ABOUT DELTEK 

Deltek is the leading global provider of software and solutions for project-based businesses — serving government contractors, professional services firms, and architecture & engineering companies. Our products help customers manage the full project lifecycle, from winning work and planning resources to executing delivery and getting paid. 

The Support Operations Technical Solutions team sits inside Deltek's Customer Success organization. We build and maintain the internal tooling, integrations, and AI-powered workflows that allow Deltek's support and customer success teams to operate at scale — intelligent case routing, knowledge-base agents, data pipelines between Salesforce, Gainsight, and Oracle Service Cloud, and automation that removes manual work from high-volume support processes. 

THE ROLE 

We are looking for a Senior System Engineer to take technical ownership of our most complex solutions. This is not a management role — it is a senior individual contributor role with real architectural authority and a multiplier effect on the team around you. 

You own problems end-to-end. You design the solution before writing the first line, consider downstream impacts before committing to an approach, and hold the technical bar for the work your team delivers. You are the person a junior engineer turns to when they're stuck, and the person a business stakeholder trusts to tell them whether an idea is feasible and what it will cost to maintain. 

In your first year, you can expect to: 

• Own the end-to-end design and delivery of major integrations and AI-enabled components from architecture through deployment and post-launch stability 
• Lead solution design for the team's most complex problems using PHP, JavaScript, Workato, APIs, and Web Services 
• Evaluate technology and platform tradeoffs and make defensible, documented recommendations that balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability 
• Apply AI, automation, and agentic architectures to business problems at production scale — not as experiments, but as shipped systems 
• Anticipate performance, operational, and security risks before they reach production; design with those constraints in mind from day one 
• Set engineering standards and review the work of IC1/IC2 engineers, making them better through structured feedback and clear design expectations 
• Partner directly with CS operations leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to translate ambiguous business needs into concrete technical strategies 

This role suits an engineer who is past proving they can build things, and is now focused on building the right things in the right way — and helping others do the same. 

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR 

Must-Have Technical Skills 

• PHP and JavaScript: Production depth: You have designed and shipped non-trivial systems in these languages. You understand performance characteristics, know where the footguns are, and write code you'd be comfortable having reviewed by a senior peer. 
• Integration architecture: You have designed system-to-system integrations — not just consumed APIs. You understand data flow, transformation logic, error handling, retry strategies, and idempotency. 
• AI / LLM applied experience: You have built or led the build of AI-assisted workflows, LLM-based tools, or agentic systems in an operational or product context. You know the difference between a demo and a production-grade AI system. 
• Relational databases: Query and schema design: You write optimized SQL, design schemas with long-term maintainability in mind, and understand when a query will cause production problems before it does. 
• Full-stack troubleshooting at depth: You can diagnose complex, multi-layer issues — across front-end, API, back-end, and database — and trace the root cause without being handed a reproduction case. 
• Technical tradeoff analysis: When evaluating tools, platforms, or approaches, you can articulate the tradeoffs clearly — not just pick what you know best — and document the rationale in a way that holds up six months later. 
• Agile technical leadership: You have led technical workstreams in a sprint-based environment: broken down epics, written meaningful acceptance criteria, and been accountable for team delivery quality. 
• Documentation and design artifacts: You produce architecture diagrams, solution designs, and technical decision records that others can act on — not just notes for yourself. 

Must-Have Leadership & Soft Skills 

• Technical mentorship: You actively make the engineers around you better. Code reviews are teaching opportunities, not gatekeeping. Design reviews are conversations, not approvals. 
• Stakeholder communication: You can translate a technical constraint into a business impact, and a business requirement into a technical specification. You don't hide behind jargon or over-simplify to avoid hard conversations. 
• Ownership under ambiguity: When a problem is poorly defined, you ask the right questions to define it — then own the answer. You don't wait for complete requirements before starting to think. 
• Proactive risk management: You raise issues before they become incidents. You've learned from production failures and carry those lessons into design decisions. 
• Business context awareness: You understand how the systems you build affect end users and business operations. You've made engineering decisions informed by that context, not just by technical preference. 

Nice-to-Have Skills 

Prioritized by relevance to this team's current and near-term roadmap: 

Oracle Service Cloud 

Workato / iPaaS 

Salesforce 

Gainsight 

Agentic AI / LLM Ops 

Snowflake 

Microsoft Power BI 

Microsoft Power Apps 

Cloud-native development 

Experience designing agentic AI systems — not just integrating LLM APIs — is highly relevant to where this team is going. Candidates who have shipped multi-step agent architectures with tool-calling, memory, and guardrails will stand out. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

Design & Architecture 

• Own end-to-end technical solution design — from requirements through architecture, implementation, and post-launch stability — for the team's most complex initiatives 
• Lead solution design using PHP, JavaScript, Workato, APIs, and Web Services; ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with established governance standards 
• Evaluate tradeoffs across tools, platforms, and architectural patterns; produce documented recommendations that account for both short-term delivery needs and long-term operational cost 
• Anticipate downstream impacts, performance bottlenecks, and operational risk during the design phase — not as an afterthought in retrospect 
• Author and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and technical design documents for all major solution components 

AI, Automation & Integration 

• Apply AI, automation, and agentic architectures to complex business problems at production scale — designing for reliability, observability, and graceful failure 
• Lead the integration of AI-enabled components (LLM workflows, intelligent routing, agentic tools) into the team's operational platform 
• Design and oversee integrations between Deltek's CS platforms (Oracle Service Cloud, Salesforce, Gainsight) and internal data systems, ensuring data integrity, performance, and auditability 
• Evaluate new AI frameworks, LLM providers, and automation platforms; provide grounded, implementation-level recommendations rather than theoretical assessments 

Technical Leadership & Mentoring 

• Serve as the primary technical reviewer for IC1/IC2 engineers — conducting structured code and design reviews that build capability, not just ship code 
• Break down complex initiatives into well-scoped workstreams that junior engineers can execute with confidence and appropriate independence 
• Establish and enforce engineering standards: code quality, documentation, testing coverage, deployment practices, and incident response 
• Identify skill gaps in the team and work with the manager to address them through pairing, documentation, or structured learning 

Stakeholder & Cross-functional Engagement 

• Translate ambiguous business and operational requirements from CS leadership into concrete technical strategies with clear milestones and measurable outcomes 
• Engage directly with senior stakeholders — CS operations leads, product owners, IT — to align on priorities, surface risks, and manage technical expectations 
• Represent the technical perspective of the team in cross-functional planning and architecture discussions 

Operate & Improve 

• Own post-launch stability of solutions you design: monitor, respond to incidents, and drive root-cause resolution — not just resolution 
• Drive continuous improvement of the team's delivery practices: identify process friction, propose solutions, and follow through on implementation 
• Stay current on AI, automation, and integration technology evolution; bring relevant advances back to the team with a concrete point of view on applicability 

QUALIFICATIONS 

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or a related technical discipline. Equivalent demonstrated experience considered. 
• Experience: 4–7 years of hands-on experience in software engineering, systems integration, or closely related work, with at least 2 years at a level where you have owned technical design decisions — not just implemented them. 
• Coding evidence: A portfolio, GitHub profile, architecture document, or production system you can speak to in depth. At IC3, we expect you to be able to walk through a non-trivial design decision you made and defend the tradeoffs. 
• AI / ML: Practical, production-level experience with LLMs or AI tooling — not just prompt engineering or personal experimentation. Familiarity with frameworks such as LangChain, OpenAI APIs, or similar platforms is a strong plus. 
• Collaboration model: Comfortable working as a technical authority in a distributed team. The role requires regular IST overlap with US East/Central stakeholders (approximately 6:30 PM – 10:30 PM IST for at least part of the week). 
• Language: Strong written and spoken English. At IC3, much of your influence operates through written design documents, async reviews, and stakeholder communications. Precision in writing matters. 

WHAT TO EXPECT WORKING HERE 

• Technical authority with real impact — your design decisions ship to production and affect how thousands of Deltek customers experience support 
• Exposure to production AI/agentic systems and direct involvement in shaping where the team's AI roadmap goes next 
• A team where senior engineers are trusted to lead, not managed step-by-step — you will have autonomy commensurate with your accountability 
• Structured growth path: IC3 engineers who demonstrate architectural leadership and cross-functional influence have a clear track toward Staff or Associate Director scope 
• Regular 1:1s, design review forums, and a manager who will invest in your growth rather than just your output 

Required Skills: CI/CD Pipeline, Data Structures, Microservices, Determining overall architectural principles, frameworks and standards, Cloud expertise (AWS, GCP, or Azure), Distributed Systems

Criteria:

• Candidate must have 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with 1–2 years leading engineers or owning major systems.
• Candidate must be from a product-based organization with a startup mindset
• Must be strong in one core backend language: Node.js, Go, Java, or Python.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, caching, high availability, and microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience with AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong command over system design, data structures, performance tuning, and scalable architecture
• Ability to partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, and lead end-to-end backend roadmap execution.

Description

What This Role Is All About

We’re looking for a Backend Tech Lead who’s equally obsessed with architecture decisions and clean code, someone who can zoom out to design systems and zoom in to fix that one weird memory leak. You’ll lead a small but sharp team, drive the backend roadmap, and make sure our systems stay fast, lean, and battle-tested.

What You’ll Own

● Architect backend systems that handle India-scale traffic without breaking a sweat.

● Build and evolve microservices, APIs, and internal platforms that our entire app depends on.

● Guide, mentor, and uplevel a team of backend engineers—be the go-to technical brain.

● Partner with Product, Data, and Infra to ship features that are reliable and delightful.

● Set high engineering standards—clean architecture, performance, automation, and testing.

● Lead discussions on system design, performance tuning, and infra choices.

● Keep an eye on production like a hawk: metrics, monitoring, logs, uptime.

● Identify gaps proactively and push for improvements instead of waiting for fires.

What Makes You a Great Fit

● 6+ years of backend experience; 1–2 years leading engineers or owning major systems.

● Strong in one core language (Node.js / Go / Java / Python) — pick your sword.

● Deep understanding of distributed systems, caching, high-availability, and microservices.

● Hands-on with AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines.

● You think data structures and system design are not interviews — they’re daily tools.

● You write code that future-you won’t hate.

● Strong communication and a let’s figure this out attitude.

Bonus Points If You Have

● Built or scaled consumer apps with millions of DAUs.

● Experimented with event-driven architecture, streaming systems, or real-time pipelines.

● Love startups and don’t mind wearing multiple hats.

● Experience on logging/monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, OpenTelemetry.

Why company Might Be Your Best Move

● Work on products used by real people every single day.

● Ownership from day one—your decisions will shape our core architecture.

● No unnecessary hierarchy; direct access to founders and senior leadership.

● A team that cares about quality, speed, and impact in equal measure.

● Build for Bharat — complex constraints, huge scale, real impact.

Responsibilities:

• Lead simultaneous development for multiple business verticals.
• Design & develop highly scalable, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Ensure that exceptional standards are maintained in all aspects of engineering.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to learn and share best practices.
• Take ownership of technical performance metrics and strive actively to improve them.
• Mentors junior members of the team and contributes to code reviews.

Requirements:

• A passion to solve tough engineering/data challenges.
• Be well versed with cloud computing platforms AWS/GCP
• Experience with SQL technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience working with NoSQL technologies (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
• Excellent Programming skills in Python/Java/GoLang
• Big Data streaming services (Kinesis, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Distributed cache systems(Redis, Memcache)
• Advanced data solutions(BigQuery, RedShift, DynamoDB, Cassandra)
• Automated testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure orchestration(Docker/Kubernetes/Nginx)
• Cloud-native tech like Lambda, ASG, CDN, ELB, SNS/SQS, S3 Route53 SES

Responsibilities:

 Develop and maintain high-quality, scalable, and efficient Java codebase for our ad-serving platform.

 Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, and other developers to

understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

 Design and implement new features and functionalities in the ad-serving system, focusing on performance

optimization and reliability.

 Troubleshoot and debug complex issues in the ad server environment, providing timely resolutions to ensure

uninterrupted service.

 Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and enforce coding best practices to maintain code quality

and consistency across the platform.

 Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends in ad serving and digital advertising, and integrate

relevant innovations into our platform.

 Work closely with DevOps and infrastructure teams to deploy and maintain the ad-serving platform in a cloud- based environment.

 Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, define technical specifications, and estimate development

efforts for new projects and features.

 Mentor junior developers, sharing knowledge and best practices to foster a culture of continuous learning and

improvement within the development team.

 Participate in on-call rotations and provide support for production issues as needed, ensuring maximum uptime

and reliability of the ad-serving platform.

• 3-8+ years of experience programming in a backend language (Java / Python), with a good understanding of troubleshooting errors. 
• 5+ years of experience in Confluent Kafka / 3+ years of experience in Confluent Kafka 

• Cloud Kafka, Control Central, Rest Proxy, HA Proxy, Confluent Kafka Connect, Confluent Kafka Security features 

• Work experience as Python developer
• Should have experience in  developing and working on consumer facing web/app products on in Django framework
• Should have experience working with react js front end design.
• Thorough knowledge of data stores, MyScore AWS services and should have experience with EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
• Experience in Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS and Javascript
• Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating Systems
• Good experience of developing and integrating APIs
• Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system (mysql)
• Understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tool (git)
• Good problem-solving skills

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• 3-5 years of work experience in the development background, with at least 2 years experience in Java, Spring, Sprint Boot, Hibernate or JPA, MySQL, Oracle, Spring MVC.
• B.E. degree in Computer Science, Graduate in Software Engineering or equivalent
• Experience in Core JAVA, Spring, Spring Boot Frameworks.
• Experience with ORM's like Hibernate.
• Good knowledge of developing RESTful web services using Spring Boot, Java1.x,Servlet2.4, JSP2.0, JDBC3.0, Java Mail, Struts2.x, HTML, HTML5, Angular7+, JavaScript, JSF, Bootstrap2.x-3.x, JQuery & CSS 3.x, Maven 3.x, Apache Tomcat7
• Knowledge of Cloud AWS.
• Experience in any Messaging Queue e.g. Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, etc.
• Experience on Web services with REST and SOAP.
• Experience working on tool set like Eclipse IDE, SQL clients.
• Experience using application server like Jboss, TomCat, Wildfly, glassfish.
• Experience in using tools like SOAP UI, POSTMAN
• Ability to write SQL queries to fetch data.
• Knowledge of Micro services, Redis Cache and Mongo DB (or any other NoSQL) is good to have