PointClickCare is hiring a Principal Software Engineer Big Data Java in Mississauga!
PointClickCare, a privately held health-tech company serving long-term and post-acute care providers across North America, is hiring a Principal Software Engineer with a Big Data and Java focus for its Mississauga location. The position sits at the intersection of hands-on engineering and technical leadership: the successful candidate will shape a large-scale, microservices-based data platform and the batch and streaming pipelines that feed it, while mentoring colleagues and steering the team's technical direction. This is an individual-contributor role with real influence, aimed at someone comfortable navigating ambiguity and turning business goals into delivered systems. The company emphasizes a human-first culture accelerated by AI tooling, and expects employees to make AI part of their daily workflow. The posting carries a remote designation, though the employer notes that remote staff must travel to the Mississauga and Salt Lake City offices for onboarding, team gatherings, and semi-annual or annual meetings.
Key responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable distributed systems built on Java microservices
- Build and tune data pipelines using Apache Hudi, Apache Trino, and Azure ADLS
- Partner with product, analytics, and AI groups so that data functions as a strategic asset
- Push forward modernization work, including event-driven and cloud-native adoption
- Set standards for data governance, observability, and performance tuning of data workloads
- Embed data quality in pipelines through schema contracts, transformation tests, assertions, backward-compatible schema evolution, and automated freshness, completeness, and accuracy checks
- Instrument streaming jobs with metrics, logging, and distributed tracing; define latency and throughput SLAs and SLOs and wire up alerting and dashboards
- Support delivery inside a Scrum team and strengthen quality culture through peer review
Key requirements
- Roughly 10+ years in software or data engineering, with at least 4 years concentrated on batch and streaming pipelines
- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and mentor engineers while remaining a hands-on contributor on complex, high-scale work
- Strong grounding in event-driven architecture and distributed systems, with practical experience building resilient low-latency pipelines
- Hands-on cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerized deployment of data workloads
- Data quality and CI/CD fluency: schema management, automated testing, and frameworks such as dbt or Great Expectations
- Operational experience with observability tooling, metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting for pipelines
- Knowledge of data governance and performance optimization across batch and streaming
- Lakehouse experience with Apache Hudi, Azure ADLS Gen2, HDFS, plus tools such as Trino, Databricks, or Spark
- Strong communication and stakeholder influence skills
- Seniority: Principal
- Work mode: Remote (with required travel to Mississauga and/or Salt Lake City offices for onboarding and team events)
- Key skills: Java, microservices, Apache Hudi, Apache Trino, Azure ADLS Gen2, Apache Spark, Databricks, HDFS, event-driven architecture, data pipelines, streaming, data quality, dbt, Great Expectations, observability
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