Principal Technologist Office of the CTO
Role Overview
This is a senior-level, hands-on role as a Principal Technologist in the Office of the CTO at Clover Health, focusing on solving immediate business problems by building pragmatic software solutions, automations, and integrations. The hire will work independently or with cross-functional teams to address operational issues, acting as a technical complement to leadership and ensuring quick, effective results without overengineering. Impact includes enabling stakeholders to move forward with interim solutions that avoid technical debt and support the company's strategic focus.
Perks & Benefits
The role is remote within the USA, likely with flexible hours, though time zone expectations may align with business stakeholders. It offers a non-bureaucratic, hands-on culture that values pragmatism, autonomy, and direct impact, with opportunities for career growth through high-visibility projects and close collaboration with the CTO and CEO. Benefits may include typical tech industry perks like health insurance and professional development, though not explicitly stated.
Full Job Description
We're hiring a Principal Technologist into the Office of the CTO. This is a hands-on problem-solver role for someone who can walk into any room in the company, listen to what's broken, and ship a working solution — not a perfect one, but a good one that gets people moving.
While the CTO and CEO are building the long-term technical and strategic vision and drive the company's most transformative initiatives, your job is to handle everything that would otherwise pull them off that focus. Business stakeholders have real problems that need real solutions now — not in six months when the grand architecture is ready. You are the person who listens, scopes the pragmatic path, and builds the thing that gets them through it. You build the bicycle, not the race car.
This is not a managerial or bureaucratic role. You ship software. You build lightweight applications, automations, integrations, and workflows that solve real operational problems. You are technical, you are pragmatic, you are allergic to red tape, and you know when good enough is exactly right.
You are also a counterweight. When leadership is tempted to overengineer a solution or boil the ocean, you're the voice that says: not yet. Let me get this to decent. You come back later and make it great. You have the judgment and discipline to build interim solutions that don't become permanent technical debt.
As a Principal Technologist, Office of the CTO, you will:
Be the CTO and CEO's technical complement. Handle the problems, conversations, and stakeholder relationships that would otherwise consume their time and attention. Listen to business stakeholders — operations leaders, department VPs, cross-functional partners — understand their pain, and scope pragmatic solutions. You are effortlessly approachable and people trust you to help. Ship working solutions — sometimes personally, sometimes by marshaling the right engineers, analysts, or vendors across the department. You know when to build it yourself anPlease mention the word **STRONG** and tag RODguMTk4Ljk5LjE0Mw== when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RODguMTk4Ljk5LjE0Mw==). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.
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