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Principal Software Engineer - Authorization Platform

Pointclickcare
CompanyPointclickcare
CategoryEngineering
LocationMississauga
RemoteHybrid
EmploymentFull-time
LevelLead
SalaryCAD 156k–174k
Posted19 May 2026
Last verified30 Jul 2026
SourceEmployer career page (lever)
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Description
At PointClickCare our mission is simple: to help providers deliver exceptional care. And that starts with our people. As a leading health tech company that’s founder-led and privately held, we empower our employees to push boundaries, innovate, and shape the future of healthcare. With the largest long-term and post-acute care dataset and a Marketplace of 400+ integrated partners, our platform serves over 30,000 provider organizations, making a real difference in millions of lives. We also reinvest a significant percentage of our revenue back into research and development, ensuring our employees have the resources to innovate and make a lasting impact. Recognized by Forbes as a top private cloud company and honored as one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, we offer flexibility, growth opportunities, and meaningful work.  At PointClickCare, we empower our people to be the architects of a smarter healthcare future; one that is human-first and accelerated by AI to create meaningful and lasting change. Employees harness AI as a catalyst for creativity, productivity, and thoughtful decision-making. By integrating AI tools into our daily workflows, collaboration is enhanced, outcomes are improved, and every team member has the proficiency to maximize their impact. It all starts with our hiring practices where we uncover AI expertise that complements our mission, and we continue to invest in training and development to nurture innovation throughout the employee journey. Join us in redefining healthcare — so it doesn’t just survive, it thrives. To learn more about PointClickCare, check out Life at PointClickCare and connect with us on Glassdoor and LinkedIn. **Travel to Office expectations** For Remote Roles: If this role is remote, there will be in-office events that will require travel to and from the Mississauga and/or Salt Lake City office. These will include, but not limited to, onboarding, team events, semi-annual and annual team meetings. For Hybrid Roles: If this role is Hybrid, there will be an expectation to reside within commutable distance to the office/location specified in the job listing. This will include, but not limited to, weekly/bi-weekly/monthly events in the office with your specific team. This is a requirement for this role. About the role:   You will join a high-impact team transforming healthcare through technology. Our platform connects fragmented clinical systems to enable real-time care coordination across thousands of healthcare facilities, serving millions of users. You will design and build scalable platform services, leveraging modern AI-augmented engineering practices to accelerate delivery, improve reliability, and enhance clinical and operational outcomes.   This role specifically leads our authorization platform initiative: modernizing how we express, evaluate, and audit access decisions across a multi-tenant healthcare SaaS. You'll set the strategy for moving from scattered, application-embedded authorization logic toward a coherent, externalized authorization architecture that supports clinicians, partners, automated systems, and increasingly agentic AI workflows    What your day-to-day will look like: Build robust platform services supporting clinical operations. Partner with product and clinical teams to understand and solve real workflow challenges. Drive architectural decisions for business platform services. Own the reliability and performance of critical healthcare solutions. Mentor team members on modern engineering practices. Lead the design and rollout of an externalized authorization platform spanning RBAC, ABAC, and ReBAC models, choosing the right model for each domain (clinical data, administrative actions, cross-tenant sharing, etc.). Define our PDP / PEP / PIP / PAP architecture, including policy authoring, distribution, caching, and decision logging for audit. Extend our current homegrown authorization solution and, where it makes sense, augment
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