Principal Platform Software Engineer - Oracle Health

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of full-stack applications for the CDA platform, including modern React-based user interfaces and cloud-native backend services.
• Provide technical leadership across engineering initiatives, driving system design, architectural decisions, and implementation strategies for complex, scalable solutions.
• Collaborate closely with AI researchers, software developers, product managers, UX designers, and healthcare domain experts to define and deliver innovative solutions.
• Build responsive, accessible, and high-performing front-end applications using React, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, and modern web technologies.
• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Java, Python, or similar object-oriented programming languages.
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable microservices, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems to support AI-driven healthcare applications.
• Architect and optimize data ingestion, storage, processing, and retrieval capabilities that power intelligent healthcare workflows.
• Integrate generative AI, search technologies, and NLP capabilities to enable conversational experiences, semantic search, summarization, and decision support features.
• Design, build, and optimize data pipelines using technologies such as Kafka, Flink, RabbitMQ, and related event-driven architectures.
• Collaborate with UX and product teams to deliver intuitive user experiences and ensure seamless integration between front-end and backend systems.
• Ensure application security, privacy, and compliance through secure coding practices, access controls, encryption, and adherence to healthcare regulations.
• Lead and participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussions to maintain engineering excellence, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Mentor and guide engineers, providing technical direction, promoting best practices, and fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Drive technical initiatives across teams, identify opportunities for architectural improvements, and help resolve complex engineering challenges.
• Stay current with emerging technologies in AI, cloud computing, web development, and healthcare to drive platform innovation.

Responsibilities

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related field is required.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including significant experience in both front-end and backend application development.
• Strong experience building modern web applications using React and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Proficiency in Java, Python, or similar object-oriented programming languages for backend development.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and distributed systems.
• Proven experience in system design and software architecture, including designing scalable, reliable, highly available, and maintainable distributed systems.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs, microservices, and cloud-native applications.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with databases, data modeling, and scalable data platforms.
• Knowledge of event-driven architectures and messaging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar frameworks.
• Understanding of frontend best practices, including responsive design, state management, accessibility, performance optimization, and testing frameworks.
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience, including leading complex engineering projects, driving architectural decisions, and providing technical guidance to other engineers.
• Ability to evaluate architectural trade-offs, solve complex technical problems, and drive solutions from design through production.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions and work effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Strong problem-solving ability, ownership mindset, and passion for mentoring engineers and driving engineering excellence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building AI-powered or data-intensive applications.
• Familiarity with healthcare technologies, healthcare data standards, or regulated environments.
• Experience with modern frontend tooling and frameworks such as Redux, React Query, Next.js, Jest, Cypress, or similar technologies.
• Exposure to generative AI, large language models (LLMs), vector databases, and search technologies.
• Experience leading the architecture and delivery of large-scale, distributed, or mission-critical cloud applications.

Why Oracle Health?

• Be part of a groundbreaking initiative to modernize and automate patient-centric healthcare globally.
• Work with cutting-edge AI, cloud, and full-stack technologies to solve meaningful healthcare challenges.
• Build products that directly impact clinicians, patients, and healthcare organizations worldwide.
• Thrive in a collaborative and innovative engineering culture that values creativity, ownership, and technical excellence.
• Enjoy competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.

If you are passionate about building modern full-stack applications, leading technical innovation, and shaping the architecture of next-generation healthcare platforms, we encourage you to apply. Join us in transforming healthcare through AI, cloud innovation, and exceptional user experiences.

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Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $105,900 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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