Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

About Vumedi :

Vumedi is the largest video education platform for doctors worldwide, dedicated to advancing medical education through innovative video-based learning. Our mission is to empower healthcare professionals by providing them with access to the latest clinical knowledge and surgical techniques from experts around the globe. We curate a vast library of high-quality educational content, enabling users to enhance their skills, stay informed about industry trends, and improve patient outcomes. We are headquartered in Oakland, CA, and have additional offices in Minneapolis, MN, and Zagreb, Croatia.

What you'll do :

We're looking for a Principal Engineer / Product Architect to lead the next evolution of VuMedi's product architecture and technical direction. This is a hands-on, high-impact role - shaping how millions of doctors discover, learn, and collaborate through intelligent, scalable systems.

You'll be both architect and builder , working directly with the CTO and engineering leaders across our US and Croatia teams to bring ambitious ideas from prototype to production.

In this role, you will :

• Architect the future of VuMedi's platform — from scalable video systems to AI-powered content discovery and personalized learning experiences.
• Prototype and build AI workflows and agents powered by LLMs (Large Language Models) to transform how doctors interact with knowledge, surface insights, and discover content.
• Work closely with Product, Data, and AI teams to build, deploy, and monitor intelligent services (classification, search relevance, personalization, summarization).
• Define architectural standards across backend, frontend, and infrastructure layers — ensuring reliability, maintainability, and scalability.
• Partner with engineering leadership to drive system migrations and modernization (Python / Django backend, React frontend, AWS infrastructure).
• Mentor engineers across pods and raise the technical bar through design reviews, prototypes, and shared best practices.
• Lead technical exploration of new tools - from vector databases and RAG frameworks to real-time video personalization - to keep VuMedi on the edge of applied AI.

This role is ideal for someone who loves to zoom out on system architecture and zoom in on code - someone who can imagine what VuMedi's platform looks like in five years, then open their editor and start building it.

Who you are :

Why Work at Vumedi :

This is a hybrid role, working 3 days a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) in our Oakland office.

Learn more about Vumedi